The night before last, some large-ish creature paid a nocturnal visit to my back yard while I slept. I had cut down three stalks of bananas which were still green on the trees. The procedure is then to hang them in a shaded spot and let them ripen. This I did with one bunch and left the other two on the floor of the patio. While I was eating the hanging bunch, some of the others had begun to ripen on their own and every morning there was evidence that some small critter was munching in the night. I didn't care. I have lots - too many really.
But this was different. The big guy (or girl) ate one entire bunch and ate half bananas right off the stalk - totally green!! The remnants are still too green to remove. It or they left three critter flappers about the size of a side-plate but oblong and rippled - for effect, I guess. It or they also destroyed some of my plants where I toss my compost material and, oddly, one of many plants in the front yard.........hmmmm. My lone laying hen (who doesn't lay, at least not in the laying box or any other place I can find, only eats, roosts in the front. Maybe they were partying?
I have no idea what kind of animal it was. I know there are raccoons around but I don't think their scat would look like what I have described above. Monkeys don't tend to be nocturnal forragers from what I understand. Sure wish I knew a scatologist!! Maybe I should google Costa Rican Critter Scat?
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