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Our Amerindian guide in the front of the boat found this in the trees above us on our boat trip back to the ranch in the darkness (we also had many fish-eating bats flying around the boat and had 3 fish actually jump into the boat) At one point we were totally inundated with some kind of moth like insect and had to turn off the light
Amazon Tree Boas are a boa species that are incredibly adapted to life in the trees. They live, eat, drink (raindrops and mist that gathers on the leaves), mate, and give birth, in the trees of tropical South America.
Amazons are nocturnal hunters, so they're even more fun to watch at night. All night long they can be seen either actively cruising in search of prey, or hanging motionless from a branch in an S-shaped body curve trying to imitate a hanging vine, just waiting for some unsuspecting prey item to come walking by. Active foraging is much more typical with younger/smaller Amazons than with larger adults, who tend to spend the night hanging in an "S-Shape".
Todo mês de agosto os rios paraenses obedecem a um fenômeno da natureza: a vazante, período de menor volume de água. É ela a responsável pelo aparecimento de mais de 200 praias fluviais que brotam na região amazônica nessa época, revelando grandes extensões de areia branca e macia, bem como desvelando uma rica vegetação.
Uma das praias, porém, é tida como a mais bela: a de Alter do Chão. Apelidada pelos nativos de "Caribe brasileiro", ela dá ao turista o gostinho de ter encontrado o paraíso perdido.
Magnificamente localizada na margem esquerda do rio Tapajós, a cerca de 32 km de Santarém, durante o ano inteiro, Alter do Chão é uma vila de pescadores com pouco mais de 6.000 habitantes. Mas, na época de seca, ela ganha todas as atenções. O nível da água chega a baixar dez metros, o que proporciona o surgimento de cerca de 100 km de praias. As condições são convidativas: chove pouco, a temperatura média é de 30C, e a umidade, 88%.
Alter do Chão, como boa parte das vilas e cidades paraenses, carrega no nome a influência portuguesa. O vilarejo conheceu dias prósperos, quando foi entreposto de abastecimento de lenha das embarcações que faziam a viagem Belém-Manaus, e no pós-guerra, com o desenvolvimento trazido pela exploração da borracha por Henry Ford. Quando a indústria fordista passou a comprar borracha asiática, na década de 70, a região estagnou. Agora, tenta retomar o crescimento incentivando o turismo.
Longe dos períodos de pico --setembro e Réveillon--, em que o tranqüilo vilarejo chega a receber dez vezes o número de moradores, é possível encontrar praias totalmente desertas ou andar quilômetros sem ser visto. Em setembro, dá para chegar a Alter de Chão a partir de Santarém pela praia, de jipe ou de moto.
Nas ruas também encontram-se estrangeiros ou migrantes, que abandonaram a terra natal depois de se encantar pela vila, confirmando o poder apaixonante de suas águas e praias.
Pterophyllum scalare, most commonly referred to as angelfish or freshwater angelfish, is the most common species of Pterophyllum kept in captivity. It is native to the Amazon Basin in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. Particularly to the Ucayali river in Peru, the Oyapock River in French Guiana, the Essequibo River in Guyana, the Solimões, the Amapá, and the Amazon rivers in Brazil. It is found in swamps or flooded grounds where vegetation is dense and the water is either clear or silty. Its native water conditions range from a pH of 6.0 to 7.0, a water hardness range of 3 to 10 °dH, and water temperature ranging from 26 to 30 °C (75 to 86 °F). This is the species of angelfish most frequently found in the aquarium trade. A similar (cross-breeding possible) P. scalare exists in the Orinoco. They are of the same size and shape, the only difference being its stripes: the Orinoco P. scalare has thinner, but dual stripes.
As in many aquarium fishes, inbreeding is a problem. All strange colours are due to heavy inbreeding. In the wild this species is as strong as most other cichlids of similar weight, but strong individuals are very rare in today's aquarium trade. Hence P. scalare should not be kept together with other South American cichlids. If the water isn't "hard" (max. 10 dGH, pH-level matters less for breeding, but should always be between 6.0 and 7.5), this fish breeds very easily after raising the temperature (typically from 26–27 °C to 29–30 °C), but eggs may die and their fry are extremely sensitive to water changes of all kinds for several weeks.
