Videos tagged with "leaves"

Miro's Amazon Adventure Short [09:58]
Watch Miro as he prepares and then leaves from Coca, Ecuador to Manaus, Brazil - 2000km in his home-made pedal-powered canoe - Martinka. Half-crazy but full of heart, soul and adventure, he is achieving his dream.
Tags: Miro, Amazon, Coca Ecuador, Manaus Brazil

Equator line in Ecuador (leaves circling the drain) [02:12]
Coriolis effect: water circle changes its rotation north and south of the equator line. It flows right down in the drain when on the equator
Tags: Equator, Coriolis, Ecuador

Wild Woolly Monkey in the Yasuni [00:20]
Woolly monkeys are found throughout the northern countries of South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru). They usually reside in high elevation cloud forests, seasonally flooded rainforests and forests which situated within Colombia's eastern plains region, although their ideal habitat resides in humid and mature tropical forests. The species lives in social groups ranging from 10 to 45 individuals. Foraging groups, however, tend to consist of 2 to 6 individuals which branch out from the main group, and this is probably intended to reduce food competition among individuals. Woolly monkeys have a diet which consists of fruit with an addition of leaves, seeds, flowers and invertebrates. Each group is governed and led by an Alpha male, and the social organization within a larger group is organized by age, sex, and the reproductive status of females. Reproduction in these groups is characterized by promiscuity, in other words one male (either the alpha or subordinate) will mate with more than one female, just as females will mate with more than one male. Shortly after the females reach maturity they leave their natal (birth) groups to avoid any occurrence of inbreeding, while males tend to remain in their natal groups. Play sessions among individuals not only serves as a bonding process to rekindle relationships among individuals but is also a way the species establish a hierarchy or social pecking order as well as passive food sharing which is ...
Tags: Wild, Woolly Monkey, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Yasuni, National, Park, Huaorani People, Shiripuno, Lodge, Natural History, Amazon Ecuador, Photography Tours, Birding Tours, Birds

Quilotoa (12, 841 ft.) The Descent and Ascent of a Volcanic Crater [02:31]
Quilotoa is an extinct volcano that last erupted in 1797. The Volcano measures 3914 m. (12, 841 ft.) It is located in the western Andes in Ecuador. In Quichua, Quilotoa means tooth of a princess. Today, the crater is filled with blue and greenish water and one may take a boat ride on the crater's lake. The crater is 2 miles wide and it would take 5 hours to hike the circumference all the way around. Quilotoa is a tourist site that is growing in popularity. However, only expect basic accommodations and facilities. Make sure you bring a walking stick, plenty of drinking water, and extra money in case you get a case of altitude sickness and need to hire a mule to make it back to the top. The quality of the trail leaves much left to be desired. Since Quilotoa is 12, 841 ft. above sea-level it is recommended that nobody with heart or weight problems attempt the climb.
Tags: Quilotoa, ecuador, mountain, hiking, outdoors, tourism, nature, volcanic, crater, del, volcan

Ecuador 2 [09:20]
Leaving home, team building & barbeque
Tags: 03, Alice, leaves, for, Ecuador