Into Perú
Team Brain Scoop is about to helicopter into a biologically unknown region of the Peruvian jungle with a team of conservationists to study and document the area's biodiversity for the first...
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(Emily) - In three days' time, Team Brain Scoop is setting out for the Peruvian Amazon. We're in search of genus and species known and unknown: reptiles and amphibians, plants, birds, mammals, fishes, and insects. Our expedition is for three weeks in the jungle. Cameraman and frogman Tom McNamara and I will go beyond the dead ends of roads, deep into the neotropical forest where few people have journeyed. We'll be well out of range of cellphones, subjected to the harsh realities of weather, insects, and disease, and there's definitely going to be no Twitter. The voyage to our camp in Peru will take four days, three airplanes, a half-day boat ride, and a trip by helicopter—dropping into a little-charted region between the rivers Tapiche an...
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(Emily) - In three days' time, Team Brain Scoop is setting out for the Peruvian Amazon. We're in search of genus and species known and unknown: reptiles and amphibians, plants, birds, mammals, fishes, and insects. Our expedition is for three weeks in the jungle. Cameraman and frogman Tom McNamara and I will go beyond the dead ends of roads, deep into the neotropical forest where few people have journeyed. We'll be well out of range of cellphones, subjected to the harsh realities of weather, insects, and disease, and there's definitely going to be no Twitter. The voyage to our camp in Peru will take four days, three airplanes, a half-day boat ride, and a trip by helicopter—dropping into a little-charted region between the rivers Tapiche an...
