Before I read David Grann’s The Lost City of Z, I would have told you that the piranha was scariest fish in the Amazon. But Grann describes an even more fearsome fish–the candiru. It’s one of the few creatures in the world that can survive on a diet of blood. It feeds itself by burrowing [...]
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The Hidden Complexity of the Rain Forest
When I imagined what walking through a rain forest in Costa Rica would be like, I pictured a lush green area that was teeming with plants, birds and animals. So when I hiked through the Monteverde Cloud Forest, all of the plants and orchids I saw were pretty much just as I pictured them. But [...]
