{"id":25861,"date":"2024-04-18T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/?p=25861"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:28:25","slug":"tropical-wildlife-ecology-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/news\/2024\/04\/tropical-wildlife-ecology-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Wildlife Ecology in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Christopher Moorman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over spring break, 14 students, including 13 from Forestry and Environmental Resources, traveled to Ecuador for a 10-day trip to experience the country\u2019s natural history and culture. The trip was a key part of the Tropical Wildlife Ecology<\/em> course (FW 405\/595) taught by Dr. Chris Moorman every other year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students visited an Achuar community in the remote Amazon region and were able to purchase pottery, jewelry, and other handmade items from local artisans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While in Ecuador, the class toured the capital city of Quito and visited the equator, traveled to the p\u00e1ramo<\/em> biome famous for Andean condors, spent 3 days in the Andean cloud forest, and flew into the remote Amazon for a 3-day stay at the Kapawi Ecolodge owned and operated by the Achuar indigenous people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students gained experience operating mist nets to capture tropical birds in the Andean cloud forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The group mist netted for 2 days at San Isidro Ecolodge in cloud forest, catching many birds including a southern emerald toucanet and 5 species of hummingbirds. Students put out camera traps at San Isidro and captured 2 Andean tapirs and 3 tiger cats (oncillas), including a melanistic individual. Camera trap captures at Kapawi amazingly included a jaguar and a puma, both within several hundred meters of the ecolodge where we stayed. The group took several boat rides along a tributary of the Pastaza River to see pink river dolphins, a capybara, and parrots and macaws at a clay lick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students traversed the Capahuari and Pastaza Rivers by boat, in search of pink river dolphins, monkeys, and a wide array of birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A highlight of the trip was the opportunity to visit a local Achuar community to learn about the people, food, and culture. While there, we spoke with a community leader, drank the house chicha, and competed in a blow dart competition. Other highlights from the trip were sightings of an Andean tapir, a spectacled caiman, a brown-throated 3-toed sloth mother and young, 6 species of monkey, a rare blue caecilian, and over 220 bird species. The experience created memories that will not soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students deployed camera traps in the cloud forest and Amazon and captured an Andean tapir, a puma, and a jaguar (can you see it?).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n

By: Christopher Moorman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over spring break, 14 students, including 13 from Forestry and Environmental Resources, traveled to Ecuador for a 10-day trip to experience the country\u2019s natural history and culture. The trip was a key part of the Tropical Wildlife Ecology<\/em> course (FW 405\/595) taught by Dr. Chris Moorman every other year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Students visited an Achuar community in the remote Amazon region and were able to purchase pottery, jewelry, and other handmade items from local artisans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While in Ecuador, the class toured the capital city of Quito and visited the equator, traveled to the p\u00e1ramo<\/em> biome famous for Andean condors, spent 3 days in the Andean cloud forest, and flew into the remote Amazon for a 3-day stay at the Kapawi Ecolodge owned and operated by the Achuar indigenous people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Students gained experience operating mist nets to capture tropical birds in the Andean cloud forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The group mist netted for 2 days at San Isidro Ecolodge in cloud forest, catching many birds including a southern emerald toucanet and 5 species of hummingbirds. Students put out camera traps at San Isidro and captured 2 Andean tapirs and 3 tiger cats (oncillas), including a melanistic individual. Camera trap captures at Kapawi amazingly included a jaguar and a puma, both within several hundred meters of the ecolodge where we stayed. The group took several boat rides along a tributary of the Pastaza River to see pink river dolphins, a capybara, and parrots and macaws at a clay lick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students traversed the Capahuari and Pastaza Rivers by boat, in search of pink river dolphins, monkeys, and a wide array of birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A highlight of the trip was the opportunity to visit a local Achuar community to learn about the people, food, and culture. While there, we spoke with a community leader, drank the house chicha, and competed in a blow dart competition. Other highlights from the trip were sightings of an Andean tapir, a spectacled caiman, a brown-throated 3-toed sloth mother and young, 6 species of monkey, a rare blue caecilian, and over 220 bird species. The experience created memories that will not soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students deployed camera traps in the cloud forest and Amazon and captured an Andean tapir, a puma, and a jaguar (can you see it?).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Christopher Moorman Over spring break, 14 students, including 13 from Forestry and Environmental Resources, traveled to Ecuador for a 10-day trip to experience the country\u2019s natural history and culture. The trip was a key part of the Tropical Wildlife Ecology course (FW 405\/595) taught by Dr. Chris Moorman every other year. While in Ecuador,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":25862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[78,33],"class_list":["post-25861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-fwcb","tag-undergraduate"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25869,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions\/25869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}