Monday December 17, 2018

This morning we hiked on the only trail we hadn't hiked on, "The Jungle trail". Every day we see new plant species and animal species. The birds and animals we usually only get a glimpse and have to ask for identification from the Ngobla people. The animals here are amazing. They do have deer here, but not on the station. Today was data analysis, we started our poster. Some good progress today. To be continued....

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