Six Titis and a Turtle at Lago 2

At nine in the morning, when the dry forest of the Lago 2 sector still held something of the night's coolness, Carlos Andrés Matas Contr raised his eyes and found what few days offer so freely, all at once: six titíes cabeza blanca moving through the canopy — those small, boisterous primates with their white-and-cinnamon fur, among the most endangered on the planet. One of them had settled onto the wooden platform wedged between the branches and was eating banana with the unhurried focus of an animal that knows no one is coming for it. Lower down, at that same spot, a turtle completed the scene without any rush, indifferent to the commotion above. Carlos Andrés managed to take two photos and two videos before the titis dissolved once more into the gnarled branches of the forest. In one of the images, a second primate is just barely visible in the background, nearly lost in the shadow of the trees. Lago 2 has been offering good sightings for weeks now, but rarely do two such different species share the frame at the same moment. This morning, they did.