Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. Steve Yanoviak, tropical biologist Steve Yanoviak is a postdoctoral research associate at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and he currently resides in Costa Rica nine months of the year, researching rain forest canopy insect diversity in the Monteverde cloud forest. He has been studying the ecology of tropical insects for over seven years. I am not sure what it caught, but I assume it was a mouse.
Mice are like cockroaches with fur.
I can sleep through strong winds and torrential rains battering my tin roof, but the sound of mice running through my walls keeps me awake all night. Believe me, a little natural predation around here is very welcome. At times, I have even considered snatching a large boa constrictor from the forest to use as mouse control. A really big mosquito. Also, Rigo and I stumbled across more animals than usual today.