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A visit to the butterfly farm

Time to go home, gentlemen.	Waiting in the lobby of the Hostel Pascana. Today we go to the butterfly farm.	View of the courtyard	"Walk in any direction until your hat floats"
Down to the docks	Our boat to the butterfly farm
	Hmmmm, why can't we take one of these down to Madre Selva?	Amazon version of the Airstream trailer	New vessels at the barge-works
Up the beautiful black-water river, the Rio Nanay.
	Bats perched over the water.	I haven't been able to key these out yet.	Up a little channel....
...oops. Wrong one.	OK, I think we're on the right track now.	Everybody remember where we sank our dugout.
	It upsets the primates.		Uakari monkey
Howler Monkey high up	This was an amazing aural display....
Into the butterfly house	Owl Butterfly (Caligo teucer)		One of the Crackers (Hamadryas sp.)
		Acontius Firewing (Catonephele acontius) Nymphalidae, Biblidinae. The fiery orange band surrounded by dark just confuzzled my camera sensor. This thing just GLOWED.
Flutterbyes in progress.		I believe these were Caligo caterpillars.
		Amazon Cracker (Hamadryas chloe).
Marmoset there'd be days like this	there'd be days like this Marmoset	Marmoset	Well, Pigmy Marmoset actually.
	This was the Capuchin cage. I totally believe it.	I want this on a t-shirt.	Capuchin monkey.
Interesting floret	I jumped the fence into the Yellowfoot pen to take these pictures.
These guys are totally cool.
			Our host and a Coati.
Anteater gets his lunch.	the long boardwalk out.		Back down the Nanay. A party spot.
Gunboats on the river. Good title for a jungle thriller. Too bad the San Pablo has already been taken.		Back to the dock.	Now that's a hoopty!

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