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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) (Peru)
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Cat-eyed frog (Phyllomedusea vaillanti) (Peru)
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Silverback feeding while seated in leafy vegetation (Uganda)
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Anole lizard on vine (Peru)
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Monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) being handled by researcher [tambopata-Tambopata_1028_4606a] (Peru)
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Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) (0)
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Ant [suriname_0866] (Suriname)
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Metallic green beetle [suriname_2120] (Suriname)
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Butterfly rests on camera in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Green garden lizard (Ameiva ameiva) [suriname_2445] (Suriname)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Female Western lowland gorilla nursing a baby (0)
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Metallic blue beetle [suriname_2259] (Suriname)
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Insect [suriname_1488] (Suriname)
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Silhouette of a hornbill (unidentified species) in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia (Malaysia)
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Pink translucent butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Large snail in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Metallic green Euglossa bee (Suriname)
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White fly (Panama)
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Phelsuma day gecko in Morondava (Morondava) (Madagascar)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) and orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi) a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Caterpillar rolled in a leaf (Suriname)
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Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay (Peru)
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Termites [suriname_8942] (Suriname)
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Red lored parrots in flight (Costa Rica)
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Juvenile red-capped cardinal (Paroaria gularis) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Rhinatrema bivittatum caecilian (not a giant earthworm) with bottle cap for size comparison (Suriname)
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Egret (unidentified) flying over the Kinabantagan River in Sabah Malaysia (Malaysia)
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Golden-mantled tamarin (Saguinus tripartitus) raiding a banana garden in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Phelsuma gecko near Maroantsetra (Madagascar)
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Red-headed spider with yellow and black markings [suriname_0736] (Suriname)
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Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Uganda (Uganda)
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Scarlet macaws in flight [costa-rica_1155] (Costa Rica)
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Reeds along oxbow lake in the Amazon (Peru)
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Wild Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) (Peru)
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Baby sloth hugging a stuffed panda (Suriname)
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Atelopus toad (Suriname)
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Leaf cutter ant carrying leaf (Peru)
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Rainforest ant [suriname_8799] (Suriname)
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Mountain gorilla in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda)
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Pair of butterflies (Suriname)
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Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) [suriname_1267] (Suriname)
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Ants [manu-Manu_1023_1964b] (Peru)
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Calumma nasuta chameleon on hand (Madagascar)
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Mountain gorilla in Uganda (Uganda)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ants (Suriname)
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Cicada and anole lizard sharing a tree trunk (Peru)
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Brown insect (zoomed) (Panama)
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Phelsuma gecko (Ranomafana N.P.) (Madagascar)
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Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) in an ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Choreographed Gray-winged Trumpeters (Suriname)
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Eastern Mountain gorilla in Bwindi (Uganda)
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Gecko's eye (Suriname)
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Damselfly (Suriname)
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Ants [manu-Manu_1023_1963a] (Peru)
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Red-capped cardinal (Paroaria gularis) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) [manu-Manu_1024_2840] (Peru)
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Eastern Mountain gorilla in Uganda (Uganda)
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Wild female Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), which was raised by an indigenous tribe after her mother was hunted for food, periodically seeks out humans (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Jaguar skull (Guyana)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0218] (Suriname)
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Chestnut-mandibled Toucan in its nest (Costa Rica)
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Smokey jungle frog (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) (Peru)
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Black cricket (Suriname)
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Striped Civet (Fossa fossana) (Ranomafana N.P.) [Striped_Civet_0187] (Madagascar)
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Frog in the leaf litter of the rainforest (Suriname)
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Leaf toad (Bufo species?) [suriname_8917] (Suriname)
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Three-striped poison arrow frog (Epipedobates trivittatus) with tadpoles on its back [suriname_1146] (Suriname)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok seeds (Peru)
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Tarantula laying eggs at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) [tambopata-Tambopata_1028_4390] (Peru)
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Pair of Red-fan Parrots (Deroptyus accipitrinus) (0)
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Hyla tree frog in Peru [tambopata-Tambopata_1028_4615] (Peru)
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New Guinea Crocodile Skink (Tribolonotus gracilis) (0)
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Black-capped Tanager (Tangara heinei) (Peru)
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Agouti (Suriname)
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Dark brown cricket (Suriname)
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Eastern Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Bwindi (Uganda)
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Leaf toad (Bufo typhonius alatus) in Soberania National Park (Panama)
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Borneo moth [sabah_kinabatangan_0185] (Malaysia)
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White faced saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia) (0)
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Raptor in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Lizard in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Dead millipede in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Black-headed parrot (Pionites melanocephala) [suriname_1553] (Suriname)
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Golden-mantled tamarins (Saguinus tripartitus) raiding a banana garden in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Hyla tree frog (Peru)
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Light brown grasshopper with purple antennae (Suriname)
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Scarlet macaws in flight [costa-rica_1189a] (Costa Rica)
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Chameleon (Polychrus liogaster) lizard in the Peruvian Amazon (Peru)
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Neotropic cormorant (Peru)
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Calumma brevicornis chameleon (female) (Ranomafana N.P.) (Madagascar)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) [manu-Manu_1024_2836] (Peru)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok (Ceiba) seeds (Peru)
