STRI special events,
March 2025

2024 Secretary's Research Awards, Women and Girls in Science Day Celebration, LSP fellows’ workshop and more.

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True Folivory in Bats

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves.

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STRI special events, May 2024

OCon2U Visits STRI, Global Big Day, eButterfly, Ocean Celebration in Bocas del Toro, and more

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Scientists catch the suspect in long-term marine murder mystery

Murder mysteries may take decades to resolve, especially if they take place under the sea. The massive deaths of sea urchins in the Caribbean in the 1980’s is one of them. But only after a new killing spree erupted in 2022, could scientists corner the probable killer.

Disease Ecology Fisheries and Marine Conservation Taxonomy Zoology Global Change Conservation Biology Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Naos Punta Galeta magenta Harilaos Lessios

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STRI special events,
March 2023

Guide training at Punta Culebra, Bahia Almirante Symposium, Crassulacean Acid Metabolism workshop, A Call for Ambition and more.

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Education for Sustainable Development: more of the same or the same but different?

What role do civil society institutions play in achieving SDG 4?

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STRI special events,
August 2022

Q?rioso Inauguration, Panama Book Fair, Jaramillo Award, Tony Coates Fellowship, QGIS Workshop.

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My Journey to Barro Colorado Island
(Part 1 of 3)

For many tropical biologists, all roads lead to Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the most-studied piece of tropical real estate in the world. STRI Intern Omayra Meléndez shares her story about arriving on BCI and how the island is transforming her career.

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Text by Omayra Meléndez

Microbial Ecology Disease Ecology Biodiversity Forest Ecology Chemical Ecology Connections in nature: Plants, Animals, Microbes and Environments Barro Colorado magenta Erin Spear

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Unique agates on a Panamanian island reveal submarine volcanic activity

Giant agates found in an island on the Pacific coast of Panama prompted a study on the area’s geology to answer the question of how the Isthmus evolved and became a bridge between two continents.

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Archaeology Geology Paleontology and Paleobiology Anthropology Geography and Biogeography Life in Deep Time Naos magenta

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Small prey bully large
predators… and win

Tiny, fruit-eating bats take over the roost of larger, carnivorous bats at the edge of Panama’s Soberanía National Park.

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Animal Behavior Zoology Natural History Long-term monitoring Biodiversity Ecology Origins of Species and Societies Gamboa magenta Rachel Page

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