Semester Credits - 4 Natural History is a class planned to acquaint you first hand with those aspects of biology not covered in detail in currently offered courses, and too little emphasized in biological curriculua in most schools. While these areas receive little academic attention today as compared with a generation ago, they are still fundamental to understanding nature and the Creator.
Natural history is also the area of biology about which people ask the most questions.
This year we will spend the majority of our class time in the new world tropics, of Costa Rica and Honduras. We can enjoy the wonders of the tropics with bananas, coconuts, mangos, papayas, and pineapples in abundance. The blooms of the Royal Poinciana, the Kapok, hibiscus, orchids, and numerous other tropical flowering trees and shrubs will provide an astonishing array of new plant species to study. Howler monkeys and spider monkeys as well as a variety of rodents and other mammals make themselves known in their own ways. The rich reptilian fauna of the tropics will be available for study.