Hylesia lineata. a hemileucinc satumiid of the Pacific side of Central America, is exceptional among the 30 species of satumiids of the de(:iduous forests of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica (0-350 m elevation). It ...

Tropical conservation biology is inescapably the biology of habitat fragments and has been focused on habitat decay. Habitat restoration is primarily the initiation. growth. and coalescence of habitat fragments. Management of ...

Zoologists have long anguished over the recognItIOn and significance of strays, lost migrants, dispersing juveniles, rafting voyagers, etc. Does a migrating bird that is 1000 km from its species' established migration ...

Costa Rican range horses break the hard, ripe fruits of Crescentia alata with their incisors and swallow the small seeds imbedded in the sugar-rich fruit pulp. The seeds survive the trip through the horse and germinate ...

Parrots and parakeets (Psittacidae) are often thought of as frugivorous, and fruits are often listed as the food of parrots observed feeding in the wild (e.g. Forshaw 1978, Parrots of the World, London, David and Charles, ...