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A Short List of Dos and Don’ts for Building Jungle Lodges
I know these are the proverbial tips of a fish in a small bowl. That doesn’t matter, I hope they help!Do pick high ground.The Amazon floodplain is wide. And I mean wide. When we built Tambopata...
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A New Face Around the Lodges...
It’s my first morning at Posada Amazonas, and I just spent two hours watching a family of endangered Giant River Otters hunt as 3 species of macaws soared overhead. Not a bad start.That is one popular...
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"You're Welcome, Amazon" -Africa
On an epic voyage, dust from a single valley in Africa takes a 5000km flight across the globe, only to land in the Amazon. It’s not just any old dust. It’s rich in iron and phosphorous, which are...
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Butterfly Basics, Part 1
Butterflies, one of my favorite groups of organisms to work with, are equally complex and interesting as they are beautiful. Here are a few answers to common questions I get about them as I walk around...
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How to Spot a Monkey in the Rainforest
Saddle-back TamarinThe key to spotting monkeys with your eyes is, simply put, using your ears. Ideally, you would take the time to memorize their calls; the bird-like whistles of tamarins and squirrel...
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Amazon Wildlife Videos - Tayra
I was lucky enough to catch three tayras on video while at the macaw claylick hide at Posada Amazonas. Tayras, relatives of the weasel and the otter, are typically seen very briefly on a trail or up...
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A Day at the Chacra (Farm)
Yesterday afternoon, the guides took us just across the river from Refugio Amazonas Lodge to an organic farm that supplies some of the food to the lodges. Farmers in the area have learned to do farming...
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The Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons), master of bluff
The Black-fronted Nunbird, master of bluffBlack Fronted NunbirdThe Black fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) is a six inch nondescript black bird with a red bill from the puffbird family (Bucconidae)....
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Smarter Every Day in the Amazon
The TeamWe’ve had the pleasure of working with Destin from the educational (and incredibly entertaining) YouTube channel Smarter Every Day here at Rainforest Expeditions. He spent a week with Jeff...
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The Turtle and the Jaguar
The Turtle and the JaguarBey, a good Huaroni friend, and better hunter, told me one his grandpa´s stories. A tortoise (Geochelone denticulata) comes across a jaguar. The tortoise collapses into its...
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Why is the rainforest so diverse?
In the 10 short minutes it takes you to step off the canoe and walk up to the lodges, you’ll likely have passed over 300 species of plants and insects and heard the calls of dozens of varieties of...
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This is one unbelievable caterpillar
This caterpillar was found at Posada Amazonas lodge in Tambopata, Peru. As far as I can tell, is the larva of a moth in the family Megalopygidae. This family is known for having hairy caterpillars with...
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Clearwing Butterflies
A clearwing butterfly feeds on a flower full of pyrrolizidine alkaloid toxins. Photo by Phil Torres.A common sight in Tambopata- Clearwing butterflies, known as the Ithomiini, are beautiful, deadly,...
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Why are some leaves not green?
While walking around the rainforests of Tambopata you will see some leaves that don’t seem to belong amongst their green brethren- some of these leaves can be blue, purple, red, pink, or even white....
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Help us figure out how many jaguars live along the Tambopata River!
Jaguar seen from the canoe on the way up to Tambopata Research Center.Image by Jeff Cremer.How can you help us solve this question? Post your jaguar photos from your visit to Rainforest Expeditions...
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Ants, Plants, and Bodyguards
Here in the rainforests of Tambopata, we see many interesting relationships between different organisms. Some are just smaller than others.Camponotus femoratus ant feeding on an Inga extrafloral...
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The Froggy Medicine Factory
The monkey frogs of the Tambopata rainforest are literally covered in medical secrets yet to be discovered.I think we caught this monkey frog on a bad day. Maybe she'd cheer up if she knew she could...
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Purple Pleasing Fungus Beetle
A purple pleasing fungus beetle, Gibbifer sp. - Phil TorresIf you stop to think about it, purple is one of the least common colors in all of nature, even here in the Tambopata rainforests. Thus, when I...
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Extraordinary Beaks
Extraordinary Beaksby Iva Petrovchich, Pandemonium Aviaries internOne of PeruNature’s partner groups is Pandemonium Aviaries, a 501(c)3 non-profit bird sanctuary where exotic endangered birds are being...
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Amazon Camera Traps
We've had a camera trap set up at the Tambopata Research Center to catch glimpses of the elusive mammals in the area- check it out!
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