Animal Planet, the Pleasant Variety (Darién - Part 4)

After the creepy crawlers and the nightly horrors, it feels proper to point out the pleasant aspects of nature.

Tookie the village toucan greeted me and stayed in my hut. Now this kind of surprise visitor I'm perfectly ok with.

We became great friends after I gave him a peanut, though in hindsight I pitied him as he struggled with the peanut the same way he struggled drinking water.

This neighbors parrot was almost put in the night horrors category because he did a fantastic impression of a crying baby.

Those little round things are bats on the underside of a tree. Easy OCD check - does it bother you that one of them did not line up with the others? 

I spotted a couple different varieties of monkeys:

Along with some other animals:

This place is peaceful, once you get used to the constant companionship of chirping crickets. Suddenly, somewhere in the canopy guerilla warfare erupts. Like drunks at a bar, some parrots start a row. Not to be outdone, howler monkeys assert their territory not by peeing on it, but by howling. I guess they aren’t going for longevity. The whole forest erupts in a cacophony of sounds - howls, hoots, chirps. And suddenly, it stops as suddenly as it started. Peace again.

For maybe 10 minutes. At that point the local pup who thinks he's a guard dog attacks a cat, who yeowls, which wakes every single other dog around and a competition of yeowls, barks and screeches follows. Around 5am the roosters start their day. At that point, well might as well get up.