Wednesday Feb 25: Day 4 in Santa Rosa

Today was a nice change of pace with mammal diversity day.  We started off the morning with a reading in the classroom, then had a lecture on mammals from Richard.  It was really basic, I already know the difference between an omnivore and a carnivore.  Then we did species reports until lunch in the classroom, mostly on mammals.  After lunch we had free time from 1-3. It was really nice to have some downtime.  I finished the book I was reading, then did some homework. The rest of the afternoon we did a lot of species reports, but Richard found some bats to show us, so that was really cool.  We even got to sit at camp for some of the reports, which was super nice.  After dinner we had discussion about megafauna and how lots of plants are adapted for dispersal by megafauna, but humans killed them all off.  Overall it was a good discussion.  They even gave us wine! Oh so happy!  The whole group drank 10 huge bottles.  After discussion I stayed up for a bit with some of the group to drink a little, but ended up going to bed fairly early.