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A Trip to Three Brazilian Biomes: Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, and Cerrado

Giant River Otters, July 26, morning, part 2

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July 26, 2023

Giant River Otters

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Plans Are Made

July 13, 2023

I am taking a trip to Brazil for the last two weeks of July 2023. Traveling with two friends and a guide. We have plans to see jaguars, giant anteaters, tapirs, capybaras, spider monkeys, giant river otters, maned wolves, Capuchin monkeys, and a myriad of colorful birds. We will be visiting three of the six Brazilian biomes. We will spend two days in the Atlantic Forest, four days in the Pantanal , and three days in the Cerrado . d The Atlantic Forest is composed of a series of ecosystems with very different structures and composition of flowers, as well as the climatic characteristics of the region where it occurs, having as a common element the exposure to the humid winds that blow from the ocean. * First stop is Trilha dos Tucanos where I look forward to feeding brightly colored birds with one hand and drinking a cup of delicious Brazilian coffee with the other. The Atlantic Forest (click hyperlink to the left to view video) The ...

Saw My First Jaguar In the Wild… Left Me Speechless

July 25, 2023

Staying on a houseboat for the next two nights. Taking small boats out on the river to look for jaguars. SUCCESS! About one hour into our boat ride we saw a Jaguar! About an hour later we saw a huge male jaguar. We ended the day celebrating with caipirinhas…

Bearded Capuchin Monkeys/ July 29, morning

July 29, 2023

Feeding a Bearded Capuchin monkey The famous nut-cracking Bearded Capuchin Monkeys of Wolf Valley Camp are in fact a 25-minute drive away, in a rocky dry forest nook. We leave Wolf Valley Camp after breakfast to drive to the spot and then walk 20 meters or so to find the monkeys. The monkeys are perfectly prepared to display their nut-cracking skills only a few metres from our little stools. It is amazing to watch these most intelligent of all monkeys choose their special hammer rocks like tools in their tool kit and to do full-body lifts of the heavy rocks and to bring them with all their strength to crack the extremely hard, golf-ball-sized palm nuts. It is especially fascinating to watch young monkeys observing older group members cracking nuts with these hammer rocks. The young monkeys take many months of practice and observation over 3-4 years and then more practice to get strong enough and skilled enough to crack nuts successfully themselve...