"just passing through ... hey, what's this?"
A friend who has ties to Honduras told me it was okay to post and share this compilation video from trail cams set up in the rainforests there to take a wildlife census. The organization paying for it is
Bosques del Mundo
--apparently until now there's been no study, to speak of, of wildlife in Honduras.
The video is delightful, especially the animals that investigate the camera (especially the ocelot near the end), and the baby peccary that turns to face down someone coming up behind him. Enjoy!
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The video is delightful, especially the animals that investigate the camera (especially the ocelot near the end), and the baby peccary that turns to face down someone coming up behind him. Enjoy!
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CarolineFromConcord
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Dec 30, 2022 08:19AM
Imagine having so many exotic, free-roaming animals in your world! If I didn't know anything about what life is like for humans in Honduras, I'd say, Why would anyone leave?
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For so many countries in the world, our sense of them is very one note: we only hear about them for one reason (and for lots of developing countries, it's a bad reason)--or maybe two. (If it's Bangladesh, you have a choice of flooding or sweatshops. If it's Honduras it's either gangs or corruption. If it's Haiti, it's either civil unrest or natural disasters.) I exaggerate: there *are* other stories, but those one-note narratives dominate. ... It's not that the burgeoning wildlife in Honduras makes it okay that there are gangs and corruption, but it makes you pause and remember that it's not ONLY gangs and corruption. And of course that video is a compilation :-) No one spot gets all those animals with that sort of frequency. But seeing them all is wonderful, I agree!
