Image Gallery - Image gallery: rainforest wildlife

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Bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) Bullet ants are known for their severe sting. Their stings are said to be the most painful and debilitating known for any insect Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Moss-like caterpillar covered with poisonous spines	Woolly monkey	Young macaque eating a fruit (Indonesia)
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Giant cave-dwelling toad (Malaysia)	Single red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) on branch preparing to feed on clay wall Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Tortoise - unknown
Oriental Pied Hornbill (Antbracocerus albirostris)	Multi-colored grasshopper	Ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus)	Egret (unidentified) flying over the Kinabantagan River in Sabah Malaysia
Pink and green grasshopper at the petite tsingy	Jaguar (Panthera onca)	Katydid (Costa Rica)	Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)
Large red male adult Borneo Orangutan on feeding platform at Pondok Tanggui (Indonesia)	Proboscis monkey in leafy tree (Indonesia)	Purple heron (Ardea purpurea) in flight over forest in Gabon (Gabon)	Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) (Suriname)
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Macaws; parrots; and other birds feed on clay for mineral and salt supplementation and to counter dietary toxins they ingest from seeds. The clay lick also serves as a social setting for the birds Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Brown frog on leaf in Bali (Indonesia)	Red millipede on log	Unknown small frog (Epipedobates hahneli ?) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)
Green preying mantis (Indonesia)	Forest elephant on the open savanna in Gabon (Gabon)	Heliconius caterpillar (pan01-0852)	Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay Birds and other animals feed on clay to neutralize dietary toxins which are ingested during the comsuption of young seeds. Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Large spider in Costa Rica (Costa Rica)	Brown insect (pan01-0712)	Yellow and blue poison arrow frog climbing toward the canopy (Suriname)	Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Hot pink and turquoise insect (Suriname)	Leaf frog (Suriname)	Panamanian red frog (pan01-0826)	Cave Dwelling Racer (Elaphe taeniura ridleyi) swallowing a bat (Malaysia)
Leaf-mimicking praying mantis (Suriname)	Blue and black butterfly in Borneo; wings closed (Indonesia)	Black butterfly with white markings in Java (Indonesia)	Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus) grooming in a tree (Indonesia)
Cane toad (Bufo marinus) next to human hand for scale Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Calumma parsoni chameleon near Perinet (Andasibe)	Unknown insect (Gabon)	Arowana (Brazil)
Barking Deer; Cambodia	Wild Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Giant black bee feeding on morning glory flower nectar (Indonesia)	Orange-backed Woodpecker (Reinwardtipicus validus) (Malaysia)
Bwindi gorilla hanging from a tree (Uganda)	Insect nest emerging from rainforest tree (Indonesia)	Termites (Suriname)	Butterfly; Honduras
Leaf-cutter ant nest Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Harlequin toad (Atelopus spumarius) (Suriname)	Male silverback gorilla reclining (Gabon)	Blue-headed parrots and Yellow-crowned parrots Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Frog; Thailand	Green anaconda underwater	Leaf toad (Bufo margaritifer) (Suriname)	Acrobatic woolly monkey
Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) along the Tembeling River (Malaysia)	Hornbill (unidentified species) in tree at dusk in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia	Bearded pigs (Sus barbatus) feeding on rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) (Indonesia)