These visitors to the Amazon provide scale for this large buttress root system. Trees are usually deep rooted to extract more nutrients, but buttress roots support are shallowly rooted trees. They are common in rain forests because most of the nutrients are inside the trees and plants of the forest leaving the soil nutrient poor.
Black vultures are scavengers and feed primarily on carrion, but they will also occasionally eat live prey. These birds...
Children and their typical home in a small settlement in the Amazon. Houses are mostly made of wood given...
Zooming in on a Woolly Monkey spotted in the Colombian Amazon. Also known as woolly spider monkeys, they are...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
View of Puerto Nariño in the Amazon region of Colombia. Settlements like this have no road access. Instead, access is...
Puerto Nariño is the second biggest town in the Amazonas department of Colombia. It is a lot smaller than...
View of the main street in Puerto Nariño. This settlement lies in the Amazon region of Colombia on the...
Allamanda is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the family Apocynaceae, which is native to tropical America....
