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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Amazon water lilies in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Poisonous Automeris moth caterpillar displaying its neon green but venemous spines
(Colombia)
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False coral snake
(Colombia)
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Orange, green, black, yellow, and turquoise grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Red Bill Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)
(Colombia)
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White Victoria amazonica flower
(Colombia)
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Jaguar (Panthera onca)
(Colombia)
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Red howler monkey howling
(Colombia)
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Oxbow lake filled with Amazon water lilies in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Canopy access platform in the flooded swamp forest of the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Boa constrictor in defensive mode
(Colombia)
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Brown tree frog (Osteocephalus planiceps) near Puerto Nariño
(Colombia)
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Black, orange, and light blue butterfly on a Heliconia leaf, possibly Ithomia pellucida or the "Blue transparent"
(Colombia)
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Amazon River in flood
(Colombia)
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Ocelot
(Colombia)
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Butterfly in the Amazon rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Grassy riverbank of an Amazon tributary
(Colombia)
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Headshot of a tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
(Colombia)
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Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)
(Colombia)
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Blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
(Colombia)
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Oropendula nests silhouetted by sundown over the Amacayacu
(Colombia)
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Platform in the flooded swamp forest
(Colombia)
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Juvenile caiman
(Colombia)
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Common green iguana (Iguana iguana) on a tree trunk in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Emergent tree rising above the Amazon rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Borugo (Agouti taczanowskii)
(Colombia)
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Pair of "rainbow" grasshoppers
(Colombia)
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Camping in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Leaf in the rainforest understory
(Colombia)
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Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja, in Colombia
(Colombia)
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New Victoria amazonica leaf
(Colombia)
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Black Caiman (Melanosucus niger) among water hyacinth
(Colombia)
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Anaconda with tongue extended
(Colombia)
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Giant black and red jungle tarantula, possibly Pamphobeteus petersi or Red rump tarantula (Brachypelma vagans)
(Colombia)
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Red and brown butterfly
(Colombia)
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Rainforest canopy walkway in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Woolly monkey hanging upside down
(Colombia)
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Green Katydid near Puerto Nariño
(Colombia)
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Chestnut-fronted Macaw
(Colombia)
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Brown and green Leaf Beetle, family Chrysomelidae
(Colombia)
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Flotsam in the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
(Colombia)
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Multi-colored grasshoppers
(Colombia)
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Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Leaf toad (probably Rhinella cf. margaritifer) among leaf litter.
(Colombia)
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Black skimmer (family Libellulidae) with red posterior parts (abdominal segments)
(Colombia)
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Looking up at a canopy platform in a Kapok tree
(Colombia)
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The canopy of the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Emerging Victoria amazonica leaf
(Colombia)
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Green iguana swimming across a river
(Colombia)
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Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Rasberry dragonfly
(Colombia)
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Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Orange and yellow Leaf Beetle, family Chrysomelidae
(Colombia)
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Ranch along the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Flooded forest in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Flooded forest in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Boa constrictor in defensive mode [co02-0107]
(Colombia)
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Platform in the rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Brown-throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax)
(Colombia)
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Deforestation for cattle pasture in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia
(Colombia)
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Colombian Ocelot
(Colombia)
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Jaguar (Panthera onca) [co06-1412]
(Colombia)
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Woolly monkeys
(Colombia)
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Colombian Green iguana (Iguana iguana) on a tree trunk in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Pamphobeteus petersi or Red rump tarantula (Brachypelma vagans) in the Amazon rainforest [formerly labeled the Amazon Pink Toed tarantula (Avicularia amazonica)]
(Colombia)
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Brown cockroach with yellow and black markings
(Colombia)
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False coral snake (Anilius scytale)
(Colombia)
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Towering Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Bromeliad in the Amazon rain forest canopy
(Colombia)
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Organic solar cell
(Colombia)
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Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
(Colombia)
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Amazon meadow
(Colombia)
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Anole lizard in the Amazon rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Brown spider [co05-0668]
(Colombia)
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White insect with light orange spots, family Fulgoridae
(Colombia)
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White insect with black spots and an orange head
