The Tupi people, one of the main ethnic groups of Brazilian indigenous people, believe in a male supernatural being called “Curupira” that guards the forest in Tupi mythology. I crowned this BLOG with his name because I aspire the BLOG, which deals with insects as part of the nature, to play a role just like Curupira who protects the forest from the destructive habits of man.
23 Oct, 2008
A cruise ship carrying 1300 passengers, mostly American, docked at the port of Manaus this past week.
On Monday and Tuesday, a total of ....
about 100, i.e. 9% of the ship's passengers, visited the Museum, riding in 4 buses.
Most of them were pensioners or people with savings to live on in retirement.
And most of them had an ample waist of over 100cm; some with a girth of more than 200cm had a trouble climbing the stairway of the Museum and had to use the wheel-chair ramp.
dragon waiting visitors
The FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) statistics represent the energy required to produce a unit amount of food in terms of an amount of corn, for example, 10kg of corn for 1kg of beef, 5kg for pork, 2kg for chicken, etc.
According to the FAO , per capita annual beef consumption amounts to 140kg in USA, Canada and Brazil, while Japan consumes a little less than 120kg per head yearly.
Taking account of some variations in beef intake between the rich and the poor, let's assume that we eat on the average 2kg of beef every week, about 100kg of beef in a year. So you might say that those considerate visitors to my Musem are the rich people who can afford to consume 1000kg, or 1 metric ton, of corn every year.
The photo shows buses that brought tourists to the Museum.
On the same day a bus carrying a group of Jewish youngsters also stopped by (the white bus in the middle).
I had accepted reservations for 3 groups of Japanese tourists for the week, but one of the groups, 26 people who wanted to visit the Museum on Monday morning, were unable to come here because some confusion in communication had forced them to change their itinerary while I was not aware of the miscommunication, thereby failing them in their need.
I can't apologize enough to those of you concerned.
Penned on October 23, 2008
