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Rainforest rangers
Peter pointed up. ‘There are two eyespot butterflies.’ Gillian looked up, too. ‘They’re
huge!’ she exclaimed. Exactly what she thought was huge was ambiguous. If she’d
looked to her left, she would’ve said the same about a couple of hairy spiders on the
tree’s buttress roots there. No ambiguity there! Patrick, resting against a buttress
root, didn’t bother looking. His attention was fixed upon a group of gigantic ants
crawling past him. Wisely, he didn’t bother to bother them. The hikers’ voices had
attracted the interest of a banded snake. It slithered quietly and unnoticed towards
Peter, shooting its forked tongue in and out as it approached. Unnoticed, too, by
the hikers, was a large chameleon clinging upside-down to a vine hanging down
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behind them. Its skin camouflaged it to seem to be merely an off-shoot of the vine;
and like the vine, it hung perfectly still. The only give-away of its presence was the
yellow of the tongue curling out from its mouth. The little predator was watching an
enormous centipede that was crawling over the tree buttress immediately below
the vine. The centipede itself was hunting four beetles that scuttled away before it.
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