Gallery

Working out at km 67 offers ample opportunity for encounters with wildlife – peccaries, turtles, ‘possums, lizards and even a sloth. Below are photos of some of our new-found friends and visitors.
 
 

The Wofsy group’s new graduate student working in Brazil, Harry.
 


The Sloth -- Theodore Roethke


 
In moving-slow he has no Peer. 
You ask him something in his Ear, 
He thinks about it for a Year; 
 		 A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug.
But should you call his manner Smug, 
He'll sigh and give his Branch a Hug; 
 
And, then, before he says a Word 
There, upside down (unlike a Bird), 
He will assume that you have Heard- 		 Then off again to sleep he goes, 
Still swaying gently by his Toes, 
And you just know he knows he knows. 

 
 
 

Some plants are friendlier than others. This palm (probably Astrocaryum spp.) is downright hostile

  

Because of their valuable fruits, Brazil nut trees (Berthoellia excelsa) are left even when other trees are cleared from lands nearby. This one sits across the Santarém-Cuiabá highway from the TNF.

 
 
 

This turtle is a friendly welcome to the research site in Brazil. 		  
This lizard strains his neck to check out the new dendrometers.

 
 
 

 

  

 

 
 
 

Note pinchers on the far right.		  

 


 


Forest and Atmospheric Measurements
Atmospheric Sciences
Harvard University

Updated 1 March 2001