Tropical Rainforest Ecology

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Tropical Rainforest Ecology

• Rainforest Animal Life

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Trail Guidelines Etiquette

• Dont go alone
• Watch yourself (i.e. where you step and what you
  brush up against)
• Stay on trails
• Take a rain poncho for sudden downpours
• Wear shoes with good traction
• Wear dark-colored clothing
• Move slowly and quietly
• Look for movement (binoculars will be handy) and
  listen for sounds

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Sights and SoundsAlong the Trail

• Howler Monkeys roar at dawn

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Cicadas alternating tones

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Parrots and Macaws squeeks
• and squawks

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• White-tailed trogon soft call
• Screaming piha whip crack

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Leaf- cutting ants well worn trails

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Peccary snorts as it roots

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Agouti tailless fruit eating rodent

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Iguana arboreal

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Blue Morpho butterfly

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Amazon kingfisher

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Army ants in column troops

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• antbirds
• rufous-capped antthrush
• 
  black-spotted bare-eye

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• Nunbird
• 
  
  white-plumed antbird

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail

• barred woodcreeper
• rufous motmot

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night

• Tinamou
• Bats LOTS of them!

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night

• Coati
• Kinkajou

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night

• Ocelot
• Jaguar

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps

• Cecropia trees
• Three-toed sloth

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps

• Heliconia plants
• Long-tailed hermit hummingbird

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Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps

• Geoffreys tamarin
• Many brilliantly colored birds

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Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy

• Harpy eagle

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• Pompadour cotinga
• Spangled cotinga
• Collared trogon

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Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy

• Long-haired saki monkey
• Amazon dwarf squirrel

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Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy

• Howler Monkey

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Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy

• Lots of bromeliads
• Leaf cutting ants will even venture up hundreds
  of feet into canopy