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.
Looking at a tributary that feeds into the Amazon River in Colombia. These waterways offer greater opportunity for viewing...
Man in the Amazonas region of Colombia with an anaconda wrapped around his arm.
Looking very much like a huge indoor plant, this fine specimen was spotted growing from the bank of the...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
View of the plumage on the back of a Scarlet Macaw. Photo taken in the Amazon rainforest inside Colombia...
The main street in a small Amazonian settlement in southern Colombia. This area of the Amazon is called ‘The...
A small settlement on the banks of the Amazon River in the Amazonas region of Colombia. In view is...
