guacharo


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nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter

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It is known as the oilbird because the chicks have very thick adipose tissue around their stomach, that indians use ("guacharo oil") as fuel for lamps.
2 Caves and sinks
(17) 'Guacharo' Caves is spelled correctly in the manuscript; the published 'Guachara' is an error.
Long-lost manuscript: the true antecedents of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their glorious adventure underground
Hyalinobatrachium orientale orientale.- Venezuela: Monagas, Cueva del Guacharo, 1 065 msnm: MHNLS 13353; Rio Pajaral, afluente del Rio Caripe (10[grados]10'10" N-63[grados]20'36" W, 1 000-1 200 msnm), MHNLS 14750-14752.
Una nueva especie de rana de cristal del genero Hyalinobatrachium (Anura: Centrolenidae) del Delta del Rio Orinoco, Venezuela
(2011), en poblaciones muy intervenidas encontraron una densidad de 430 ind/ha y Davila, Alvis y Ospina (2012) encontraron una densidad de 281.7 ind/ha en poblaciones menos intervenidas que se encuentran en el Parque Nacional Natural Cueva de los Guacharos.
Estructura poblacional y distribucion espacial del roble negro (Colombobalanus excelsa, Fagaceae), especie endemica, en fragmentos de bosque andino colombiano
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