Cano Negro Monkeys
April 26, 2008 by andreasbick
One of my best experiences while doing field recording. I catched this take in Costa Rica on a canoe ride down the cano negro, a mangrove swamp with lots of water ways and channels. On this bit a howler monkey started growling on the left hand side of the water, while spider monkeys climbed through the forest canopy on the right. The beautiful call of the montezuma oropendola bird echoes over the water surface, then after some time a caiman jumps into the river. There is no editing here, this is how it sounded on the water.
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[...] are a lot of parrots, the montezuma oropendula again, that I already got acquainted with on the Cano Negro in Costa Rica, a Guatemalan turkey and - indeed - the notorious howler [...]