As threatened/promised, here are some more Mashpi birds and mammals and amphibians and insects.
The taira, a most magnificent member of theMustelidae family. Other famous mustalids include weasels, badgers and wolverines. I myself am at least 10 percent wolverine. The emerald glass frog. My humans spent an hour blundering around in a river, in the dark, looking for this little fellow, with something like a thousand spiders scuttling over every surface to keep them company. Needless to say, they didn’t find the frog themselves, and had to rely on less incompetent humans. The red squirrel, an expat from North America. These chaps have retained their instinct for burying food for the winter, which of course never arrives up here. So, squirrels are the most excellent dispersers of seeds in the forest. The mighty praying mantis. A larger cousin of this chap catches hummingbirds in its forelegs, and eats their heads… and only their heads. So, there are little headless hummingbird corpses in the jungle. Not disturbing at all.On the observation tower at the start of the Skybike cable system, which my female human refused to countenance. I found the pedalling somewhat challenging. The gondola ride, AKA the Dragonfly. Suspended over a series of gorges. Amazing/terrifying, depending on your attitude towards heights. My very brave female human single-handedly held our gondola aloft via sheer willpower and a white-knuckled grip throughout the entire 60 minute journey.We trekked along this river in gumboots. One of us managed to completely fill her gumboots with water. Another one of us managed to drop his iPhone in the water, despite being told not to. My male human, in his customary pose. Because there’s always room for another photo of a choco toucan. A banana, seen here with a flame-faced tanager.
We are just about at the end of our Mashpi adventure. Next stop: the Galápagos Islands!
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