my goal as you are today is that
when I finish my presentation
you no longer think of bugs and do not
think of insects
if all of you make a trouble to
the sayings of said insect already fulfilled my
objective and let’s start with a
history 2012
In 2012 a Peruvian spider was made
viral on the internet thanks to a
website to the website of the magazine
wired science and technology
the Peruvian spider was discovered by
an American biologist called
phil towers i feel towers was
walking through the tambopata jungle
where I work had been hired
for my tour company called
rain forest flats to make blogs
videos about the tambopata envelope and I was going
walking through the jungle when he saw a
cobweb a little weird that cobweb what
what was weird had the typical
garbage that can not be found
cobwebs cobwebs are super
sticky moment is everything sticks the
spiderweb
but this cobweb the little blue is
organized a strange way is
organized as a spider in practice
a sculpture of a spider made with
bits of garbage that were in with that
was in the web that had been
stuck to the ctera who had already done
that sculpture is here here is not a
bad photo of a spider is a good photo
of a sculpture of one of the garbage
a telera and is a sculpture a spider
who made it made a spider a spider
much smaller than the sculpture of the
gender cycles to that little spider that’s a lot
smaller than the sculpture makes it
to scare off their predators for
confuse your predators is not a
Chiquita make the big spider mite
in your web and then I can can live
at peace in his web hunting on his own
fabric without having to be looking at their
backs
to see if there is a bird or a spider more
great one who wants to eat it thanks to
what does this sculpture do
then that story went viral to
phil to phil towers made it a one mini
star in the world of entomology
on the internet and to us who are a
tourism company did not generate a lot of
traffic the website a lot of
reservations and a lot of sales and we live
about six months of that story when
finished the story because other
good bad news forgets people
the Peruvian spider and this one
we are left thinking how
we can do so that we as
company is not profitable to invest in
science and mind in investing in carrying
these stories to the rest of the world and that
that I voted a permanent sales traffic
and reservations and we put some friends together
friends get together scientists to
600 Peruvian and Peruvian three boys
English a Spanish and a Hindu a
specialist in plants other insects
another in more mammals one and the harpies
etcetera and the next ones the same
ask what would you do what you would do
you to do science and that that
science generates interest from the whole world
Generates interest in nigeria in russia
people of 8 80 years
suddenly I never travel but I know
that fall in love and become fans of the
Peruvian Amazon and what we discovered when
have these conversations with these
scientists is that today the
technology is so cheap to a
small company in the recondite
department of the mother of God is made
profitable to invest in technology and in
science to produce this knowledge
we do not discover what to sequence
genetically a kind of any
and one grabs a spider in the forest
fly a wasp a monkey sequence the
adn that
the species known or unknown to
The science
it costs only 10 to 20 dollars
depending on the type of organism that is
It does not cost the same with lunch
we discovered that cameras can be put
trap in the forest half out of nowhere
that lasts those whose batteries last three
four months that they take pictures of everything
what moves to the front that in the
half of the jungle are only animals and
that three or four months later I can not
go back to capture all the photos that
is there and watch them comfortably in your
computer
we discovered that one can for 900
dollars this costs 90 x 900 dollars one
can buy a draw and take the
next please can you take pictures
thousands of photos in 20 minutes to 12 the
the jungle 35 meters high when I
I was going to the university to get there
it was very difficult tecos is all day
look at the fruits and the flora of the
trees did looking with binoculars
arching my back like that for minutes
hours
then it was heavy work today
you have a good draw 20 minutes has
5,000 photos of all fruits and flowers
what’s up
all these things opened us
they opened many possibilities and
we decided to get together with these
scientists join this team and this
technology and put together a project
science that we call guaira in
Spanish means the Amazon cable
a little bit how I feel, right now, not
He has spoken, we put cables to everything
that it occurred to us that it could be
interesting to put cables and you
we invite scientists from the
scientists but to ordinary people and
currents from all over the world
help us interpret the information
that we were getting we agarrábamos
Thousands of photos with our cameras
cheating those photos you have to
identify them is a jaguar is a
ocelot is a brand and is a jaguar sinking
no human has yet to see that photo
to identify them then these
scientists do not have hours of hours of
weather
identify the photos we invite to
people from all over the world to help us
with that and today I want to tell you about two
guairá amazon projects that already
we have been walking for a year and which ones have
been the results and especially the
discoveries we have made with
these projects the first one that’s a
project that we call discovers a
species that happens every day in
our hostels that is called refuge
amazonas ay five six or seven our
guests our customers leave all
the nights and place a light trap
a trap lights a sheet with a spotlight
very very intense that attracts insects from
all kinds of nocturnal insects that focus
through among other things policemen and
between the police there is a group of
very different police officers very little known
they are called the tiger moths the
next please
every night our customers
hold 2030 polystyrene specimens
these are policemen pull those balls the
identifies a resident biologist who
daniel calls couceiro everything he
knows everything that he does not
know is sent to the history museum
