It was on the seventh day that the news broke. Alan picked it up from the satellite feed, which he accessed on his phone only once a day, out of […]

Alan crouched, hidden in dense brush and peering at the back of the house. Rather than drive right to the property, he’d parked on a half-overgrown road on the edge […]

When Alan awoke, he felt refreshed and lucid once again. He immediately called Varig, TAM, and UniWorld airline shuttles, but none of them had available that day the leg from […]

The jaú floated virtually motionless, calmly anesthetized in the lab’s circular aquarium. Alan gazed with admiration at the powerful catfish, which nature had sculptured and adapted over eons of time. […]

Getting permission to capture fish in the Satobra or purchase specialized ichthyocides would never come, at least not during the time Alan was still in the country. There was no […]

Much of the Pantanal remained frontier. Its harsh climate of high summer temperatures and seasonal flooding, and its poor soil, made for few noteworthy settlements. Cattle and ecotourism remained the […]

It was two days later when Alan saw the jaú again. This time it was evening, and he was in his field research laboratory reviewing the recordings. The research lab […]

Dr. Alan Butler lifted his sunglasses, used the back of his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and stared at the monitor. The dorado was still doing nothing. […]