The Amazon Rainforest

The massive rainforest that occupies over five million square kilometers of South America is not only the largest of its kind on the planet, but also the oldest, and most biodiverse. In the area of the Amazon which sits on the Peruvian side of the boarder alone, scientists have noted 2,500 species of butterflies, 806 species of birds, and around 8000 species of plants. It's astounding to see firsthand. On any given walk through the rainforest you'll see an astonishing variety of plants, insects, and if you're lucky, some of the bigger and more exotic wildlife. And all of these species have had millions of years to differentiate and evolve - this is the oldest land ecosystem on earth, after all. You'll likely hear more than you see, and you certainly won't find animals posing for the camera, but hit the link for what I was able to capture in the wild jungle of South America.

1	2	3	4	5 Tree frog	6
7 Capuchin monkey. Our guide called him a "cappuccino monkey".	8 The red howler monkey. An entire family of them travelled overhead of us. He was the only one who posed.	9	10	11	12 A group of Scarlet Macaws in the canopy.
13 Blue and yellow macaws.	14	15	16 Capped Heron	17	18
19	20 Owl Butterfly	21	22 Amazon kingfisher	23	24
25	26 The upper Tambopata River	27 dwarf caimon.	28	29	30
31	32	33	34 bats!	35	36
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43 I need a macro lens! Tree cutter ants.	44	45	46	47	48
49	50 On our last night we had a sloth eating in a tree a few feet from our balcony!	51	52 Puerto Maldonado - The city in the middle of the jungle.	53 The Interoceanic Highway crossed the Madre De Dios river.	54
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