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This little guy is called a
basilisk lizard or the Jesus

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Christ lizard, because
it can run on water.

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And it liked to hang around
and leave its tail in the pool

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to cool off.

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We went on a canopy
walk, and there

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was one member of our party
who was deeply frightened

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but did eventually get
across these bridges.

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They were about 80
feet off the ground.

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It was hot.

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And again, I don't have
any idea what this is.

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So, Liz, if you know,
I'd be glad to know.

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That's what it looked
like looking down.

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And that's down.

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Next, sideways.

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And that's part way looking up.

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And, forgive my
imagination, but I

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looked at the tingles of the
strangler fig and saw lawsuits.

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"Canopy Walk."

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Bridges give, swing
underfoot, hold

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us suspended 80 feet up among
towering rainforest treetops.

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12 at once cross.

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Steps shudder, bridge
ripples each boot,

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shifts solid
assumptions, our weight

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no longer where we planted.

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Over the edge, strangler
figs tangle, never

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ending lawsuits starving out
root and branch of one that

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lifted toward light,
tiny rooted epiphyte that

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took over this host's life.

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Now reaching down, the
bountiful fig sinks in,

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offers shelter, food,
its questionable example

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to all creatures from
fern glade forest

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floor through each branching
story up into canopy,

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green arc, a breath above us

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