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Orange and black adult leafhopper (Suriname)
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Harlequin toad (Atelopus spumarius) [suriname_1129] (Suriname)
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Yellow spotted Side-necked turtle (Podocnemis sp.) on log (Peru)
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Hummingbirds on bird feeder (Peru)
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Squirrel monkey (Suriname)
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Leaf-mimicking praying mantis [suriname_0928] (Suriname)
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Amazon foxtail; aquatic plant; in its wild habitat (Peru)
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Ants on the forest floor (Suriname)
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Female Western lowland gorilla nursing a baby (0)
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Brown insect (Panama)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Juvenile South American common toad (Rhinella margaritifer) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Frog [suriname_1460] (Suriname)
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Yellow, green, blue, and gray lizard [suriname_2520] (Suriname)
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Adult male green iguana [costa-rica_0015] (Costa Rica)
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Gecko in lodge (Guyana)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0218a] (Suriname)
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Rain forest canopy (Peru)
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Red lored parrots in flight [costa-rica_1115] (Costa Rica)
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Unknown frog (Peru)
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Invertebrate in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Morpho butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Green tree python with turquoise spots (Morelia viridis) (0)
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Swainson's Toucan (Costa Rica)
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Eastern Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda)
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Female Western lowland gorilla nursing a baby (0)
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Black caiman (Guyana)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Bwindi (Uganda)
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Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Pardalis chameleon near Maroantsetra (Maroantsetra) (Madagascar)
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Black pill millipede (Madagascar)
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Golden-mantled tamarin (Saguinus tripartitus) raiding a banana garden in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Leaf frog [suriname_0762] (Suriname)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) in Kapok tree (Peru)
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Passion vine blossom with resident ant species (Suriname)
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Striated heron (Peru)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) [manu-Manu_1024_2848a] (Peru)
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Gecko in lodge (Guyana)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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A brilliantly colored lizard in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic. (Dominican Republic)
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Giant Monkey Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) [suriname_1345] (Suriname)
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Giant river otter eating a fish in the Amazon [manu-Manu_1022_2241a] (Peru)
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Hanging Oropendola nests in canopy tree (Peru)
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Red lored parrots in flight [costa-rica_1142] (Costa Rica)
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Three-striped poison dart frog (Epipedobates trivittatus) [suriname_1161] (Suriname)
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Eye of a black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) in an ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red millipede compared with size of hand (Madagascar)
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Cattle Egret (Suriname)
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Red lored parrots in flight [costa-rica_1139] (Costa Rica)
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Furcifer pardalis chameleon in Maroantsetra (head shot) (Maroantsetra) (Madagascar)
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Giant damselfly [suriname_2185] (Suriname)
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Giant Monkey Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) (Suriname)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Blue and black insect [suriname_2237] (Suriname)
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Yellow and blue poison arrow frog climbing a tree trunk [suriname_2579] (Suriname)
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Oropendola (species?) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) and orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi) a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Cabybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) with babies along riverside (Peru)
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Three-striped poison arrow frog (Epipedobates trivittatus) (Suriname)
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Brookesia superciliaris (Masoala NP) (Madagascar)
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Juvenile frog in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons) [costa-rica_0064] (Costa Rica)
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Orange, black, and yellow moth (Suriname)
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Male anole lizard on trunk of Kapok tree (Peru)
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Spider on web (Guyana)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Bees pollinating a pink and yellow flower [suriname_0333] (Suriname)
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Blue-headed parrots (Pionus menstruus) and Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala) feeding on clay wall (Peru)
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Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) (0)
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Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) with wings spread and standing on one leg (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Wasps clustered on a leaf [suriname_0249] (Suriname)
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Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay [tambopata-Tambopata_1027_4182a] (Peru)
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Mottled cricket (Suriname)
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This Bornean rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), Tam, is a captive individual representing hopes for ex-situ breeding of the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered). (Malaysia)
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Anole lizard showing its bright orange dewlap in a territorial display (Peru)
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Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) and orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi) a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Critically endangered Eastern Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the Bwindi jungle (Uganda)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Green pill millipede on tree trunk (Madagascar)
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Boissonneaua matthewsii hummingbird feeding (Peru)
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Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) (0)
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Guide picking up a bom jardim toad (Rhinella dapsilis) with a leaf in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying [tambopata-Tambopata_1027_4228] (Peru)
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Female silver-beaked tanager (Ramphocelus carbo) scratching away in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Smooth-sided toad "ducking" (Suriname)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Turtle in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Spider [suriname_0391a] (Suriname)
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Many-banded aracaris (Pteroglossus pluricinctus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Cobalt-winged parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) at a clay lick in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Hornbill (unidentified species) in tree at dusk in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia (Malaysia)
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Weevil in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Frog (Suriname)
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Sumatran tiger (0)