natural in lima in the history museum
natural in lima
the world specialist of police
tiger that is called juan degrees
again grab that and separate the
policemen that he does not know and the others
the start ones he does not know week
University of Guelph in Canada where
for less than 20 dollars the
genetic sequencing of your DNA in 14
months
the next one please in 14 months 11
our guests have discovered 11
new species of police steve 11
ordinary people in new
york of lime berlin different parts
of the world have participated in enlarging the
knowledge of humanity
We chose these policemen for three
grounds
the first reason is because they are very
diverse
the second reason is because they are little
known the third reason is because they are
a vacilon
no and and the tiger moths are a vacilón
because they have to evade
predators in two moments of day and of
true night the cops are active
in the night but they sleep from day to day
they have these vivid bright colors
they do not want them like that because their way of
warn your predators that
they know or rible is a way to tell them
do not touch me
I’m going to give you stomach pain and in
the night its predators or bats
those are your true predators
those are your main enemies not the
bats do not see or do not know if well but
they do not see us at night, everything is done
for sound, not what the moths do
tiger is emitting a sound in practice
check the navigation system of the
policemen are not then incredible
day and they are amazing at night
the project has been so successful with
our customers like it so much that
we are playing another group of
insects this one is called the wasps
scorpion and they have the same three
characteristics that the police have
various little known and a bacillus and
that makes the crooked cut a vacio
that make scorpion wasps a
Vacilón is that with that son they have
in the abdomen that you come and that is
a huge needle and that needle uses it to
inject their eggs into the abdomens of
spiders and those games are born inside the
abdomen of the spider hatch out a
beard and it is to orbit it has all the
food that mondonguito spider does not need
be when you finish eating saldaña and
he’s a smart guy and he’s flying
then it is our project and hopefully in
a year the wasps biologist can come
scorpions and the 15 new species of
scorpion wasps next
the other project that I want to tell you
it’s the haarp
the haarp and cam is a project that has
to do with an amazing animal in the
jungle the harpy eagle is one and that of a
meter ten centimeters one of the three to
and the largest in the world and the most
powerful the harpy eagle has a claw
it has so much strength in its claws that
when monkeys head home to them
breaks the ukraine ssu his way of wedding
breaking the skull of monkeys with their
human claws hence the little known
it is difficult to find an eagle nest
Harpy when we discovered
walking through the bush an eagle nest
Amazon refuge harpy
we decided to put a camera trap
see what happened
We put a trap camera 35 meters away
tall on the tree in front of him and
we leave it filming and that camera
It retransmits by wifi retransmits to
a to a device down thing that you do not have
to risk a human going up
every day to download the photos not
because that would be risky with one and
the one that can break your skull
this then goes down every so often
we go for wifi we take our our
photos our video sorry in this case
we take video and I want to show you what
that we have discovered the purpose of
video said by the way is we want
know that I started pigeon how much meat
eat what kind of meat you eat that makes
error game the father that on Thursday the
mother in the breeding ela and lab that does
what are the risks of one of a
eagle in a nest as you avoid those
risks
not all of this before had to be done
as he described a little while two
hours a day looking at the child like that
through a bunch of branches leaves
impossible
It was very difficult and the data I got
It was not unreliable to have stayed
slept in the maid and kisses in order
it was not reliable not now with a video
they sign 12 hours a day we have everything
registered
I’m going to show you the video one minute
the highlights of two weeks ago in the
mine in the life of a harpy eagle
the jungle or knowing it does not have sound of the
Mother Mother is a little bigger
that the father so it’s easy to
identify and how every mother spends a lot
more time with the son that the father is
putting him this ramadan I feed
pichona and he went hunting not and some
minutes later the father arrived who did not
had been in the nest for 13 days
followed by 13 days we appeared on
father who does father there not minute
after the father arrives the pigeon
gets under the pope’s chest and he
it stays there and the minutes start to
increase the wind
look how the plume moves the
harpy eagle
look how it starts to rain and move
the wind that pigeon and the size one
hen and the wind does not fly it would have
United blowers would have dropped 35 meters
If I had died
the storm lasted much longer than
the video lasts when the storm ends
the aila
father dad or sect looks at the pigeon
it comes out from below it took off as if not
nothing would have happened and he paid back
to stand there on a branch to look at what
is happening
the Pope plays a little recognized role
but criticized not what we realized
out there is my wife laughing too
be these things were not known about the eagle
Harpy and a little bit the message to
all of us is that today there is a
scientist inside one if there is a
naturalist inside one no matter what
make it is not possible to relive this
scientist revive this naturalist
contribute to science in the world
with very little or very little investment with
very little effort and the most incredible of
everything is that if you do it they go to
more surprising what to me more
surprised all this is easy is
discover new things still in
our planet and that’s that’s what
you see all this that’s why the
which is worth doing all this
because discover
new things is fun is entertaining
and it gives a lot of satisfaction
I leave it there thank you very much
me
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