Huilo Huilo Magical Creatures

This wonderful native forest is a source of continuous wonder and magic itself, the beauty, biodiversity and colors, aromas and dynamism of the seasons change that we can appreciate. Life is at its most noble, from small beings in the dry leaves, mosses, lichens, flowers, vines, birds singing, streams, creeks, mammals and clear skies and starry nights.

Magical creatures of Huilo Huilo rescue and represent the essence and characteristics of temperate rainforest ecosystems. Allowing more closer the places and spaces to keep giving it a special value to every nature, through a story, a story or and small reviews that permit the understanding the behavior of flora, fauna and everything that makes up the various ecosystems.

Ecosystems

The creatures are grouped according to their primary habitat, and therefore have certain characteristics of this type of forest ecosystem, may be equally of all or some of them, according to their characteristics, as they intertwine and are often mixed.

Patagonian Rainforest - Rainforest

They are Fairies, goblin and Elves, the wettest area of these forests. Its features are based on flowers, fungi and trees, part of the Patagonian Forest. Its size is proportional to reality and associated with the forest creatures such as Darwin's Toad, Snail Black, Stag Beetle, among others.

Goblins

There are more than 15 cm, depending on the type of fungus, are very thin to hide in the bark of old trees. They worry about supplying the magical beings of the forest to collect fruits, seeds, fungi and other items as part of the life cycle of the elements of the place.

Fairies

They are based on the flowers of trees, shrubs and soil, with wings that represent the leaves, colors and personality according to the species. And dew collect nectar, small fruits, care for the forest, warn of dangers and help care for injured animals of the forest.

Elves

Their wings are the leaves of trees and their clothing is according to seeds, colors and elements of each species. Its role is healing and travels all ecosystems. It's like a breeze imperceptible to humans, how quickly your flight.

Mountain Mocho-Choshuenco ecosystem and Altoandino

Gnomes

They are robust and strong, and living the high Andean peaks, accustomed to cold and hostile weather, with eternal snow and glaciers. One can differentiate in living up according to color and dress, glaciers, Andean strawberries, hazelnuts, etc. His hat resembles the Mocho and Choshuenco, allowing them to protect themselves from the intense white of the snow on sunny days and rain and snow in the winter, your feet have a solid base, elongated deformation, allowing them to ski in the snow Only with your shoes. They have also a good racket to walk on a slope in the hills. They measure about 40 cm and allow us to perceive a close and friendly facet of our mountains and mountain ranges.

Pampa de Pilmaiquén

This area is a plateau covered ñirre, pioneer specie, which here is very small and slow growing in a valley that is believed to have been an ancient lake covered by a volcanic eruption.

There are places of great interest, watersheds and groundwater resources, wetlands, and diverse vegetation, and can find cat species such as Puma, "Güiña"" and Colo Colo cat. It can be seen the Chilla culpeo fox, Monito de Monte, Pudu and a variety of birds, waterfowl, raptors and from the forest.

The "Marsupios"

They are the magical creatures of this ecosystem, based on a small marsupial, very ancient species, the time when America was joined to Australia, forming a large continent (Gondwana), with species such as marsupials, mammals that carry their young in a marsupium (or pouch).

This "Monito de Monte", often mistaken for a mouse, so it is widely pillaged. The idea is to distinguish and identify the difference with a field mouse, to protect it.

It is a crepuscular be that hibernates much of the heating season, feeding on what stored in the summer on his tail, allowing their survival. In February, when the babies are bigger, take a walk in the evenings in family trees of the area.

They are arboreal, so it can be seen hanging from its prehensile tail, and nest shaped like a bird.

The Spirit of the Patagonian Forest

Is represented by magical creatures of southern huemul, inspired by this iconic species, endangered and unknown, of great nobility and quiet habits, which predates its habitat and defended through mimicry with the environment, which makes perceive it as a spirit, that disappears or appears according to their instinct to protect.

It's a very good swimmer, with a heavy duty leather and features pneumatic, allowing float problem. In adulthood, the male has a Y (Greek) in the deep black color front and forked antlers grow, which distinguishes it from other deer.

They have a highly developed sense of hearing, can rotate each ear separately to detect environmental sounds.

Their presence is evident in the Reserve and will breathe new life and future for these ecosystems.