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Pics from the Colombian Amazon

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These " Pics from the Colombian Amazon " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.

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Brown lizard with red markings


Brown centipede on the trunk of a canopy tree


Tree frog


Bromeliads in the rainforest canopy


Bromeliads in the rainforest canopy


Butterfly high in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon


Closeup of bromeliads growing in the Amazon rainforest canopy


Bromeliads in the canopy of the Amazon rain forest


Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy


Ladder into the rain forest canopy


Camouflaged grey anolis lizard high in the forest canopy of the Amazon


Amazon forest canopy as seen at eye level


Amazon rainforest canopy as seen at eye level


Flowering bromeliads high in the rain forest canopy


Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy


Bromeliad atop a rainforest canopy tree


Rainforest canopy tree


Canopy platform in the Amazon rainforest


Slogging through a swamp in the Amazon rainforest


Buttress roots in the Amazon swamp forest


Buttress roots of a canopy tree in the Amazon swamp forest


Debrius floating down the Amazon river


Yellow-handed Titi Monkey


Common woolly monkey


Brown praying mantis on a lichen-covered tree trunk




Acrobatic woolly monkey


Red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) howling


Common woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothricha)


Colombian black spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris)


Emergent canopy tree near a cattle pasture in the Amazon


Ticuna child in a doorway of a hut in San Martin


Ticuna child playing with a plastic toy


Ticuna girl


Ticuna child in San Martin


Oropendula nests along the Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river


Light green katydid


Moth that has been invaded by a parasitic fungus


Walking palm


Stick insect with orange feet


Gray frog changing from tadpole to adult form


Moss-like caterpillar covered with poisonous spines


Neon green caterpillar in the Amazon rainforest


Can you find the leaf frog (Bufo typhonius)?


Butterfly with transparent wings, eye-spots, and orange-rust coloration


Wasp nest under a rainforest leaf


Clear-wing butterfly in the Colombian Amazon


Black caterpillar with long white hairs, a yellow stripe, and red parts


Hut in an Amerindian communal garden


Black caterpillar with orange spots


Black caterpillar with orange spots


Gray grasshopper


Grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches


Unknown grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches


Unknown katydid


Green grasshopper feeding on a leaf


Multi-colored grasshopper


Leaf-mimicking grasshopper


Black beetle with yellow zigzag pattern


Rio Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river, at Sunset


Rio Amacayacu


Kitchen at our camp site in the Amazon rainforest


Yellow and black spider in its web


Mottled gray and black grasshopper


Brown leaf katydid in the Colombian Amazon


White moth spotted on a night walk in the Colombian Amazon


Large brown cricket in the Amazon rainforest


Bright green katydid










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