This post complements Chapter 12. Birds and Bees: Wildlife in the Palms in my book, The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm, published by the University of Florida Press.
Anyone remember watching cartoons with animals hiding in hollow logs?
How many hollow logs have you actually seen? They are fairly common with cabbage palms when the outer “pseudobark” remains and the center of the palm rots out. Sometimes I turn my flash on my cell phone and stick it in a hollow palm log and shoot. Below is one result:
