Christian Ziegler / Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum) portrait, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-throated Round-eared Bat (Tonatia silvicola) eating a Fig, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Plantation Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachiumácolymbiphyllum) is nearly transparent including the bones, only digestive tract is visible, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Dicot (Omphalea sp) vine tendril wrapping around supporting branch in tropical rainforest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Game wardens with confiscated boat full of iguanas that were poached for sale as bush meat, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Seedlings on forest floor, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Spiral Ginger (Costus pulverulentus) leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Gesneria (Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana) arranges its few leaves in a rosette close to the ground to avoid overlap, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Serjania (Serjania sp) runner puts out compound leaves alternately to avoid overlap, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) that has fallen opens a space that starts race between thousands of seedlings and saplings, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Vine main stem winds around its support, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) fruit, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) root pattern on host tree, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cecropia (Cecropia sp) stilt roots, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Leaf with water drops, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Shade plants with their large leaves cover the banks of forest creek, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Guayacan Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia guayacan) dropped petals after synchronized mass flowering triggered by dry-season rain, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp), Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas) caterpillar mimicking bird dropping, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Spiral Ginger (Costus pulverulentus) flower, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Roots along forest floor to get nutrients released by decaying litter rather than underground, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Lianas in rainforest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Rainforest canopy, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Dichorisandra (Dichorisandra sp) arranges all leaves in one plane to avoid self shading, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Sediment-loaded stream in deforested area, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Embara Indian man with collected plants used for medical purposes, Chagres River, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Young red leaves lacking chlorophyll, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Leaf damaged by insect larva with a distinctive feeding pattern, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Leaf showing network of veins, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cup Moth (Limacodidae) caterpillar has poisonous spines for protection, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Guayacan Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia guayacan) synchronized flowering caused by heavy rain during the dry season, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Pseudobombax (Pseudobombax sp) drops leaves in dry season to reduce water loss from transpiration, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Bracket Fungus (Favolus brasiliensis) mushrooms, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Forest floor at the end of rainy season, Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Sequence 2 of 2

Christian Ziegler / Forest floor at the end of dry season, Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Sequence 1 of 2

Christian Ziegler / Seedling sprouting from humus on the base of large leaf, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Silverleaf Pumpwood (Cecropia peltata) use their energy to grow fast and spend little to defend leaves against herbivores, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Seed diversity, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Beach Spiderlily (Hymenocallis littoralis) opens its flowers in late afternoon and releases a sweet scent soon after sunset to attract the moths that pollinate it, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Coral Orchid (Rodriguezia lanceolata) flowers, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Orchid (Catasetum viridiflavum) female flowers, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fringe-lipped Bat (Trachops cirrhosus) group roosting in hollow tree, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fringe-lipped Bat (Trachops cirrhosus) feet, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Radio transmitter on the back of a bat used by scientists to record its movements, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Radio transmitter used by scientists to record bat movements, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus) feet showing long claws used to catch fish, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus) feeding on a small fish, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) male displaying by extending dewlap, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) male displaying by extending dewlap and calling, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) portrait, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) portrait of female overlooking breeding colony on small Island in Lake Gatun, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Parrot Snake (Leptophis ahaetulla) with open mouth, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota conexus) perching on tree branch, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) on beach, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Bulldog Bat or Fishing Bat (Noctilio leporinus) hunting insects near water surface, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-throated Round-eared Bat (Tonatia silvicola) eating Katydid (Tettigoniidae), Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) head portrait of dominant male, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) portrait of female overlooking breeding colony on small island in Lake Gatun, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) eggs in nest chamber, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) detail of spines on the back of a dominant male, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) detail of climbing claws, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira annulata) attempting to eat young Cane Toad (Bufo marinus), a toxic species, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) male, along shoreline, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) game wardens with confiscated boat full of poached iguanas, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) detail of eye, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Sangrillo (Croton billbergianus) have nectaries on their young leaves that attract Ants and Caterpillars, in this case the Caterpillar of the Yucatan Scintillant (Thisbe irenea) butterfly feeds with a...

Christian Ziegler / Violet-bellied Hummingbird (Damophila julie) feeding on flower nectar, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) portrait with captured insect prey in its bill, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) eating Crocodile hatchling, blamed for disappearance of several species of ground-nesting understory birds, Barro Colorado, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Lantern Bug (Fulgora laternaria) hatchlings shown staying close to the empty foam egg-case days after hatching, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Six species of butterfly and two species of moth, all members of the (Heliconius ismenius) batesian mimicry ring, the (Heliconius ismenius clarescens) in the middle is considered the original model of...

Christian Ziegler / Praying Mantis (Mantis sp) eating a Katydid (Tettigoniidae) for dinner, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Variety of seeds and fruits from over 30 plant species, collected on Barro Colorado Island in late April, near the end of dry season, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Small creek running through tropical rainforest in the middle of the island, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Fig Wasp (Blastophaga psenes) group emerging from opened fruit where they fertilize the Fig, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Caterpillar with poisonous cotton-candy like hairs, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Belembe Silvestre (Xanthosoma helleborifolium) compound leaf with leaflets arranged in a double spiral, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Game wardens going out on night patrol, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Tendril looking for support to twist around, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Bromeliad (Werauhia gladioliflora) epiphyte, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Suicide Tree (Tachigali versicolor) buttress roots, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Walking Palm (Socratea exorrhiza) stilt roots, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Kapok (Ceiba sp) tree with water-filled hole, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Liana in rainforest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fodder Cane (Saccharum spontaneum), invasive species being burned thus preventing trees from replacing it, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Tree trunk seen through understory rainforest vegetation, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus insipida) tree with large roots in old growth rainforest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Wasps emerging from pupa inside fig seed, they mate with each other inside seed, then fly off in search of a flowering fig tree of the same species, in turn pollinating it, Barro Colorado Island, Pana...

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) tree trunks, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Red Ucuuba (Virola sebifera) sapling has one layer of leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Madder (Psychotria acuminata) with flowers at the tips of its twigs, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Rainforest along river, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra) with tourists, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Young red leaves lacking chlorophyll, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / St. John's-wort (Calophyllum longifolium) sapling with herbivore damage due to its nutritious leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Leaves damaged by herbivores with undamaged counterparts, Barro Colorado Island, Panama