Wildlife Spotting

Love this! Thanks for sharing all your great photos from the Loreto/Iquitos area of Peru on our mission! We are gearing up for Amazon Awareness Week with Project Noah (sometime between July 8 and 22) and hope you will be on board to help with ID and comments! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8910217 Thanks! ~ Christa Dillabaugh, Education Director, Amazon Workshops

Beautiful capture!

The question would be what your dog is doing on that tree ;-)...

bayucca, very true. I think I have shaved mats off of cats and dogs that looked a lot like this.

At first sight it may look like a caterpillar, but the Megalopygidae I saw have usually a better hairdresser, meaning regularely combed hairs.

Perhaps a caterpillar? There are some species of moths that have caterpillars that look very similar. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with Amazonian caterpillars. Good luck with an ID!