Explorer's guide to the rainforest mammals of Panama

摘要

Rainforest wildlife can be frustratingly elusive -- but not in Panama. Howler monkeys serenaded James Fair in the showenand walking trails led to agoutis, kinkajous and a particularly maternal sloth. The noted biologist Dr Thomas Lovejoy remarks in the foreword to the book Tropical Nature that rainforests aren't, on first appearances, the reservoirs of diverse and colourful life that they are sometimes made out to be. His first impression on going into a rainforest just outside Belem, in Brazil, wasthat it is very green, quiet and still. "Little moved except ants," he wrote.