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Boo! Bones are on the menu tonight! 🦴 In the anim Boo! Bones are on the menu tonight! 🦴 In the animal kingdom, “osteophagy” refers to the practice of consuming bones. Giraffes, a common sight for our Botswana students, chew on bones frequently. Though much remains mysterious about osteophagic behavior in giraffes, it is thought that they absorb important minerals like calcium and phosphorus from bones. Our Mongolia students on the other side of the world get to see the Lammergier, or Bearded Vulture, go a step further. This majestic vulture’s diet consists almost entirely of bones! They swallow small bones whole, and drop larger bones from great heights to gain access to the nutritious marrow inside. Then, they digest the shards in stomach acid at pH 1 – that’s around the same acidity as battery acid. To make matters spookier, these birds have been observed dyeing their feathers with iron oxide from soil or iron-rich hot springs, leaving their faces and necks a rich blood-red hue… Happy Halloween from Round River! 🎃 📸: Thank you to current Mongolia student, Milana Krishnevsky, for the Lammergier photo and Instructor, David Marquis, for the video. Credit to Pedro Reali for the giraffe image.
The Austral Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium nana), or chunco The Austral Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium nana), or chunco in Spanish, is a small owl native to the temperate forests of Patagonia. Though this bird has a varied diet including insects and reptiles, up to half of its diet consists of small mammals. Brayden Stanger (Patagonia ‘26) captured this video in Reserva Nacional Lago Jeinimeni last spring of a chunco enjoying a delicious bat meal. Happy almost Halloween!
Earlier this month, our Patagonia students spent t Earlier this month, our Patagonia students spent three nights in Tamango National Reserve during their first backpacking trip of the semester. Their adventure began just across the Cochrane River from basecamp, hiking upstream into the reserve where they settled in at a beautiful campsite on the shores of Cochrane Lake. Over the next couple of days, the students continued developing their natural history skills, building on knowledge gained in classes with hands-on practice identifying local plants and animals. At the end of the trip, they had their first natural history quiz, putting their naturalist skills to the test. From practicing backpacking to writing their first field journal entries, this first trip to Tamango was a chance to begin a semester of learning about the Aysén region. 🌿🏔️ — A principios de este mes, nuestros estudiantes de Patagonia pasaron tres noches en la Reserva Nacional Tamango, en su primera travesía de mochileros del semestre. La aventura comenzó justo al otro lado del río Cochrane, desde nuestro campamento base, donde el grupo inició una caminata hacia el interior de la reserva hasta llegar al lugar que sería su hogar durante los siguientes días: un hermoso campamento a orillas del lago Cochrane. A lo largo de la travesía, los estudiantes continuaron desarrollando sus habilidades de historia natural, complementando las clases en el aula con actividades prácticas de identificación de la flora y fauna local. También alcanzaron un hito importante: su primera evaluación de historia natural en terreno, donde pusieron a prueba sus conocimientos en los mismos ecosistemas que se han convertido en su sala de clases. Desde caminar y acampar hasta observar, identificar y hacerse preguntas, los días en Tamango fueron una oportunidad para llevar el aprendizaje a la práctica y profundizar su comprensión del mundo natural que los rodea en Aysén. 🌿🏔️ 📸: Maggie Johnson (1-5), Cass Cooley (6)
Have you been thinking about spending next semeste Have you been thinking about spending next semester in the field? There’s still space for you to join the herd! The application deadline has been extended by one week for our Spring 2027 programs. Scholarship awards ranging from $500 to $10,000 are also still available for qualified students through the Edward Abbey Fund. Apply by October 23rd through the link in our bio! 📸: Pedro Reali
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