Sunday, May 11, 2008

Leaf Cutting Ants - Chalalan, Amazon basin, Bolivia

In the Madidi National Park we saw these tiny bits of leaves walking across the path. We looked a little closer and saw that these tiny ants were carrying these bits of leaf for miles. Well, maybe not miles but for a long way.

3 comments:

richard said...

HEY . SO IVE BEEN FEELING LIKE A TRUMAN STYLE LEAFCUTTER ANT OF LATE . IVE BEEN DEFOLIATING THE HILLSIDE BEHIND 845 . FIRECOUNCIL MEETING ABOUT FIRE TURNED INTO AN " ARENT WE GREAT" FEST. MY DAD EDDIE CRAIG AND I BASICALLY GOT SHOUTED DOWN WHEN WE TOLD ABOUT BEING LEFT ON OUR OUR ON THE SUN NTE .. SO WE REALLY ARE ON OUR OWN, SCREW EM . YOUR DAD GOT US ALL TOOLS, HOSES , ETC .. THE GREAT QUOTE WAS THAT NO HOMES WERE THREATENED , WELL I FELT EXTREMELY THREATENED . SORRY ... RAMBLING , SHOULDA JUST SENT YOU AN EMAIL . FUN MOMS DAY HUNG W GIRLS AND MONKEY BABIES. BEANTOWN , ARBO , RUDYS MEXI... HOPE ALLS WELL GONNA TRY TO SURF IN PERU . IF SO ILL TRY TO GET AHOLD OF FRIEND IAN . HE HAS A HOUSE AT PICO ALTO , HERMOSA . TA , BISOUS A H ALA SHACK FOR MOMMIES DAY TA LOVE R

Koen said...

Hi Michael,

It's been a while! Thought I get in touch...what a way to find you back!
Great too see you're still going strong...

Here's what I've been doing. Quite unspectacular compared to you:
Still didn't manage to move to a place where I can surf permanently.
Living in London with a kid these days. Both my wife and I working for
a Hedge fund and Bank. Not exaggerating if i say we got zero life
quality. All work and no play.Trading in the financial markets has
been no joke these days and was actually working for Bear Stearns when
they blew up (not my fault, I swear). Starting for a US hedge fund in
October.

This means I have a couple of months time to kill. My wife has given
me permission to travel. Would be awesome to catch up and have a surf
together. (No worries as I have money to pay for a hotel these days.)

Last thing I know you were launching a surf clothing brand with Sven.

Has your beer brand broken through?

Let's catch up soon!

Koen from Belgium

what's your email? mine's koen.de.keyzer@gmail.com

Koen said...

by the way that whole travel thing is evil. You're supposed to settle down, have kids, behave 'responsibly', boring job, talk about the old days...you're doing it all wrong...makes the rest of us feel really bad...