Very sad news today, Paca 44 which we've been tracking has died. The people out day tracking came back to say that the signal had become a lot faster which means that the collar hasn't moved in 12 hours, suggesting that the Paca is dead. Bart drove down and we took some radio recievers out to track it down and retrieve the collar. Found it dead inside its burrow. Sow we now only have one Paca to radio track, but we should be opening more traps tomorrow so hopefully will catch some more animals to track. Spent the rest of the day inputting data from previous tracking.
Had an interesting evening yesterday, after dinner we settled down into the lobby bit outside the boys dorm which we sue to sit in and play cards. Except this time Sophie spotted a very large tarantula on the wall centimetres behind Andrews head..... cue a lot of screaming and running to the opposite side of the room! Andrew managed to catch it ina pringle box but it managed to escape and ran over Sophies foot...... cue even more screaming! Eventually Zoe and Ed managed to catch it and released it far away. That's the second tarantula we've had plus one scorpion, just a reminder that we are living in the middle of the jungle but a bit scary none the less.