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King vulture (Suriname)
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Group of green iguanas in a tree [costa-rica_0007] (Costa Rica)
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Examining a large snake (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake [manu-Manu_1022_2099] (Peru)
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Vulture (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Frog in the Pristimantis genus camouflaged in the leaf litter in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) [manu-Manu_1022_2067] (Peru)
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Green-and-red macaw feeding on a banana (Peru)
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Metallic green, orange, and brown beetle (Suriname)
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Basilisk (Mexico)
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Yellow and black insect (Panama)
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Wasp (Suriname)
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Baby three-toed sloth hugging a stuffed panda in a Trio indigenous community [suriname_2004] (Suriname)
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Calumma nasuta chameleon (Madagascar)
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Blue, black, and orange butterfly in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Green-and-red macaw feeding on crackers after stealing them from a room (Peru)
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White-throated Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) (Peru)
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Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) [machu_picchu-Machu_1019_1129] (Peru)
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White-chinned jacamar (Galbula tombacea) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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This Bornean rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), Tam, is a captive individual representing hopes for ex-situ breeding of the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered). (Malaysia)
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Unknown frog (Peru)
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Bufo guttatus (Smooth-sided toad) [suriname_1315] (Suriname)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Anis in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis) (Peru)
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Yellow form (with brown and white markings) of the green tree python (Morelia viridis) (0)
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Count Raggi's Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) (0)
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White lined leaf frog (Phyllomedusea vaillanti) (Peru)
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Caterpillar (Madagascar)
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Graphium cyrnum, a common buterfly in Masoala/ Nosy Mangabe (Madagascar)
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Monk saki (Pithecia monachus) monkey in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Silverback Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in captivity (0)
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Young Panther chameleon (Maroantsetra) (Madagascar)
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Termites [suriname_1504] (Suriname)
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Butterfly or moth caught in a spider's web in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight [manu-Manu_1024_2688] (Peru)
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Phelsuma day gecko (Ranomafana N.P.) (Madagascar)
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Indri lemur in Andasibe (Andasibe) (Madagascar)
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Rainforest ant [suriname_8791a] (Suriname)
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Leaf toad (Bufo species?) [suriname_0817] (Suriname)
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Calumma Parsonii (Andasibe) [calumma_parsonii0010a] (Madagascar)
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Turniptail Gecko or Turnip-tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda) on tree trunk in Peru (Peru)
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Green garden lizard (Ameiva ameiva) [suriname_1536] (Suriname)
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Red howler monkey [suriname_0282] (Suriname)
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King vulture [suriname_1686] (Suriname)
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Green pill millipede rolled in ball (Madagascar)
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Spider (Suriname)
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Squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Olive green, orange, and brown beetle (Suriname)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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White-faced saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia) (0)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) [manu-Manu_1024_2804a] (Peru)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Spider on forest floor (Guyana)
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Snake (Suriname)
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Black caiman (Guyana)
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Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) [suriname_0565] (Suriname)
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Insect with black and red legs (Suriname)
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Hot pink and turquoise leafhopper nymph (insect) (Suriname)
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White-faced saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia) (0)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Silverback feeding while sitting in nettles (Uganda)
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Scarlet macaws nesting in a tree hollow [costa-rica_1252] (Costa Rica)
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Leaf-cutter ant nest [tambopata-Tambopata_1026_3348] (Peru)
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Ferocious looking insect in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay [tambopata-Tambopata_1027_4178] (Peru)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) [manu-Manu_1024_2839] (Peru)
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Pink insect with turquoise feet and eyes [suriname_0681a] (Suriname)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Red-eyed tree frog (Costa Rica)
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Insect [suriname_2477] (Suriname)
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Mantidactylus pulcher [mantidactylus_pulcher_0093] (Madagascar)
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Numerous many-banded aracaris (Pteroglossus pluricinctus) in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (look closely) (Ecuador)
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Termites (Guyana)
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Mottled moth (Suriname)
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Greater ani (Crotophaga major) (Peru)
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White-lined monkey frog (Phyllomedusa vaillantii) at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Red-eyed treefrog (Costa Rica)
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Swainson's Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) in flight [costa-rica_1109a] (Costa Rica)
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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) (Peru)
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Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay [tambopata-Tambopata_1027_4176] (Peru)
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Orange and black leafhopper (Suriname)
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Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) (0)
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Bats hanging out on ox-bow lake in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Ecuador)
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Spider on web (Guyana)
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Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) (Peru)
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Magenta insect with turquoise feet and eyes (Suriname)
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Olive green, orange, and brown beetle [suriname_0720] (Suriname)
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Canopy trees (Peru)
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Lizard with its back arched and it tail and head up (Suriname)
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Adult pardalis chameleon (Nosy Mangabe) (Madagascar)
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Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) (Uganda)
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Critically endangered Mountain gorilla in the Bwindi jungle (Uganda)
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Phelsuma Day Gecko; Nosy Mangabe (Nosy Mangabe) (Madagascar)
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