Amazon Jungle Hike and The Chunky Monkeys La Perla Day 9 Peru
Tuesday, December 18 Afternoon and Evening
Jungle Hike
Chunky Monkeys
Birthday Cake for Linda
After a nice siesta we're back on the skiff; this time naturalist Neal who joins the Jaguars and Roger (our fearless boat captain). We meet our local guide, Robert who will hike ahead of us looking for critters and things of interest.
Robert's first find is a dead leaf toad.
Next he wow's us with a red back poison frog (Ranitomeya reticulata), the second most poisonous frog in the genus.
Next he calls us over-he's found a three-toed sloth high in a tree.
And to top off our afternoon he finds an anaconda (Eunectes, which means good swimmer) waiting to find it's dinner: fish, bird or small mammals. Anacondas predators are caimans, jaguars and humans. They aren't poisonous, they are constrictors.
Only animal left on our bucket list is a jaguar in the wild (we saw one in captivity in the Belize zoo but not in the wild) I'm pretty sure we won't be seeing one this trip either. But you never know...
Back on the boat we freshen up then head for the bar and another Chunky Monkey performance.