Videos tagged with "tropical forest"

Yumbo Resort & Spa Ecuador Wild Forest [01:50]
Trail in tropical forest in Ecuador
Tags: Ecuador, fdolievano

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

Bellavista and Mindo, Ecuador 2010 [03:45]
Our trip to the the some of the tropical forests outside of Quinto, Ecuador
Tags: Ecuador

EcuadorRainforest.m4v [10:01]
, trumpet birds, several kinds of monkeys, jaguars, ocelots, peccaries, tapirs, capybaras, agoutis, etc. The lodge served all of our meals. Dinner typically consisted of local freshwater fish, yucca or plantain, and tropical fruit, served by candlelight (there is still no electricity). The sounds of the forest really comes alive in the dark. This video includes the footage I took on the trip. ... "El Oriente" Ecuador "Amazon Rainforest" "Rio Napo" "Rio Arajuno" Tena amaaZOOnico "tropical forest" ...
Tags: El Oriente, Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Rio Napo, Rio Arajuno, Tena, amaaZOOnico, tropical forest