ML141271
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Subject 1: Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). Timecode In: 00:07:20. Timecode out: 00:07:36. Notes: Time of Day: 1420. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Paddling water. Timecode In: 00:15:32. Timecode out: 00:17:23. Notes: Time of Day: 1430. Subject 3: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Rainforest ambi, Walking. Timecode In: 00:18:45. Timecode out: 00:28:54. Notes: Time of Day: 1440. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Walter Mancilla Huam��n. Timecode In: 00:33:58. Timecode out: 00:59:00. Notes: Amazon indigenous peoples. Subject 5: Undulated Tinamou (Crypturellus undulatus). Timecode In: 01:02:40. Timecode out: 01:02:46. Notes: Time of Day: 1725. Subject 6: (Interview). Subtitle: Charles Munn. Timecode In: 01:02:57. Timecode out: 01:37:26. Notes: Time of Day: 1725; Manu National Park. Subject 7: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Cicada ambi. Timecode In: 01:34:02. Timecode out: 01:34:08. Notes: Time of Day: 1755. Subject 8: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Upper rainforest canopy ambi. Timecode In: 01:38:43. Timecode out: 01:42:36. Notes: Time of Day: 1805. Habitat: Rainforest, Lake; Rainforest, ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH50 Hypercardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax Preamp into Sony TCD7. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Peru Log of DAT #: 7 Date: 1999 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions Show: Peru Log of DAT 7 Absolute Time: Walking through forest with Charlie Munn 1:02:30 - 1:03:37 JN: My god, what a tree! Somebody planted magic beans to grow that one. CM: Yup, I don¿t know where the giant is, maybe up top. JN ¿ what¿s that? CM: that is the undulated tinimu. JN: I knew that. CM: Cuvier¿s Tucan, like a little yapping dog. JN: where are we? CM: We are standing under the huge cotton capoc tree, and we¿re about a 10 minute walk from the Manu wildlife center on the Madre de Dios river here in the Manu area, and here¿s a big spiral staircase that takes you up to a platform up in the top of this huge tree. JN: Well, let¿s go. CM: you first John? JN: Yeah, and if you want to talk at various points to Leo about the parts of the canopy we¿e passing through, give us a little ecology lesson. CM: okay. 1:03:37 - 1:04:10 [They begin to climb staircase] CM: I think it¿s safe to say we¿re coming out of the understory now, this is sort of the first layer of small trees, most of which don¿t get bigger than this, we¿re talking about 15, 20 feet up, that¿s about where they stop. 1:04:10 - 1:04:57 [continue climbing] CM: Now we¿re starting to get to the sort of second layer of trees and in this case it¿s some medium sized palm trees and mostly the trunks of some bigger trees going up even higher, there¿s some medium sized palm trees that are at this second level of trees. [climbing] 1:04:57 - 1:06:43 CM: Now we¿re kind of at a third level of trees where in this case you have trees that are about, lets see, we¿re about 70 feet up now, and almost in the lower canopy trees if you will. The canopy trees that aren¿t quite on top of the canopy. They are sporting a lot of vines that are growing on their canopies. [getting winded] CM: now we¿re about 90 feet up now, and¿ this tower goes up about a hundred feet, and so at about a hundred feet is the general canopy of most trees around here. And so here we are. [reach the top] We¿re on a big wooden platform in the top of this huge cotton capoc tree, the biggest tree in the New World jungles. Not the tallest, but by far the most massive. So it¿s like a huge platform that¿s big enough to be the Swiss Family Robinson¿s treehouse. 1:06:43 - 1:07:59 CM: And because we¿re in this huge tree, it¿s an emergent, it sticks out of the canopy. The emergent tree, this cotton capoc goes up to about oh, 130 feet or so, and its branches stick... (Notes truncated)
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- Giant Otter Pteronura brasiliensis
- Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 29 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 29 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 29 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman