The great attraction of the Emas National Park, in Goiás State, is its steep landscape characteristic of plateaux in addition to fauna that is easy to observe There one can see rheas, lobos-guará, great anteaters, crested seriemas, stags, deer and birds of prey such as the rufous headed falcon and the laughing falcon. With some luck one can also see felines. The great concentration of termites’ nests, which accounts for the massive presence of anteaters, presents a curious and beautiful phenomenon: at certain times of the year it offers a night time spectacle when giving off a blue-greenish phosphorescent light produced by small larvae of termites which grow there. The best time to visit is in the dry season between April and October. In the sections of denser vegetation one may observe curassows and toucans, in addition to primates such as apes and cebus monkeys. Large snakes, such as the anaconda and boa constrictor are plentiful. The ecotourist infrastructure is precarious.
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