Our final wildlife-spotting boat trip was early this morning, on our last day in the Cuyabeno reserve. We saw monkeys and all sorts of birds including this tiger heron (pic), which looked much perkier than we did at six in the morning...
...but I was most intrigued by the Social Spiders. They live in colonies of a couple of hundred, and spin a communal web (pic) that engulfs several trees like a giant mosquito net. No doubt this socialist approach to division of labour and ownership of resources means they are much better off than their neo-liberal counterparts who constantly battle inequality and unfairness.
Then, sadly, it was time to go home, with the day-long journey by boat and bus back to Quito, from where I'll be making my way by air to Peru. I hope.
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