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The Rainforest Canopy

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RADIO EXPEDITIONS takes you on a tree-top ride aboard the Smithsonian Tropical research Institute's construction crane, set up in a rainforest in the Metropolitan Nature Park near Panama City. You'll rise 100 feet into the sky and extend 115 feet out over the rainforest canopy to look at the diverse life habitats at the very tips of tree branches.

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A crane's view from the top. Hanging among the tree-tops.

Photo by the Smithsonian Tropical research Institute


A crane's view from the top A crane's view from the top.

Photo by the Smithsonian Tropical research Institute




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