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Unicorns of the sky, these birds "sword fight" with their feather horns to mate and show dominance. Known by locals as the "Donkey bird" their calls sound exactly like donkeys.
Amazon Poison Dartfrog or Reticulated Poison Frog (Ranitomeya variabilis, formerly Ranitomeya ventrimaculata or Dendrobates ventrimaculata, originally Dendrobates minutus ventrimaculata), Bauchflecken-Baumsteiger, Explornapo Canopy Walkway, Rio Napo rainforest area, Loreto, Peru
Very complicated and sometimes conflicting taxonomy of this very little beauty (15-20 mm!!!). They were found at the inflows of the Amazon River in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brasil and another occurence would be in French Guyana.
They are one of the species that live not on the ground of the rainforest but high up in the trees. In this case it was about 30 m above the ground. Usually and most of the time they live in and around a bromeliad.
Unfortunately poor quality shot. However, I took this with my big lense (400 mm) and hand-held. There was no time to fumble around with a tripod, the frogs were running quickly up the tree. That's best I could manage with PS.
Please, look through the whole comment section, there are some other images...
Interesting facts:
Let's talk about the reproduction and developement of the little dartfrogs in the rainforest. The adult frogs will check if the bromelia is already occupied by another tadpole, own one or different ones. Usually there is not enough food for more than one tadpole in this miniature pond within the bromelia. It will feed the little algae from the walls of the funnel. So the parents will put their eggs in different tank bromeliads to ensure there will be enough food for one. Astonishingly, if there is already a tadpole in the bromeliad, this tadpole can "alert" the frog: Already occupied. The developement will last quite a longtime under these "unfavorable" conditions. Remember: There are no other nutrition nor minerales in this environment. From time to time, the female may lay some other eggs in the funnel to feed the tadpole with its "own" eggs. These very intensive and resource consuming parental care under difficult conditions will succeed in survival of the individuum. But a few questions arise: Why is it specially in the neotropics around the Amazon River often the case that many of these species will avoid the water for breeding. I will focus on these question later in other posts.
Another interesting story is diversity and variability versus frequency of these species. Let's make some comparison with the amphibians in Central Europe. In the eastern Peruvian rainforest scientists had found about 40 different species per 1 qkm. In Europe there were about 12 different species found on 1 million (!) qkm, meaning about 10% of the species amount in the rainforest of Peru. But the weight of one Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus), which is the largest frog in Central Europe, is about 100 times the weight of a little dartfrog. So compared to the rainforest wildlife around a garden or forest pond is much more abundant than the wildlife in the rainforest. However, there is only 1 or 3 different species around where as in the rainforest you will find on the same area up to 20 to 30 different species. But you will never see such an extremely mass of frogs and toads in the rainforest as you may see in the outer tropic regions. Enemy pressure and food resources are all the time key issues for survival of a species. In the outer tropics nature will do this by masses of spawn in the rainforest it is a sophisticated and intense parental care. Nature will not have any other choice: There are unfavorable conditions and low availabilty of food resources in the rainforest.
These roots hold the earth of all the land together so when it floods- the ground doesn't shift during the underwater months.
Embarquement à Belèm sur le Clivia, un bateau de transport de marchandises et de passagers, pour 3 jours de navigation sur l'Amazone et ses affluents afin de rejoindre Santarèm en Amazonie.
Expérience humaine fabuleuse et aventure extra-ordinaire...
Pendant ces 3 jours on se laisse bercer par les remous et la fausse tranquillité de l'Amazone, le plus grand fleuve du monde !
Rêve de gosse que de se retrouver sur ce fleuve et dans cette région du monde pour laquelle aucun superlatif n'est assez fort ou puissant pour la représenter...
La promiscuité est présente sur le bateau mais elle est source de rencontres, de sourires et d'éclats de rire ! chaque jour est une aventure en soi même au gré des arrêts dans les villes et les villages, des accostages par les enfants, de la musique qui est forte et tout le temps présente !
Mes compagnons de voyage sont des chercheurs d'or, des commerçants ou bien encore des indiens retournant dans leur village...
La nature est là, partout, exubérante, sauvage et indomptée...
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The Meeting of Waters is the meeting between the dark waters of the Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored waters of the Amazon River. For 6 km (3.7 mi) the two waters of the rivers run side by side without mixing. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus.
This phenomenon is due to the differences in temperature, speed and water density of the two rivers. The Rio Negro flows at near 2 km/h (1.2 mph) at a temperature of 28 °C (82 °F), while the Rio Solimões flows between 4 and 6 km/h (2.5–3.7 mph) at a temperature of 22 °C (72 °F).
Manaus, Brazil and Vicinity
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On the Amazon we met up with this floating "fish pen" vessel heading for Iquitos to sell their valued cargo of pineapple fish, named that because of their particular pineapple-like scales. They had been traveling as you see in this photograph for four days and still expected another day before reaching Iquitos's market.