(Colombia)
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Rainforest meadow in the Amazon near Puerto Nariño
(Colombia)
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Fer de Lance (Bothrops asper)
(Colombia)
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Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja
(Colombia)
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Brown leaf katydid
(Colombia)
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Close-up on a leaf grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Yellow and black Tiger Ratsnake (Spilotes pullatus). Identification by Anna Vittone
(Colombia)
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Bright green caterpillar displaying its toxic spines in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Black agouti (Dasyprocta fuliginosa)
(Colombia)
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Orange and black Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae
(Colombia)
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Tropical Rat Snake (Spilotes pullatus). Identification by Anna Vittone
(Colombia)
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Raised walkways and houses of Leticia, Colombia
(Colombia)
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White flower blossom of Victoria amazonica
(Colombia)
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Buttress roots of an Amazon rainforest tree
(Colombia)
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Victoria amazonica water lilies in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf
(Colombia)
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Rainbow grasshopper [co05-0798]
(Colombia)
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Close up of the Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), the world's longest snake
(Colombia)
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Fer de Lance (Bothrops asper) viper
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy
(Colombia)
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Overhead view of forest clearing in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Amazon spider
(Colombia)
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Canary-winged Parakeet
(Colombia)
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Caterpillar with an orange head and yellow-white and black bands
(Colombia)
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Green anaconda near a river edge in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Overhead view of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Black, orange, and light blue butterfly, possibly Ithomia pellucida or the "Blue transparent"
(Colombia)
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Forest green centipede with yellow legs and dark red antenna - Parotostigmus rex (Peruvian yellow leg centipede)
(Colombia)
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Harpy eagle, profile head shot
(Colombia)
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Green skimmer (family Libellulidae, probably genus Erythemis) with alternating green and black abdominal segments - or Great Pondhawk dragonfly
(Colombia)
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Borugo (Agouti taczanowskii) in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Green iguana in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Anaconda
(Colombia)
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Brown moth with light yellow markings on its wings
(Colombia)
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Tiger Ratsnake (Spilotes pullatus). Identification by Anna Vittone
(Colombia)
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Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) stalking its prey
(Colombia)
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Victoria amazonica
(Colombia)
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Giant Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Gray grasshopper (Abracris flavolineata)
(Colombia)
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Jaguar licking its chops
(Colombia)
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Jaguar
(Colombia)
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Red-Snouted Treefrog (Ololygon rubra) [ID uncertain]. ID suggestion by Anna Vittone
(Colombia)
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Ticuna child playing with a plastic toy
(Colombia)
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Young Giant Amazon Water Lily, Victoria amazonica
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the rainforest canopy [co04-0957]
(Colombia)
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Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus) [co03-9452]
(Colombia)
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Amazon homestead
(Colombia)
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Bright green katydid [co05-0859]
(Colombia)
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Lizard on a tree trunk
(Colombia)
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Shallow-rooted rainforest canopy trees often have buttress roots for support
(Colombia)
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Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima) - juvenile
(Colombia)
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Debrius floating down the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Sunset over the Amazon river [co06-1237]
(Colombia)
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Jaguar (Panthera onca) [co06-1367]
(Colombia)
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Yellow-handed Titi Monkey [co04-1085]
(Colombia)
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Black spider monkey in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Mountain Paca (Agouti taczanowskii) in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Light green katydid
(Colombia)
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Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima) - juvenile [co07-0579a]
(Colombia)
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Emergent canopy tree near a cattle pasture in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Moth that has been invaded by a parasitic fungus
(Colombia)
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Bromeliad atop a rainforest canopy tree
(Colombia)
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Neon green caterpillar in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Dendrpsophus cf microcephala frog [co04-0936a]
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper feeding on a leaf
(Colombia)
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The Amazon River near Leticia, Colombia
(Colombia)
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Gray frog (Dendropsophus sp) changing from tadpole to adult form (postmetamorphic)
(Colombia)
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A main street in Puerto Nariño, an ecologically-sensitive city in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia
(Colombia)
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Acrobatic woolly monkey
(Colombia)
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Oropendula nests along the Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Boa constrictor in defensive mode [co02-0109]
(Colombia)
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Red ginger (Alpinia purpurata)
(Colombia)
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Buttress roots in the Amazon swamp forest
(Colombia)
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Toad formerly known as Bufo typhonius, probably Bufo cf. margaritifer. Identification by Alexander Gostner.
