Blogs from Ecuador, South America - page 627

kyle and i head out of here on wednesday! its been a busy week for us because there is only 6 of us. we have had a new cappuchin monkey that is really amazing at escaping. it really is unbelievable how he escaped four times this week. it has taken up quite a bit of time for us to go chasing him down but it is always entertaining. we got a bunch of new turtles that came in from different homes and such and the back of the police truck had blood all over it from the turtles. when we asked the police about it they said they were all the way they found them from their homes. it is really a strange feeling when you are carrying an animal and then see it´s blood on ... read more

In the Shiripuno River birding is great pleasure, from Magpie Tanager from the river in the motorized canoes, the White-throated Toucan is the easy bird to spot, the Scarlet Macaw, Speckled Chachalaca, Black-capped Donacobious, Blackish Antbird, Spangled Cotinga, and luckily Salvin's Curassow on the shore, caimans basking along the river. In the forest mixed-species flock with Long-tailed Woodcreepeper, White-chinned Woodcreeper, Long-winged Antwren, Rufous-tailed Foliage-Gleaner, Black-faced Antbird. Rarities such us Wing-banded Antbird, Rufous.tailed Flatbill, White-crested Spadebill, Long-tailed Potoo, Red-and-Green macaw and Musician Wren Army Ants always have their professionals fallowing them the like White-plummed Antbird, Black-spotted Bare-eye, Hairy-crested Antbird and others. The Hoatzin (foto) is the most bizarre bird in the Amazon, when the are chicks they have claws on ... read more

The Shiripuno Research Center is situated in the most remote place of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Behind the Yasuni National Park and inside the Waorani Anthropological Reserve at 90 km (55,92 mi) south from Coca, is looking for volunteers, to work in the Butterfly Study, and making The Trail Network, from 1 month to 3 month promise. Volunteering hand is always rewarded, for the people interested are one the best way to learn about the Amazon. Contact: Fernando Vaca (vaca@shiripunoresearch.org) ... read more

so the most exciting thing that happened this week is us getting by without leon! we have been cleaning the cages and such, everything like usual. kyle and greg cleaned out the big cats this week and the not-so-small lion cubs. with the lion cubs, they seemed really confused by what was going on. we tried to put them into an enclosure down at the end of their cage and it was working out fine. The lions are named Moku and Manu. i was distracting them while the guys were in the cage cleaning. moku was doing fine playing with me and a soccer ball but manu started to walk around and jumped up on the concrete part of the cage and realized that he could stick his paws through. shortly after he realized if he ... read more

There is just one word to describe the Galápagos Islands which is either AwesomeHasToBeSeenToBeBelievedKindOfPlace or simply wow. Hope you understand that I had to add a million pictures I simply could not decide which to let out. The history of the Islands is the reason why this place is so amazing. The Galapagos Islands are a group of volcanic islands which were created over a couple of million years through a static hotspot in the earths crust. The tectonic plates over the hotspot shift and new Islands are created every now and then even today. Therefore the island the furthest away from the hotspot are the oldest. The last proper volcanic eruption was in 1998. The Islands where never connected to the mainland and the animals and plants migrated at one stage to the Islands but ... read more