Costa Rica

Brown Basilisk - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio. Basilisk lizards have large hind feet with skin flaps between each toe. This allows them to run upright across water on their hand legs. AIMG_0707

White-faced capuchin - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. These monkeys live in groups of 5 to 30 members. They are very intelligent and they know how to use tools. They even use medicinal plants that contain chemicals that act as insect repellents, fungicides and antiseptics which they apply by rubbing on their fur. AIMG_0711 AIMG_0651

Spiny tailed iguana - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica AIMG_0721

Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica AIMG_0697

White-faced capuchin - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. These monkeys live in groups of 5 to 30 members. They are very intelligent. They know how to use tools and they even use medicinal plants that contain chemicals that act as insect repellents, fungicides and antiseptics which they apply by rubbing on their fur. AIMG_0651

White-faced capuchin - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. These monkeys live in groups of 5 to 30 members. They are very intelligent. They know how to use tools and they even use medicinal plants that contain chemicals that act as insect repellents, fungicides and antiseptics which they apply by rubbing on their fur. AIMG_0652

White-faced capuchin - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. These monkeys live in groups of 5 to 30 members. They are very intelligent. They know how to use tools and they even use medicinal plants that contain chemicals that act as insect repellents, fungicides and antiseptics which they apply by rubbing on their fur. AIMG_0654

White-faced capuchin - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. These monkeys live in groups of 5 to 30 members. They are very intelligent. They know how to use tools and they even use medicinal plants that contain chemicals that act as insect repellents, fungicides and antiseptics which they apply by rubbing on their fur. AIMG_0669

Male Brown throated three toed sloth - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. The brown throated tree sloth is primarily aboreal, returning to the ground once a week to defecate in a hole that it digs with its tail. It has a slow metabolism and spends much of its time hanging upside down from the trees. Its front legs are longer than its hind legs. Its outer layer of fur is very coarse and stiff and overlays a much softer layer of dense under-fur. The hairs of the outer layer of fur have numerous microscopic cracks across their surface in which algae lives. This accounts for the green tint when viewed up close. AIMG_0622