Videos tagged with "tropics"

Cable Car Ride in the Jungle Canopy [01:35]
Free video about a cable car ride in the canopy of the cloudy rain forest close to the jungles of Ecuador. This video was created by epSos.de near Mindo of Ecuador. Mindo is a rural parish in Ecuador, located in the Los Bancos canton in the province of Pichincha. The parish is known for its growing eco tourism industry based in the Mindo-Nambillo Protected Forest. The cable car ride was $5. So, a minute in the air was equal to $5. A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate. The world's longest operable cable way is the Forsby-Köping limestone cable way in Sweden. It is 42 km long. Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall. Around 40% to 75% of all biotic species are indigenous to the rain forests. Tropical rain forests are rainforests in the tropics in the equatorial zone. A Jungle is an area of land in the tropics overgrown with dense vegetation. In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by plant crowns. For forests, canopy also refers to the upper layer or habitat zone. The canopy of a rainforest is typically about 10m thick, and intercepts around 95% of sunlight. Shade trees normally have a dense canopy that blocks light from lower growing plants. The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. This jungle is also a cloud forest. A cloud forest is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen, moist forest ...
Tags: ride, cable car, canopy, jungle, flying, rainforest, mindo, Ecuador, forest, could forest, tropics, ecuator, green, hight

Common Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) in the Yasuni [00:34]
Common woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha) occur in the Neotropics of northern South America, including the upper Magdalean River valley in Colombia, throughout much of the upper Amazon basin of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil west of the Rio Negro, and in the foothills and eastern slopes of the Andes. They occur as high as 3000 meters above sea level in the Andes (Eisenberg 1989; Emmons & Feer 1990; Moynihan 1976). Common woolly monkeys are hardly ever found on the forest floor. Generally, they remain at a height of about 38 ft (12 m) but will come down as low as 22 ft (7m). Lagothrix lagotricha live in gallery, palm, flooded and nonflooded primary, and cloud forests. These animals prefer mature, continuous, undisturbed humid forests and are not found to inhabit secondary forest. (Kinzey, 1997; Nowak, 1999; Welker and Schafer-Witt, 1989) Physical Description Mass 3 to 10 kg (6.6 to 22 lbs) Length 558 to 686 mm (21.97 to 27.01 in) Common wooly monkeys are large robust animals and are one of the largest New World primates by weight. Males are generally heavier than females, and male canine teeth are significantly larger than those of females. When in captivity these animals can be much heavier in weight than 10 kg but usually individuals fall within the range of 3 to 10 kg. Head and body length ranges from 558 to 686 mm and the prehensile tail is between 600 to 720 mm. The hair is dense, short, thick, and predominantly composed of underfur. In older individuals ...
Tags: Common, Woolly, Monkey, Ecuador, Yasuni, National, Park, Biosphere, Reserve, Nature, Wild, Wilderness, Wildlife, Shiripuno, Lodge, River, Huaorani, mammal

Traveling to Ecuador? 2 of 2 [05:53]
Travel to Ecuador, vacation, Ecuador, Quito, Trip, Otovalo, Warnings before traveling to Latin America, precautions, vaccines, tropics, rainy season, dry season,
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Ayampe, Manabí Province, Ecuador: January 20, 2010 [03:26]
Vacationing in Ayampe, Manabí Province, Ecuador and enjoying the warm waters of the Pacific ocean in the middle of January. What a fantastic time!
Tags: Ayampe, Manabi, Ecuador, Surf, Surfing, Beach, Tropical, Tropics