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During a trip to the town of Orellana in the district of Amazonas, Loreto, to fulfill an assignment Carlos had to stop at a village halfway there, as the boat in which sailing had suffered physical damage and the time taken to fix it reached them the night before reaching the destination, two people with him, the pilot who ran the ship and an assistant as he came from the city of Iquitos, was a town Small, thanks to the goodwill of the locals got to stay at a small ramada, shortly after being ground mosquitoes and mosquitoes began to inconvenience passengers with their bites, and had no choice but to take shelter inside the wooden structure supported and covered by two screens, unable to sleep for the amount of sounds of insects and night birds spend hours awake. You could hear the chirping of the cicada, some whistles produced possibly bats abound through the area until late at night they heard a plaintive song like a child crying ... once listened closely and other distant Carlos was touched and began to hear the sad song more carefully until he could distinguish amid the tears that someone said "ayaymama, ayaymama" , "ayaymama, ayaymama" very surprised that he asked the pilot was that rare animal that was able to deliver such a unique sound or cry, and what the pilot said, is the Ayayamama , a bird that comes out at night and searches for his mother, and told him that a mother in very far in a remote village in the jungle had to leave their two children (male and female) in a small stream where abundant fruit, water and fish, to save them, a strange epidemic that had begun to decimate the few people in that village and she began to feel the unmistakable symptoms of the disease, children you were playing, but over time they realized they were alone and felt the lack of maternal presence and began to look in the night lost in the dense forest, feeling defeated began to mourn inconsolably in her crying saying : "ay as we are not birds to fly where Mom, oh Mom ...!" , in the spirit of the mountain that moved by the cries of the children became birds, and they flew, but when it came to his people saw that no one lived, everyone had died. Since then stop flying at night, and when they land on top of a tree, tired of looking for her mother, her singing plaintive vocal "ayaymama ayaymama ... ..." , Carlos moved by the story kept hearing the sad song of the bird and fell into a deep sorrow ...

ayaymama In reality there is a bird whose scientific name is 'Nyctibus grisens' is a nocturnal bird of the Amazon, during the day sleeping in the dry trunks of the trees, camouflaged by color of them ...

ayaymama in the trunk of a tree

Her singing is like the cry of a child, saying Ay Mama! ... and that is their sad story ...

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Story written by: Shiringero .