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Just over 25 years ago in Brazil, in the first field report of maternal care in neotropical centipedes, author G. Machado noted that not all centipede species exhibit parental care, and this behavior can't be studied in the laboratory, because the female is very sensitive to disturbances, abandoning her brood if attacked by fungi or predators.

Not an auspicious beginning to his study, but in fact, the entomologist found that in the neotropical species they studied in Brazil, "the female curls herself around the eggs or the young, laying on her side and enclosing the brood between her legs and the ventral surface of her body. As recorded for other centipede species, the eggs and the young are thus safeguarded from contact with the soil."

Scientists hypothesize that this stretch of land was a Neotropical corridor.

A River Partners analysis of the property found species including riparian woodrat, Swainson’s hawk, least Bell’s vireo, yellow warbler, sandhill crane and “an entire suite of neotropical migratory songbirds.”

These images were subsequently published in a research paper published by the open-access journal, Neotropical Biology and Conservation.