Chapter 222 - Don't Monkey Around With Me

There's another interesting phenomenon with the trees as well," Rafael continued. "Right now, as you can see," he said as the view swung away from Rafael's face and out toward the depths of the Ceiba forest, "there is enough ambient light for us to see. It is green-tinted because it is filtering through the green fronds. Sometimes, however, the canopy thickens and becomes opaque. It stays green, but it doesn't allow light through and the entire understory is dark, and we need artificial light to see. It doesn't seem to follow any regular timing. When it happens, it takes about 70 seconds for the understory to go from the conditions you see now to complete darkness. We don't know why or what triggers it."