Jungle Gallery I

A friendly moment between two macaws.

A macaw at rest, sporting his huge nut-cracking beak and some lovely plumage.

The maccaws would be nuzzling each other one moment and fighting the next. This picture showed the beautiful colours in the wings as they were flapping about.

We got a course in jungle medicine. This particular medicine comes conveniently as an infusion of alcohol in shots :-)

River view, Madre de Dios, Peru.

"I swear something just moved down there."

Christina tests the effectiveness of DEET.

Our guide told us not to ever get stung by the bullet ant.

Pretending to be a twig, pretty well.

Green tree frog looking sly.

Adventurous tadpole making use of the brand new appendages.

Green parrots gathering to lick minerals from the clay.

Christina channels her inner monkey.

Christina shows us how gigantic jungle trees stay upright with shallow roots: buttresses.

Bamboo in the Amazon really doesn't like monkeys climbing it.