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Toucan in Amazon basin region of Guyana
A toucan, one of over two-hundred animal species recorded by indigenous people hired as technicians to work on an animal population study in the Amazon basin region of Guyana.
[Research supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant DEB 0508094).] (Date of Image: 1995-1999; Date added to Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 28, 2011)
Credit: Jose Manuel Fragoso and Kirsten Silvius
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