For 10 days over the Thanksgiving break, 12 students in the School of Biological Sciences came eyeball-to-eyeball with tropical monkeys, snakes, and ants in one of the liveliest places in the world.
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Students study millipede mating habits, other mysteries of rain forest
A group of mating millipedes set off a scramble Friday afternoon just off a trail in a Costa Rican rain forest. A half-dozen Illinois State biology students dug into the mud to gather the squirming arthropods for graduate student Kristin Duffield’s research project.
Welcome to the jungle: Ecology class takes research trip to Costa Rica
The group of Illinois State biology students and faculty arrived Thursday in Costa Rica and will spend 10 days at La Selva Biological Station.