By Etienne Kaya – French intern I would like to say thanks to EcoCircuitos Panama and Panama Marine Adventures for this great experience adventure! My tour started in the morning at the Flamenco Resort and Marina. Passengers board motor coaches for a 45 minute ride to the town of Gamboa, a scenic road in [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Unforgetable Transit the Panama Canal
Posted in Adventures, Ecotourism, Tours and Adventures, tagged bridge of the americas, canal adventure tours, educational tours in panama, internship in panama, panama canal, panama canal expansion, Panama Canal Tours, panama canal transits, transit the panama canal on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Whole New Meaning for Thinking on Your Feet
Posted in Educational tours, environmental tours, Geotourism, Panama, Scientific tours, STRI, Tours and Adventures, tagged panama biodiversity, panama canal, panama sustainable travel, photograp, rainforest spiders, scientific tours, smithsonian researcher, smithsonian tropical research institute, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, STRI, William Wcislo on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of ongoing research to understand how miniaturization affects brain size and behavior, researchers measured the central nervous systems of nine species of spiders, from rainforest giants to spiders smaller than [...]










