On our last morning in the Amazon flooded forest, we were walking along an only-slightly-flooded trail when a glimpse of color on a buttress root about five feet away caught my eye. I looked more closely, and at the instant I recognized it as a beautiful little frog rather than an insect it leaped away into the leaf litter. I spent a few minutes trying to rediscover it, but to no avail.

Here is an account of the four days we spent at Uakari Floating Lodge in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve.