The green color of Ecuadorian Amazon jungle wants to come at you; Just looking at it it creates a feeling of overflow, serious abundance of richness. It is so vivid and juicy that it makes you want to drink it, swim in it, look at it..... all the time. How come one part of the world can have it all, while elsewhere in the world people are oblivious to it; never given a chance of experiencing the paradise. In the Amazon you are bathing in pure form of prehistoric beauty. The green thick coat is craggy. The sound of jungle is crooning to your ears. End of rainy season produced water levels so high that most of the trees are half way under water. It makes river transportation so easy and risk-free. High water means to risk of bumping into underwater rocks, dead trees and other surprises.
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| Two
species of Sloth in the Cuyabeno area. The bigger of the two is smiling
at you from this photo. We caught him taking a nap. He looked at us and
curled away disgust with all the interest he was getting. | |
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| Yes,
that is right, curled into a ball, back to his nap. These animals are
active only few hours a day. Interesting fact: they go down to the
ground once every week or two to poop. It is a clean animal, the poop
gets covered as well! The reason for that is simple: keeping predators
away form his hiding place. Even though they go from tree to tree within
several miles radius, while they are asleep they do not want to be seen
or smelled. Hence pooping happens elsewhere, not from the tree level.
We also did see the smaller Sloth species but it was too hidden to
photograph. His fur was covered with spots and the color was a bit
darker than this ones. |
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| Monkeys everywhere, 10 species I managed to see and capture some. This one I believe is a Capuchin monkey. They are said to be the most predatory, the eat pretty much anything and unlike their other cousins, their diet includes eggs and meat. |
