Background:
On friday the 15th of February 2019 Vespucci College (a Dutch high school on Curacao) organized Discovery Day. All pupils of the school learned about the culture and nature of Curacao through geocaching. The school was divided within four themes: Arts & Literature, Monuments & History, Nature and Geography & Geology. The pupils prepared geocaches with different subjects within these four themes and on Discovery Day these caches were hidden by the pupils.
Vespucci College hopes to learn locals and tourists about the culture and nature of Curacao through these caches too! Happy caching!
The cache:
This cache is dedicated to bats. Bats are mammals of the order Chiropta, with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only flying mammals. Bats are more manoeuvrable than birds. On Curacao there are at least eight species of bats, most of them eat insects using echolocation. One particular species of bats on the island eats fish. The Bulldog bat (Noctilio Leporinus) has the capacity to detext very weak vibrations caused by fish that are just under the surface of the water. With the bats enormous long toes, and a membrane between the two hind legs, the unfortunate but tasty fish is scooped from the sea.
Did you know bats play a big role in the pollination of cactuses and therefor are very important for our ecology?
This cache was made by Selena (3b), Imani (3a) and Floor (3b) of Vespucci College.