Mike in the Wild

My spring visit to Peru gave me a fount of inspiring material to publish.  And my last stop on my adventure - two days and one night in Lima, a sprawling South American capital city - was surprisingly not a disappointment in that regard either.  Like in every big city, house sparrows and rock pigeons populate the urban landscape.  But a visit to a local landmark, the Larco Museum, reminded me why I started writing about the natural world in the first place: there are new and fascinating wildlife discoveries in every corner we look. The Larco Museum displays a wide range of pre-Columbian art and craft work from most of the native cultures that called Peru home.  Since the power and expanse of the Inca people was a recent phenomena when Francisco Pizarro conquered their empire, many other indigenous populations left a more extensive treasure trove of artifacts to admire today.  At the Larco, both elegant and commonplace pieces from all these cultu...