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Panama 2016 – Jon Hall Panama 2016 – Jon Hall Cacomistle Bassariscus sumichrasti, Los Quetzales In early 2016 I was wondering where to take my kids for a long weekend from New York during their Easter vacation. And then Cheryl Antonucci started posting pictures of Cacomistles all over facebook. Panama: great idea! This wasn’t a super intense mammal trip and I won’t write a long report, but will add a few details to supplement Cheryl’s report. I followed very much in her footsteps and took my kids to 3 of the same locations she had visited: Colon, for Panamanian Night Monkeys; Coiba Island, for the endemic Agouti and Howler Monkey; and Los Quetzales lodge for Cacomistles and more. Organizing the trip was pretty straightforward. I booked everything over the internet and hired an SUV from Hertz at the airport. First thing to note is that car hire prices on Expedia do not bear much resemblance to the actual cost which includes expensive government mandated compulsory insurance, even if you have purchased Expedia insurance or get it through your credit card. So don't pre-pay for insurance until you arrive, and expect the actual bill to be about twice what Expedia tell you (though it was still not unreasonable). Coiba Island Our first stop was a night at the Melia Hotel in Colon. It should take an hour and a half from the airport but Google maps insisted we take a road that didn’t exist. This wasted a bunch of time: there is no turn off towards the hotel from the Panama-Colon freeway, whatever Google tells you. You need to get off of the freeway first and take the back roads to get to the hotel. Two Panamanian Night Monkeys were right behind the blue tank, exactly as Cheryl described early next morning. Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis The entire journey from guard gate to blue tank is about 30 seconds… the tank is in the corner of a small parking area next to the back of the hotel. Post-monkeys we relaxed and enjoyed the very nice hotel pool for the rest of the morning. Katy and Patrick negotiate some non-mammal time Coiba Island Panamanian White-throated Capuchin Cebus imitator, Coiba Island It took about 5 hours to drive across Panama to the very hospitable Hotel Heliconia right in front of Coiba Island. The guest house has some resident Proboscis Bats, and occasionally sees Armadillos, Tamanduas and other stuff – including Honduran White Bats – in the garden. Proboscis Bats Rhynchonycteris naso Loes and Kees, a Dutch couple, own the hotel and Tanager Tourism, and specialize in organizing trips to Coiba. It is a fairly expensive trip, primarily because you need to hire a boat and driver for the 3 hour crossing to the island and you also need the boat to get around while you are there. It is possible in theory to hitch a ride and camp on the beach (as I heard a couple of Americans saying they had done), but it is not straightforward. Apparently you need proof you have organised a trip back to the mainland or you may not be allowed to land. Moreover, from time to time people get stranded on the island and run out of food when their return trip fails to materialise. Day trips from Santa Catalina are possible too, though that would greatly reduce your chances of seeing the Howlers. So we went with Kees. He guided - and cooked for - us on the island for our 24 hour stay and arranged everything perfectly. I doubt whether we would have seen the Howler’s without him. He’s also a very nice guy. As Cheryl said, Coiba Agoutis are easy to see by the accommodation. Coiba Island Agouti Dasyprocta coibae Kees knows the best stakeouts for the Coiba Howlers and we saw some along a trail a 10 minute boat ride from the accommodation area, after missing them on the trail to the hot springs. I heard them behind our room the next morning. Opinion remains divided on whether the Coiba Howler is a full species or a subspecies of Alouatta palliata. Coiba Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta palliata coibensis For the moment I will follow the IUCN and not count it as a full species for my life list. In any case, Coiba is well worth a visit for the snorkeling alone: on one snorkel we saw 4 very large turtles and a impressively big White-tipped Reef Shark. The area is also very good for cetaceans. We had a stunning encounter with a pod of False Killer Whales close to the island as we arrived. A pod of 20 or so played around the boat for half an hour, repeated swimming just under our small boat, spy hopping and breaching around us. False Killer Whale Pseudorca crassidens It’s a species I have only seen twice before; both times they have been moving fast in the open ocean, so this was a really special sighting – one of my very best cetacean encounters ever. Kees has only seen False Killers twice before in five years off of the island so we were lucky. And here is some video to give a sense of the encounter. The only other mammals we saw on the island were some White-throated Capuchins, both in the forest and by the accommodation. On the way home we had a brief look at a few Bottle-nosed Dolphins which – I think – were travelling with a Pantropical Spotted Dolphin or two. There are other cetaceans in the area, including Humpacks during August and September which come to the waters to calve: the whale watching muyst be fabulous then. Los Quetzales Lodge Cacomistle Bassariscus sumichrasti Our last stop was the fabulous Los Quetzales lodge. As Cheryl described, you really do need to stay in Cabin 8 (or 9 at a pinch). These two cabins are the furthest from the main lodge: a 30 minute walk, or 4WD trip, up a very steep and very rough track from the main lodge in a gorgeous bit of Cloud Forest. You have the area to yourselves when you get there and can either arrange for the lodge to deliver food or supplies to the spacious cabin. It is one of the nicest places I have ever stayed. Five Cacomistles were waiting for us at dusk when we arrived at the cabin. In fact I didn’t see any Kinkajous (though they were presumably around), perhaps because I only spent an hour or so each night looking at the Cacomistles before going inside to watch horror movies with my kids. They are lovely animals (the Cacomistles... not my kids). Cacomistle Bassariscus sumichrasti I had read that Montane Squirrels (Sciurus brochus), generally hard to see elsewhere, were easy to spot around the cabins. The next morning I saw some squirrels that matched all the photos I could find online of Montane Squirrels. Except it turns out that all the photos are wrong: and the animal below, like the animals on Google are all Red-tailed Squirrels. Montane Squirrels look quite different, with much smaller ears and a less bushy tail. Red-tailed Squirrel Sciurus granatensis My son Patrick also spotted a couple of Singing Mice under the feeding station the next morning which on closer inspection proved to be Chiriqui Singing Mice Chiriqui Singing Mouse Scotinomys xerampelinus We also found a Montane Rice Rat, Mexican Deer Mouse and a Mexican Harvest Mouse too (my 1498th mammal I believe). Oh and there were lots of Quetzals. Mexican Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys mexicanus Although I walked the Los Minas trail three times – mid morning, dusk and dawn - I didn’t see an Alfaro’s Pygmy Squirrel. I suspect they prefer the smaller stunted trees such as those near the waterfall at the end of the trail (where I think Cheryl saw a squirrel), though that is just a hunch. Trip List Red-tailed Squirrel Sciurus granatensis Chiriqui Singing Mouse Scotinomys xerampelinus Mexican Deer Mouse Peromyscus mexicanus Mexican Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys mexicanus Montane Rice Rat Oryzomys devius Coiba Island Agouti Dasyprocta coibae False Killer Whale Pseudorca crassidens Indo-Pacific Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops aduncus Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Stenella attenuata Cacomistle Bassariscus sumichrasti Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso Panamanian White-throated Capuchin Cebus imitator Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis Coiba Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta palliata coibensis 14 species with 7 lifers (in bold) False Killer Whale .
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