(Colombia)
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Amazon forest canopy as seen at eye level
(Colombia)
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Black vulture (Coragyps atratus) in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Unknown grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches
(Colombia)
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Blue morpho with wings closed
(Colombia)
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Green parrot [co07-0506]
(Colombia)
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Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja, at a rehabilitation center
(Colombia)
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Indian wrestling an Anaconda in Leticia
(Colombia)
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Black skimmer (family Libellulidae) with red rearparts
(Colombia)
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Ectatomma tuberculatum stick insect with orange feet on an Inga legume plant
(Colombia)
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Parrot [br_co-9999]
(Colombia)
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Snake anti-venom
(Colombia)
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Black caterpillar with long white hairs, a yellow stripe, and red parts
(Colombia)
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Brown leaf katydid in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Yellow-handed titi at an Amazon rehabilitation center
(Colombia)
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Ocelot [br_co-0367]
(Colombia)
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Ticuna child in a doorway of a hut in San Martin
(Colombia)
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Parrot [br_co-9994]
(Colombia)
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Victoria amazonica 'lips'
(Colombia)
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Ticuna girl
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of a meandering stream in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Common woolly monkey
(Colombia)
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Large brown cricket in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Mottled gray and black grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Large black caiman in an oxbow lake
(Colombia)
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White moth spotted on a night walk in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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View from an airplane of Colombia's Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Camouflaged grey anolis lizard high in the forest canopy of the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Boa constrictor in "strike" position
(Colombia)
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Hut in an Amerindian communal garden
(Colombia)
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Kitchen at our camp site in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Anilius scytale coral snake
(Colombia)
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Orange butterfly feeding on damp laundry along an Amazon tributary
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of forest and small scale agricultural clearing in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Brown Gonatodes humeralis gecko with red markings
(Colombia)
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Woolly monkey in a tree
(Colombia)
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Grasshopper: black head, red antenna, yellow stripes, green legs, red haunches
(Colombia)
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Orange butterfly feeding on damp laundry
(Colombia)
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Butterfly with transparent wings, eye-spots, and orange-rust coloration (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of likely indigenous forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia
(Colombia)
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Red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) howling
(Colombia)
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False coral snake [co02-0146]
(Colombia)
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Unknown butterfly
(Colombia)
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Yellow and black spider in its web
(Colombia)
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Face of a Harpy Eagle, the world's largest eagle
(Colombia)
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Multi-colored grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Queen Victoria water lily in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Canopy platform in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Raised houses of Leticia
(Colombia)
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Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
(Colombia)
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Overhead view of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Amazon water lily shaped like a pair of lips
(Colombia)
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Harpy eagle with its beak open
(Colombia)
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Moss-like caterpillar covered with poisonous spines
(Colombia)
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Mothers and sons in a dugout on the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Victoria amazonica water lilies in the Amazon [co07-0289]
(Colombia)
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Clear-wing butterfly in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Sunset over the Amazon river in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Outskirts of Leticia, on the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy [co04-1024]
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of the Amazon river [co02-0049]
(Colombia)
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Yellow-headed Soldier Fly, family Stratiomyidae (a true fly that resembles a bee)
(Colombia)
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Ticuna child in San Martin
(Colombia)
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Flowering bromeliads high in the rain forest canopy
(Colombia)
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Green parrot
(Colombia)
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Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
(Colombia)
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Clouds over the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Brown millipede (Polydesmidae family) on the trunk of a canopy tree. Identification by Alexander Gostner.
