Mar 22, 2020
Fabulosas Franklin's
Aves. Miles de ellas. Una amplia cinta de color gris pálido a lo largo de toda la playa. Hacía años que no veía tantas. Había perdido la...
Mar 21, 2020
Franklin's Forever
Birds. Thousands of them. A broad ribbon of pale grey along the entire beach. It was years since I'd seen so many. I had lost hope it was...
Jan 25, 2019
A Giant Announcement!
My new book, The Giant Otter: Giants of the Amazon, is available for preorder! I have been involved with giant otters, in one way or...
Nov 14, 2018
Boy or Girl?
Day 4, 9 am, Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru. The water boils and churns as nine endangered giant otters vigorously pursue a school...
Sep 7, 2018
My Animal Self
An opinion piece in The New York Times caught my eye recently. In The Beast in Me, Maxim Loskutoff describes an encounter with a female...
Nov 24, 2017
Black Beast
Imagine this. It’s night and you’re alone in the rainforest. You’re walking along a narrow trail, a machete in one hand, a torch in the...
Nov 7, 2017
The Hapless Hoatzin
I have a confession to make. It’s hard for me, a lover of all creatures wild, to admit this, but… I have rather ambivalent feelings when...
Oct 12, 2017
Flutter By
I found these butterflies and moths recently over a period of three days at a tourism lodge in the Tambopata National Reserve, southeastern