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Red Titi Monkey93 viewsHandsome monkey eating fruits of a Cecropia tree.
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Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant90 viewsThis comical-looking fellow was captured in ongoing biodiversity surveys at the Lalo Loor Dry Forest reserve.
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Common Squirrel Monkey88 viewsTraveling in troops of 40 or more through the middle levels of the rainforest, these monkeys are amazingly quick and agile.
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Nesting Andean Cock-of-the-Rock86 viewsFemale nesting on a cliffside perch, over a small stream at the El Pahuma reserve
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White-bellied Spider Monkey86 viewsAmong the largest monkeys in the Amazon rainforest, they are the only group that truly "brachiates" -- swinging hand over hand through the canopy. Important seed dispersers, they also are among the first species to disappear from forests that are hunted or otherwise disturbed.
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Red Howler Monkey84 viewsThese monkeys routinely growl, bark and howl -- giving them their common name -- at dawn and dusk, when other troops are near, and to signal (complain about?) an incoming rain shower.
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Dipsas gracilis82 viewsThis snail eating snake, photographed at night at the Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve, uses its flexibly and dislocating lower jaw to inch around the inside of a curled snail shell until it's lower teeth snag on the snail and pull it out to be eaten.
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Golden-mantle Tamarin82 viewsSmall monkeys of the Amazon rainforest, inhabiting a small range south of the Napo River. They are called "bebe leche" (milk drinkers) by locals, for the white muzzle on a black face.
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Saki Monkey82 viewsSaki photographed from the canopy of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Tarantula eats a frog82 viewsA medium-sized tarantula killing and consuming a rainforest frog, photographed by Ceiba students on a night walk in the Amazon.
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Dracula orchid81 viewsThis attractive Dracula orchid -- named for the "little dragon" that it's center resembles; otherwise known locally as "monkey face" (cara de mono) -- blooms every year in the El Pahuma botanical garden.
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Brachtia andina orchid78 viewsCloud forest orchid with small attractive flowers
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