Mammal clay lick

At the end of the walk after about 1 hour and 45 min, we reached the mammal clay lick. This is a 15 mts long clay and water puddle where mammals come to lick clay. The reason is the same as for the mackaws, to neutralize the toxins in their diets of leaves and fruits. There were a lot of footprints of different animals but no animal there.
We waited for about 20-30 min in the hope of spotting some animal, but none came. Then we moved a bit away from the clay lick since Jorge felt that maybe the animals were able to smell us and that could be why they were not coming. We waited another 10 min. It was getting dark so we decided to head back to the lodge.Leia mais