{"id":584,"date":"2013-06-17T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=584"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T04:32:09","slug":"belize-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/belize-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Belize 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The field season 2013 started with a bang! This May, I joined an\u00a0international team of over 40 bat biologists in an expedition to Lamanai, Belize. The trip was led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/biology\/Faculty\/fenton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr.\u00a0Brock Fenton<\/a>, a bat expert from the University of Western Ontario who has been visiting the site for over 20 years. Lamanai is impressive with biodiversity and archeological remains; \u00a0jaguar faces not only decorate the Mayan temples, but these animals can be seen around the area as well.<\/p>\n<p>With a few dozen bat researchers in the group, projects were as diverse as the bats: morphology\u00a0of wings, muscles, skulls and reproductive tracts, echolocation, feeding behavior, diet, flight aerodynamics,\u00a0radio tracking, viruses, and more. We caught around\u00a0500 bats from 28 species, the great majority of which were released unharmed. The voucher specimens that were kept will serve as the basis of studies in labs across five institutions, which is an impressive use of field-collected specimens. These will continue to be available to researchers at the American Museum of Natural History&#8217;s Mammal Collection.<\/p>\n<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;3&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;Belize 2013&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field season 2013 started with a bang! This May, I joined an\u00a0international team of over 40 bat biologists in an expedition to Lamanai, Belize. The trip was led by Dr.\u00a0Brock Fenton, a bat expert from the University of Western Ontario who has been visiting the site for over 20 years. Lamanai is impressive with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}