Biologist. Conservationist.
Amateur everything.
This life is an honor and a privilege.
Together with The University of Miami, I acknowledge the ancestral and traditional territories of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Council Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. They are the original owners and custodians of the land we stand and learn on.
As a member of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station community, I acknowledge my great privilege to live, learn, and work on the soil and in the waters of the ancestral and current territories of the Kichwa and Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.
A land acknowledgment is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg. It means nothing without action. To learn about this topic and explore Indigenous Territory maps visit Native-Land.ca.
Amazon Mosaic. Taken on my Iphone from a Cessna over the edge of Kayapó territory, Pará, Brazil. 2019.
One of my earliest primate photos. Alouatta belzebul. 2017. Kayapó Indigenous Territory, Pará, Brazil.
Ateles belzebuth belzebuth eating a palm fruit (Family: Araceae, Oenocarpus sp.). Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022. 2022.
A squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) cleaning their hands on a leaf (Possibly a Miconia in the Family: Melastomataceae, if my memory serves). Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
A squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) with a seed in their mouth (possibly from the same plant). Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
A shy white-fronted capuchin monkey (Cebus albifrons) in amongst a group of foraging squirrel monkeys (Saimiri scuireus) inspects the boat of giant primates on the river. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
Ateles belzebuth belzebuth eating a palm fruit (Family: Araceae, Oenocarpus sp.). 2022.
Male red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) on their way to a Cecropia tree on the Northern bank of the Tiputini River. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
A bend in the river gives a clear view of the trees. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
A tayra (Eira barbara) watching me. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.
A large woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha poeppigii) looking small on an impressive branch. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. 2022.