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Three types of fauna are found
at El Yunque, reptiles, birds and amphibians. There are 8 types of lizards, 13 types of coqui frogs. 50 types of birds, including
the Puerto Rican Parrot which is an endangered specie. There is only one type of mammal natural to El Yunque and that is the
bat, there are 11 types. There are also many varieties of fish, shrimps and other aquatic animal life. Also found, but very
rare are snakes. The Puerto Rican Boa can reach a length of 90 inches. Hunting in El Yunque is prohibited and punishable by
law.
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Flowering plants are one of the beauties of nature. I love to watch them dance with the wind and glisten with the latest rain.
When you photograph them it's like catching and recording their beauty for all time.
But for all their beauty,
I find flowers very hard to photograph. You have to use a macro lens but this limits what you can do; with a depth of field
of only a half-inch, the shot has to be pretty much on a flat plane. And then there is the inside of the flower--a world unto
itself. Sigh.
The next step up is to get an insect in with the flower. You always want something colorful like
a butterfly. And that takes some patience. El Yunque butterflies are the worse--they never seem to tire, they just flitter
and flutter around forever, or land on a flower high in the canopy where you can't shoot.
Thus your imagination
and being able to improvise seems to be the best method of photographing flowers in the wild. So I keep trying. Here are some
of the flowers I found in El Yunque that was fit to show--most photos I trashed.
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