Did you know that northern tamanduas may eat up to 9,000 insects per day? Candid Animal Cam
by Romina Castagnino on 14 April 2021
Every two weeks, Mongabay brings you a new episode of Candid Animal Cam, our show featuring animals caught on camera traps around the world and hosted by Romi Castagnino, our writer and conservation scientist.
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the northern tamandua.
The northern tamandua
(Tamandua mexicana) is a medium-sized anteater that lives in tropical and subtropical forests from southern Mexico, through Central America, to the edge of the northern Andes in South America. Tamanduas are adapted to an arboreal lifestyle; they have a prehensile tail and forefeet that enable them to grip branches and climb. They are specialized to eat termites and ants, and like other anteaters, they have no teeth. Their mouth opening is only about the di
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Two prominent international publications have featured Costa Rica in their recent news coverage.
In a story that appears in its February magazine, National Geographic explored how the coronavirus pandemic could threaten conservation efforts on the Osa Peninsula. An excerpt from their article:
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the Costa Rican economy, shutting off the spigot of tourist dollars that has underwritten the shift toward environmentally sustainable livelihoods. The hearts and minds of Osa people are turning toward a conservation ethic. But they still have stomachs.
“People here are close to nature,” says Hilary Brumberg, the Osa Conservation staffer who led the reforestation project on Doña Celedonia’s farm. “But when it comes to feeding your family or protecting nature, the family will come first.”