Shelter Bay Marina is located on the edge of the Jungle used earlier by the US to train their elite soldiers for Jungle fighting. The Marina has cleared some of the Jungle to give space for the hard standing, where New Dawn was.
Many mornings at sunrise I could hear the Monkeys screaming, signaling that something was going on around them. Parrots can "talk" very loud and Eagles were hoovering above us all day. The Vultures were generally on the ground and were disgusting to watch when they were eating what-ever-it-was. Last trip back from the Supermarket in Colon, I watched a rather big Crocodile sitting at the river bank with its mouth wide open and taking a sun bath.
Yesterday, I went with a Scotch friend, Kerry, for a two hour hike into the Jungle and we heard the Parrots and many Monkeys close to us. As we passed them they were giving their screaming and we concluded that it was the "Monkey News Channel" and warning the other that we were around. It sounded like there were several groups and as they were usually high up in the trees but probably within 15 meters of us, it was impossible for me to get any good photos of them.
If you look well at the lower half left side of this photo you might see a brown Howling Monkey and its fingers of the left hand sticking up.
This photo and the following one, you might see another Monkey sitting slightly to the left of the middle upper side. The below photo he is still there at slightly to the left of the middle of the photo.
Not easy to get a good photo of this one. If you look well at the center of the photo you might see a, in Danish, "Muresluger", but I have not found the English name. It is that animal with a long nose that stick it into Ant hides and eat the Ants. Competition to leave a comment to the one that find the English name.
Here are two Parrots. They make noisy cries and don't fly very elegantly.
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