(Colombia)
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Buttress roots provide support for an Amazon rainforest tree
(Colombia)
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Monk saki monkey (Pithecia monachus) [co06-1190]
(Colombia)
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Puerto Nariño
(Colombia)
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Rio Amacayacu
(Colombia)
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Church in central plaza of Leticia
(Colombia)
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Mating Abracris flavolineata grasshoppers on a blade of grass
(Colombia)
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Unknown katydid
(Colombia)
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Socratea exorrhiza (Family Arecaceae/Palmae) [Walking palm]
(Colombia)
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Stream crossing in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Sundown in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Ants in a symbiotic relationship with a plant in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Brown praying mantis on a lichen-covered tree trunk
(Colombia)
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Ticuna children playing with a pet rodent
(Colombia)
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Close headshot of a tapir
(Colombia)
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South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus)
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the canopy of the Amazon rain forest
(Colombia)
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Wooly Monkey, not the Colombian black spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris)
(Colombia)
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Green anaconda underwater
(Colombia)
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Golden-eyed tree frog near Puerto Nariño. Readers have suggeste either the Red-Snouted Treefrog (Ololygon rubra) or Osteocephalus planiceps
(Colombia)
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Rainforest canopy tree
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of an Oxbow lake off the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Wasp nest under a rainforest leaf
(Colombia)
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Black and orange Assassin Bug, family Reduviidae
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of the Amazon river as it forms the border between Colombia and Peru
(Colombia)
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Leaf-mimicking grasshopper
(Colombia)
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Victoria amazonica flower
(Colombia)
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Banyon tree in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of the Amazon river [co02-0061]
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
(Colombia)
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Rio Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river, at Sunset
(Colombia)
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South American rattlesnake
(Colombia)
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Bright green shrub
(Colombia)
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Jaguar opening its mouth
(Colombia)
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Red ceacilian (an amphibian) on the floor of the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Black caterpillar with orange spots
(Colombia)
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Small hornet nest on a Heliconia leaf
(Colombia)
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Amazon water lilies in Leticia
(Colombia)
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Closeup of bromeliads growing in the Amazon rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Butterfly high in the rainforest canopy of the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Brown buterfly with red, white, lavendar, and orange markings
(Colombia)
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Common woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothricha)
(Colombia)
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Blue and gold macaw (Ara ararauna)
(Colombia)
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Buttress roots of a canopy tree in the Amazon swamp forest
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of the Amazon river [co02-0057]
(Colombia)
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Sunset over the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Airplane view of slash-and-burn forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia
(Colombia)
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Jaguar (Panthera onca) [co06-1408]
(Colombia)
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Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus albigena)
(Colombia)
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Slogging through a swamp in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Amazon rainforest canopy as seen at eye level
(Colombia)
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Reeds along the Amazon river
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy [co04-0978]
(Colombia)
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Port marketplace in Leticia
(Colombia)
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River boats in Leticia
(Colombia)
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Blue and gold macaw
(Colombia)
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Black caterpillar with orange spots [co05-0759a]
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the rainforest canopy
(Colombia)
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Ladder into the rain forest canopy
(Colombia)
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Raised homes in Leticia
(Colombia)
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Black beetle with yellow zigzag pattern (Pleasing Fungus Beetle, family Erotylidae)
(Colombia)
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Amazon river port at Leticia
(Colombia)
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Insect-weary leaf in the rainforest understory
(Colombia)
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Amazon Maloca [br_co-9895]
(Colombia)
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Kitchen in an Amazon home
(Colombia)
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Amazon rainforest camp site set up, with tarp
(Colombia)
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Brother and sister in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy [co04-1027]
(Colombia)
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River in Colombia (view from an airplane)
(Colombia)
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Alouatta seniculus
(Colombia)
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Sunset over the Amazon near Puerto Nariño
(Colombia)
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Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
(Colombia)
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Black spider monkey in the Colombian Amazon [co06-1183a]
(Colombia)
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Masses of bromeliads in a rainforest tree
(Colombia)
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Potential coca plantation in the Amazon rainforest
(Colombia)
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Ascending to the canopy [co04-0954]
(Colombia)
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Aerial view of a winding river in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Deforestation (aerial view)
(Colombia)
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Forest clearing near a rainforest stream in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Butterfly with transparent wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)
(Colombia)
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Green grasshopper with black eyes
(Colombia)
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Bromeliads (Neoregelia carolinae) in the Amazon rain forest canopy [co04-1006]
(Colombia)
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