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Hey, I would like to share some pictures of two trips to the Chaco and Formosa provinces in north Argentina.
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow.
A. chacoana.
A. chacoana habitat: Chaco subtropical forest with a dry season (winter). This habitat was the second largest forest of the american continent. The first one is the Amazonas forest. The Chaco forest is almost extinct these days.
E. campestratus burrow.
E. campestratus.
E. campestratus.
E. campestratus grassland habitat (not natural, but almost.)
A. chacoana adult female freshly molted.
My poor oldie Ford!
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow.
Cool frog.
Frog quest at night, we found a lot, the noise was incredible!
A. chacoana juve female about to molt.
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow, sealed with silk as she was eating a mouse!
Do you see the mouse's tale??? I couldn't believe my eyes...
Take a look at the shed skin and the burrow entrance.
Blaberus spp. The common roach in these lands.
Look at this working guy!
soo freshly molted chacoana.
another frog.
eating lunch..-
cool toad.
look these colors...
Death Moth!!!
Lagarto Obero.
Grassland E. campestratus habitat.
E. campestratus juv eating a cricket.
Tannin factory, destroying the forest for more than 100 years and still running. They chop the Quebracho, the biggest and oldest tree of the forest to produce this tannin. Some of these trees are 300 years old or more. Oh..we humans what the H%&/$! are we doing...!!!
cigarra.
Pepsi wasp ''san jorge'' which parasites A. chacoana. Big scary things...
E. campestratus at night, waiting for prey outside the retreat.
Giant toad Buffo paragnemis.
communal spiders.
Mantis.
what a frog....
hundreds of them!
cabachui wasps, really dangerous to be arounds these little ones...
''ataja caminos'' nocturnal bird
Bermejo river. limit between Chaco and Formosa province.
''Bañado La Estrella'' Formosa. The second largest swamp of south america.
Look at the size!!
Amazonic parrot. It's practically extinct in the wild and I saw 3 of them. They have their nests in the tall Quebrachos, which are really few out there...
Well, I made the trip in summer!!! Many people called me crazy, but it was one of the best things I could ever done for a holiday. I sweat a little who cares!
What a sunset.
We lived for a couple of days with the natives. The kids were playing with a a little croc (yacaré). Then they realised into the wild again.
A. chacoana entrance.
Where is she??
There she is...carrying a sac two.
A. chacoana habitat.
Pampa del Indio Park. This Quebracho Colorado (red) is 500 years old. the growth average rate is 80cm per 100 years. People tear it down in 30 minutes with a chain saw.
Quebracho Blanco (white) is the other one, which is bigger and more rare than the red one.
Weird roach, was the only one we saw.
Cigarra.
The lost paradise...
I hope you like the pics. It's a sample of the great diversity of the Chaco forest or Bosque Chaqueño as we call it over here. It's flora and fauna is in great danger and many species are gone extinct already. Once it was an gigantic paradise, now is almost gone and nobody seems to care...
Pato.
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow.
A. chacoana.
A. chacoana habitat: Chaco subtropical forest with a dry season (winter). This habitat was the second largest forest of the american continent. The first one is the Amazonas forest. The Chaco forest is almost extinct these days.
E. campestratus burrow.
E. campestratus.
E. campestratus.
E. campestratus grassland habitat (not natural, but almost.)
A. chacoana adult female freshly molted.
My poor oldie Ford!
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow.
Cool frog.
Frog quest at night, we found a lot, the noise was incredible!
A. chacoana juve female about to molt.
A. chacoana oportunistic burrow, sealed with silk as she was eating a mouse!
Do you see the mouse's tale??? I couldn't believe my eyes...
Take a look at the shed skin and the burrow entrance.
Blaberus spp. The common roach in these lands.
Look at this working guy!
soo freshly molted chacoana.
another frog.
eating lunch..-
cool toad.
look these colors...
Death Moth!!!
Lagarto Obero.
Grassland E. campestratus habitat.
E. campestratus juv eating a cricket.
Tannin factory, destroying the forest for more than 100 years and still running. They chop the Quebracho, the biggest and oldest tree of the forest to produce this tannin. Some of these trees are 300 years old or more. Oh..we humans what the H%&/$! are we doing...!!!
cigarra.
Pepsi wasp ''san jorge'' which parasites A. chacoana. Big scary things...
E. campestratus at night, waiting for prey outside the retreat.
Giant toad Buffo paragnemis.
communal spiders.
Mantis.
what a frog....
hundreds of them!
cabachui wasps, really dangerous to be arounds these little ones...
''ataja caminos'' nocturnal bird
Bermejo river. limit between Chaco and Formosa province.
''Bañado La Estrella'' Formosa. The second largest swamp of south america.
Look at the size!!
Amazonic parrot. It's practically extinct in the wild and I saw 3 of them. They have their nests in the tall Quebrachos, which are really few out there...
Well, I made the trip in summer!!! Many people called me crazy, but it was one of the best things I could ever done for a holiday. I sweat a little who cares!
What a sunset.
We lived for a couple of days with the natives. The kids were playing with a a little croc (yacaré). Then they realised into the wild again.
A. chacoana entrance.
Where is she??
There she is...carrying a sac two.
A. chacoana habitat.
Pampa del Indio Park. This Quebracho Colorado (red) is 500 years old. the growth average rate is 80cm per 100 years. People tear it down in 30 minutes with a chain saw.
Quebracho Blanco (white) is the other one, which is bigger and more rare than the red one.
Weird roach, was the only one we saw.
Cigarra.
The lost paradise...
I hope you like the pics. It's a sample of the great diversity of the Chaco forest or Bosque Chaqueño as we call it over here. It's flora and fauna is in great danger and many species are gone extinct already. Once it was an gigantic paradise, now is almost gone and nobody seems to care...
Pato.
