• Tropical species also threatened by climate change AP

    AP - If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics. While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an ev...
    2008-10-09 16:49:09

  • Beijing uses forex reserves to target Taiwan

    The secretive government agency that supervises China's foreign exchange reserves used its funds to help convince Costa Rica to switch ties from Taiwan to Beijing last year, according to files obt...
    2008-09-12 03:04:06

  • Costa Rica turns it on for the kids

    Beautiful Costa Rica has plenty to keep the kids busy including white-water rafting, horseback riding through rain forest and watching sea turtles....
    2008-09-08 15:00:00

  • Birds' melodious duets may actually be 'aggressive audio warfare'

    Washington, Sept 5 ANI: Duets sung by breeding pairs of some tropical bird species may sound harmonious to humans, but a new study has found that some of these birds fight by singing, using melodic tweets to defend their relationships and territories.The University of Windsor and Cornell University team made their study possible by eight microphones positioned strategically throughout the dense tropical forests of Costa Rica. The microphones fed the song duets of rufous-and-white wrens into a single laptop computer, enabling researchers to pinpoint the exact positions of the colourful songbirds. "Your first impression after you hear the duet of a pair of tropical birds is one of great harmony and cooperation," said Daniel Mennill of the University of Windsor. "Their duets require coordination and synchronization, and my multi-microphone recordings confirm that birds do coordinate their activities by performing duets. "But there is a darker side to duetting; tropical birds also perform duets in very aggressive contexts, and respond with special aggression to rival individuals of the same sex. Their voices are beautiful harmonies, but they're also aggressive audio warfare," he added.The researchers found that male and female wrens approach each other following duets and use them to play a version of the children's game Marco Polo. "One bird sings, listens for the song of its partner, and moves towards their partner after hearing a response," Mennill said. In another set of experiments, Mennill used two loudspeakers to simulate the voices of a pair of duetting wrens and found that birds fight duets with more duets. He said that as soon as the birds heard the duets of a rival pair, their singing rate 'shot through the roof' - evidence that the melodies play an important role in aggressive territory defence.The study is published in the September 4th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. ANI
    2008-09-05 04:00:00

  • Experts poised for rare frog hunt

    Scientists are to hunt for some of the world's rarest frogs in Costa Rica, including the iconic golden toad, last seen 20 years ago....
    2008-09-01 00:00:00

  • Surfers fume over airlines' rising board fees

    It might be "surf's up" in Costa Rica, but swelling airline fees are wiping out surfers hoping to catch the next big wave....
    2008-08-24 13:43:24

  • Costa Rica Real Estate Prices for Vacation Homes Drop 40%

    PRWeb, a leader in online news and press release distribution, has been used by more than 40,000 organizations of all sizes to increase the visibility of their news, improve their search engine rankin...
    2008-08-22 12:08:57

  • World Record Fishing - Captain Bobby McGuinness- Costa Rica

    &lta href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1649772/world_record_fishing_captain_bobby_mcguinness_costa_rica/">&ltimg src="http://s1.mcstatic.com/thumb/1649772/7886789/0/rss_fee...
    2008-08-22 10:13:23

  • Costa Rica Mud monkeys and macho men

    The fiesta at Santa Cruz is not for the fainthearted but it's an authentic slice of Costa Rican life says Sasha Bates....
    2008-08-19 07:02:26

  • Travel to Costa Rica and Save the Rainforest with VBT Bicycling Vacations

    For guests booking bicycle tours from August 11-25, VBT will make a donation to the Nature Conservancy&ampamp;amp;#039;s Adopt an Acre program, preserving Costa Rica&ampamp;amp;#039;s endanger...
    2008-08-15 12:10:22
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