First described by Liechtenstein in 1823, First import to Europe (Germany) by C.Ziggelkow, Hamburg in 1909.
This fish is a resident of Brighton's Sealife centre which has original Victorian architecture of the oldest operating aquarium in the world. Based opposite the iconic pier, SEA LIFE Brighton was built in 1872 and features 3,500 mesmerising creatures including inquisitive sea turtles and magnificent magnificent sharks.
Here at SEA LIFE Brighton visitors can see them all - from the curious and the rescued to the rare and the enigmatic.
Here in the Rainforest Adventure visitors step out of the Victorian Arcade and into the hot and humid rainforest to experience what life is like beneath the tropical treetops. Winding through the roots and tree trunks, rainforest rivers are home to some spectacular fish. Through the roots of a giant tree an Anaconda welcomes you to her home. A trail leads visitors towards a mystical ruined temple where magical Water dragons, colourful Poison Dart Frogs and fearsome Piranhas reside. Around 58,0000 square miles of forest are lost each year to deforestation. That's equivalent to 36 football pitches each minute!
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Common name: Blue-fronted Amazon
Scientific name: Amazona aestiva
Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
Conservation status (IUCN): Least Concern
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The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poem of Frederic Mistral.
Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poetry of Frederic Mistral. Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology.
Mireille is also an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. Gounod was charmed by the originality of the work, the story being much less contrived than many of those on the operatic stage at the time. During the course of composition Gounod spent much time in Provence (12 March to the end of May 1863), visiting the sites of the action in the poem/opera, and met Mistral on several occasions at his home in Maillane. Gounod stayed at the Hôtel de la Ville Vert in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and was treated to a banquet by the townspeople on May 26. Presenting class differences in a rural setting was not usual at the time, and as Huebner comments "some early reviewers had difficulty accepting that a 'mere' country girl could sing a heroic aria such as "En marche". It has been argued that "what matters in this extended lyric poem is not the story but the rich tapestry or Provençal traditions, beliefs and customs"
American Airlines (AA) - Boeing 767-323ER - N371AA (c/n 25198/431)
UPDATE (November 2018) - N371AA was delivered new to American Airlines in May 1992. N371AA continued in operation with American until November 2015, when it was withdrawn from service and placed into storage at Roswell International Air Center (ROW / KROW), near Roswell, New Mexico. The aircraft would remain at Roswell until November 21, 2016. On that date, it was acquired by Cargo Air Management (CAM). CAM would then fly N371AA to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV / LLBG), outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, on November 28, 2016. There, the aircraft was converted by IAI Bedek into a 767-300ER Bedek Special Freighter (BDSF) for cargo operations, with the conversion completed in May 2017. On June 13, 2017, the aircraft would enter service with Air Transport International (ATI) (re-registered as N353AZ) and operated on behalf of Amazon Prime Air, transporting Amazon.com orders to Amazon's various distribution hubs.
La tienda de aplicaciones para Android que ofrecía Google cambió su faceta. Ahora se llama Google Play y ofrece un amplio catálogo de contenidos para los usuarios.
El servicio será una fuerte competencia para Apple, que a través de iTunes comercializa libros, canciones, series y películas. También lo será para Amazon, uno de los más afianzados en el mundo de las descargas pagas.
La tienda, disponible desde el 26 de marzo, tiene más de 20 mil canciones gratis, casi medio millón de juegos y aplicaciones, una importante selección de libros electrónicos y miles de películas en alta definición para alquilar en línea.
You might have heard of Google Prime which is all set to take on Amazon Prime. What do you think? Will it take off or will it fizzle out? gizmodo.com/5864223/google-wants-to-create-an-amazon-prim...
Boats make their way along a tributary of the Amazon River near Murutinga, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
The Brazilian flag flutters in the wind off the stern of the John Wesley medical boat as it makes its way along the Amazon River near Autazes, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
A burned and fragmented forest in the Brazilian Amazon. A collaboration led by an Oregon State University College of Forestry researcher has used very-high-resolution satellite imagery to develop a machine learning model that aims to improve climate scientists’ ability to estimate carbon stocks in the Amazon. The new VHR-based model considers forest degradation caused by fire and selective logging as well as the degradation’s effect on carbon storage.