Jaguár v kocovině – Dungel Jan (2024)

In the heart of the jungle with a brush and a machete. A message about the beauty of nature and the diversity of life in the tropics of South America in the texts and drawings of painter and naturalist Jan Dungel. ***** The book 'Jaguar in a Hangover' is a collection of reports from Jan Dungel's painting journeys through South America. In these, the author draws from his working diaries and brings readers closer to remarkable encounters not only with wild animals but also with local inhabitants and their culture. All this against the backdrop of several years of filming documentaries aimed at capturing the current state of neotropical nature – its beauty, suffering, and hope for salvation. ***** Jan Dungel, painter and biologist, first set off for South America in 1992 as a member of a research project of the Zoological Department of the Moravian Museum and the Venezuelan natural science foundation FUDECI. Since then, he has organized expeditions that systematically penetrate completely unknown and unexplored areas at the northern foothills of the Neblina mountain range on the borders of Venezuela and Brazil. ***** In 2004, he first documented an unknown species of primate, which was later described as the Neblina uakari (Cacajao hosomi). An expedition he participated in 2007 precisely mapped the connection between the watersheds of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, which had previously...