A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I owe a large debt of gratitude to many people who directly or indirectly helped me write this book.They include my mentors Clara Dixon, Emmett Hooper,and Charles Handley;my collaborators DonWilson,Ray Heithaus, Don Thomas, Frank Bonaccorso, Merlin Tuttle, Hugh Spencer, Leo Sternberg ,Jim Hamrick,John Nason,Sandrine Maurice,and JerryWilkinson;my graduate students RickWilliams,Larry Herbst,Renee Borges,Randy Breitwisch , Peg Horner (officially a student at Texas A&M), Vinnie Sosa, Cathy Sahley, Andy Mack,DebWright-Mack,Gerardo Herrera,Sophie Petit,Jafet Nassar, Nat Holland, and Lyndsay Newton; and my field assistants par excellence Juni Barrett, Orlando Barbosa, and Liz and Rich Chipman. Many institutions provided essential support for my research. These include the Smithsonian Institution,the SmithsonianTropical Research Institute , the Universities of Michigan, Missouri (St. Louis), and Miami, the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Costa Rican National Park Service, and Bat Conservation International. Financial support for my studies has come from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Earthwatch, Fulbright Foundation, National Geographic Society, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation , Arizona Game and Fish Department,and theTedTurner Endangered Species Fund. xix Making my family and me feel “at home” while we were away from home on research leaves or sabbaticals were the following people and institutions : Karl Johnson and the Middle America Research Unit (Panama); Ruth and Steve Stevens and Zenel and Carmen Coto (Costa Rica); Chris Perrins, Nick Davies, John Krebs, and the Edward Grey Institute (Oxford); DickWhite and the Department of Botany (Duke University);Helene Marsh and the Department of Zoology (James Cook University, Australia); Judie Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Arizona);and Gary Nabhan and the Arizona– Sonora Desert Museum. I also wish to acknowledge the warm friendship and camaraderie of my Mexican colleagues Hector Arita, Gerardo Ceballos, Rodrigo Medellin, and Francisco Molina and their students, whose enthusiastic interest, help, and joie de vivre have made my work in Mexico truly enjoyable. Bill Deiss kindly allowed me to work with the extant field notebooks of Edward Goldman and the correspondence of Alexander Wetmore in the Archives of the Smithsonian Institution. I thank Keir Sterling and Oliver (“Paynie”) Pearson for their insights into the history of explorations by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mammalogists. I wish to thank Luther and Betty Goldman specially for sharing with me stories about their lives and that of Luther’s father, Edward Goldman. I thank Jim Findley, Nat Holland, Marleta Nemire-Pepe, Peter Scott, and Don Wilson for reading and commenting on the entire manuscript. Special thanks go to Christine Henry, the biological sciences editor at the University of Chicago Press, for her early interest in and encouragement of this project, and to Doris Kretschmer for shepherding my manuscript into publication . My greatest thanks go to my wife, Marcia, who has provided unfailing support at all times, good and bad. I could not have written this book without her love,encouragement,and help,which included correcting my memory lapses and editing early drafts of all chapters. We both shared a vision of travel adventures early in our marriage but never imagined how extensive those adventures would be. She has cheerfully accompanied me from the top of Panama to the tip of Baja California;from Monteverde,Costa Rica, to El Verde, Puerto Rico; from the Fox Glacier in southern New Zealand to Lake Patzcuaro in the highlands of Mexico. She does draw the line at bat caves,however.Being claustrophobic,she cannot stand to be in dark,narrow spaces. When I slither into bat caves, I’m on my own! xx / Acknowledgments Map 1. Panama P A C I F I C O C E A N C A R I B B E A N S E A Panama City BOCAS TORO CHIRIQUÍ COSTA RICA COLOMBIA 100 km 0 50 N Panama Canal Barro Colorado Lago Gatún Rio Jaqué` Jaqué Rodman Sherman Progreso GULF OF PANAMA Map 2. Costa Rica P A C I F I C O C E A N C A R I B B E A N S E A NICARAGUA PANAMA 100 km 0 50 N Santa Rosa National Park HEREDIA GUANACASTE P U N T A R E N A S La Selva Alajuela Liberia Cañas PuertoViejo La Pacifica San José R í o T e m p i s q u e R í o S a r a p iquí Río...