Exploration of the rain forest canopy using airships and similar aerial platforms

The following photographs were made by G. Dorrington during the previous projects mentioned on page 4 

They represent an extremely small sample of the flora and fauna of rain forest canopies.  

Golden frog (Colostethus/Anomaloglossus beebei) in a giant bromeliad, Guyana, 2004 
Note: this image now also appears on a website solely concerned with dart frogs: see: http://www.dendrobatenwelt.de/indexe.htm

 

Young orang utan (Danum Valley, Sabah), 1995

  Orang utan nest, photo taken from D-4 airship, Danum Valley, 1995

   

Black and Yellow Broadbill (Danum Valley, Sabah), 1995

 

Epiphytes growing on a branch at a height of about 30 metres, Danum Valley, 1998

 

Canopy in French Guiana, 2005

 

Squirrel Monkey (Samiri scureus), French Guiana, 2005

 

Praying Mantis, French Guyana, 2005                       

 

The following photographs were made by G. Dorrington during a 3 day recce to Tiputini in 2006, see: http://tiputini.usfq.edu.ec/

Beetle (Canthon smaragdulus)

 

Tiger beetle

 

Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha)

 

Canopy with morning mist and bromeliads

 

Cruzcapsi, (Brownia, Fabaceae)

 

Balsa tree flower and fruit

 

White Throated Toucan, (Ramphastos tucanus)

 

Short-billed Honeycreeper, (Cyanherpes lucidus)

 

Stinkhorn fungus (Staheliomyces cinctus)

 

View of Canopy

 



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