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Title: Tropical Rainforest Ecology


1
Tropical Rainforest Ecology
  • Rainforest Animal Life

2
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

3
Sights and SoundsAlong the Trail
  • Howler Monkeys roar at dawn

4
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Cicadas alternating tones

5
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Parrots and Macaws squeeks
  • and squawks

6
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • White-tailed trogon soft call
  • Screaming piha whip crack

7
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Leaf- cutting ants well worn trails

8
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Peccary snorts as it roots

9
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Agouti tailless fruit eating rodent

10
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Iguana arboreal

11
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Blue Morpho butterfly

12
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Amazon kingfisher

13
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Army ants in column troops

14
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • antbirds
  • rufous-capped antthrush

  • black-spotted bare-eye

15
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • Nunbird


  • white-plumed antbird

16
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail
  • barred woodcreeper
  • rufous motmot

17
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night
  • Tinamou
  • Bats LOTS of them!

18
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night
  • Coati
  • Kinkajou

19
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Night
  • Ocelot
  • Jaguar

20
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps
  • Cecropia trees
  • Three-toed sloth

21
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps
  • Heliconia plants
  • Long-tailed hermit hummingbird

22
Sights and Sounds Along the Trail at Gaps
  • Geoffreys tamarin
  • Many brilliantly colored birds

23
Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy
  • Harpy eagle

24
  • Pompadour cotinga
  • Spangled cotinga
  • Collared trogon

25
Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy
  • Long-haired saki monkey
  • Amazon dwarf squirrel

26
Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy
  • Howler Monkey

27
Sights and Sounds Up in the Canopy
  • Lots of bromeliads
  • Leaf cutting ants will even venture up hundreds
    of feet into canopy
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