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| Great Egrets (Casmerodius albus), Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) normally sleep in big colonies, known as rookeries. |
| The Ovenbirds (Furnarius rufus) normally search for food on the ground and their diet is based on insects and seeds. Males and females work together building the nest for 6 to 8 days. The female laid 2 to 3 white eggs and the parents feed the chicks for almost 25 days before they leave the nest. |
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| Laço competitions are part of the culture in Pantanal. |
| The Giant Anteaters ( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ) tend to be solitary animals - they do not have permanent resting places or nests that they go back to regularly. Adults grow to be between 6 and 8 feet long and from 65 to 140 pounds in weight. Their diet is based on ants and termites and they catch them using their long stick tongue, which can reach almost 2 feet long. It is listed as endangered. |
| The Caiman Lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis) eats snails and insects. Even with the name Víbora (which means viper, in Portuguese), the Caiman Lizard is not poisonous. The only species known in the World are found in the South of United States, North and West of Mexico and Guatemala. |
| The Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata) is related to ducks, geese and swans as a member of the Anseriformes order of birds. Screamer's great defense is that its spongy meat tastes awful. Indeed, hunters hate them because they act as sentinels and, when disturbed, emit screams that can be heard over 3 kilometers away. |
| The Pampas Deer ( Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is an animal of open savannas and cerrado, which used to be found in most of the natural grasslands of South America and South of the Amazon. Unfortunately habitat loss and hunting has wiped it out from most of its former range. It is listed as endangered. |
| The Roadside Hawk (Buteo magnirostris) normally lives close to open areas, nearby forested areas. They are one of the most common hawks in Brazil and they can reach 40cm long. |
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Photographer Profile: Guto Bertagnolli
I am currently studying conservation Biology at Columbia University in New York , a fertile city for artists, a place with endless possibilities and where I am getting in contact with a universe of photographers and their lenses. The idea and the pleasure of photography got in to my life almost naturally. And I feel honored to show these images to you.
Since I was a kid, my curiosity for the unknown, for the green and for the animals, has always led me to readings, to my studies and to outdoor activities. While studying Biology in Ribeirão Preto , Brazil , I became a dive master and worked in a scuba school for almost four years. This job kept me traveling and discovering the Brazilian Coast during my years at the university.
In 1995, I moved to Pantanal, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where I worked for four years - I got fully involved with Ecotourism and, as a result, with Nature Photography.
In 1999, along with two of my best friends, I rode almost 5000 kilometers of the Brazilian Coast , in the project "Pantanal goes to the Beach". Between the cities of Vitória and São Luís do Maranhão, the project publicized the culture and beauties of the Pantanal to the Brazilians who live by the coast, through exhibits, lectures and workshops at universities, resorts, bed and breakfasts and hotels.
Besides six months of pure adventure, we produced large image bank of the Brazilian Coast .
After the trip, I worked as a Biologist and Ecotourism manager in Bonito, also in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. Following that experience, I was invited to work with one of the greatest Brazilian nature photographers and videomaker, where I got involved in television productions and specialized documentaries.
Back to Pantanal in 2002, I worked for a year as a consultant for the region's potentialities in Ecotourism and its connections to the sustainable development and maintenance of Biodiversity in the north of Pantanal.
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