The first keynote speaker of todays #ECTE2025 is our colleague Gonzalo Rivas, director of the #Tiputini Biodiversity Station talking about how drones can help research, conservation and more in areas like #Galapagos & #Yasuni. And he mentioned our #AMAPOLLEN project!!

Strangler fig at #Tiputini, with the original tree long gone. You can step inside and look up.

There is a canopy tower at #Tiputini, spent 4 hours of amazing bird watching there. Which are strong words from a mammal person

At #Tiputini there are mineral licks where birds and mammals come in to eat earth. First in the morning come the parrots and parakeets

This reminds me, at #Tiputini we saw a puffbird. When I heard the name I started laughing.
I can't guarantee species, but you get the idea

Here's a paper on the biodiversity caught on camera using the the mineral licks at #Tiputini http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/3/2/217/htm
@enunapalabra

Tapirs have the #BestSnout
#Tiputini http://www.amazoniasalvaje.com/galeria-de-videos

I spy monkey junk.
Not that I am looking or anything.
#Junkoff
#Tiputini
http://www.amazoniasalvaje.com/galeria-de-videos

Such a badass jaguar. Such. A Badass
#Tiputini
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Pig faces!
#Tiputini http://www.amazoniasalvaje.com/galeria-de-videos

Ah, just found the compilation of camera trap videos from #Tiputini that
@enunapalabra showed me. http://www.amazoniasalvaje.com/galeria-de-videos

Just a sampling of the camera trap pics from #Tiputini by Diego Mosquera
http://www.amazoniasalvaje.com/galeria-fototrampeo

To come across such an open bare space in the forest at #Tiputini was unexpected

There are symbioses everywhere at #Tiputini. In "The Devil's Garden", ants prevent any plants but their host from growing in the area.

Monkey's comb. Used by monkeys after a rain #tiputini

Rain forest footwear at #tiputini

Early morning ride upriver to leave #Tiputini. Most people were sleeping including 2 guys in the dark hold at the front.

Traveling down the #Tiputini River to get to the Biodiversity Station

Butterflies enjoying my sweaty waistband #tiputini

Lesson learned at the #Tiputini dinner table: They recognize individual female woolly monkeys by the size/shape/color of their clitorises

The primatologists at #tiputini often rely dung beetles to help them find the scattered bits of woolly monkey poop.

We also compared cheetah vs primate scat collecting tips. Monkey scat literally rains down on you. And if 2 poop at once...
#Tiputini

Things I learned at the #Tiputini breakfast table : They measure woolly monkey testicle size with lasers

There were a number of primatologists at #Tiputini, and it made my heart happy to talk about poop and testicles again.

Because my camera sucked I tried to take pics through the binoculars. With varying success. Here's a woolly monkey bottom.
#Tiputini

I took this picture for @derekhennen. And because it was huge.
#Tiputini

I present the dinosaur bird with claws on its elbows and a yellow mohawk. i.e the Hoatzin
#Tiputini

Eastern Ecuador: Amazonian forest Leaving the frontier town of Coca, our journey took us several hours by motorized canoe and truck, following roads built by the oil companies and rivers built by the prodigious rains. After a day&#…

Biodiversity, oil extraction, and a few little stings in eastern Ecuador. Visiting #Tiputini in the Amazon forest.

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