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on Derek and Trudy (Guyana), 12/Dec/2008 12:48, 34 days ago
Some three Sundays ago this little fellow appeared at the bottom of the 'garden' (really a swamp)of our house, the tail end of a creek. The locals were not surprised because they appear and disappear regularly. The caiman was not particularly large , poodled about for a bit and then sauntered off into the middle of the swamp. The animals in the rain forest keep well hidden and you have to know where to look and for us the real delight of where we live is the huge variety of birds. I just bought a two volume book on The Birds of Northern South America and there are over 2,300 species/sub species listed. We have seen and noted about 40 but the more you observe you realise that what you thought was the same species is in fact different. Next February is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and what better place to celebrate this important event than in a country like Guyana. That said many of my friends here do not believe in evolution but me and Ian Scott ( another big fan of darwin) are working on that.