 Poor man's umbrella |
 Large-footed finch |
 The lake at Poas Nat Park in the clouds |
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 Bromeliad |
 Shelf fungus |
 Coudforest ecology |
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 What we saw |
 Same view two yrs earlier! |
 Poor man's umbrella |
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 Don't touch |
 Stick insect |
 Leaf litter frog |
 Katydid |
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 Millipede |
 Strawberry poison dart frog |
 Green and black poison dart frog |
 Cicada molting |
 Strawberry poison dart frog |
 Basilisk lizard |
 Leaf cutter ant |
 Leaf cutter ant with quality control hitchhiker on leaf |
 Leaf cutter ant |
 Termite nest |
 Banana plant |
 Oropendola nests at Selva Verde |
 Sloth at Selva Verde |
 Howler monkeys barking at sloth |
 Bridge over the Rio Sarapiqui |
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 In da Rainforest |
 In the Old Growth rainforest |
 Golden orb-weaver |
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 Red-capped Manakin (see info) |
 Trail to the almond tree |
 Ancient almond tree |
 Slaty-tailed Trogon |
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 Bats |
 Emerging from his den |
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 Azteca ant guarding its symbiotic host plant |
 Defensive stance - don't touch! |
 The plant feeds sugar to the symbiotic ants that protect them |
 Howler |
 Bat presentation |
 Face to face |
 Cute little fella |
 Bat researcher |
 Tadpole hitchhiking on back (see explanation below) |
 Father with tadpole on back |
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 Listo |
 On the rio |
 Armadillo |
 Remember this view? |
 Only fallout from the sky was lot of rain |
 Eyelash pit-viper! |
 Always alert for wildlife spotting |
 Nice spot! Welcome to Guanacaste |
 PH Cowboys |
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 Huge rainforest buttress roots |
 Strangler fig |
 Volcanic fumarole |
 Fumarole steaming |
 Boiling volcanic hot spring |
 Volcancito |
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 Thorns - common in the dry forest |
 Volcanic mudpot |
 Rincon de la Vieja National Park |
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 Is today a school day back home? |
 Muscle beach |
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 Under the waterfall |
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 A hard day's work |
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 Buena vista |
 La Mirador |
 Tonight's dinner |
 Volcanic mud brothers |
 Going tribal |
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 Parrots nesting in termite nest |
 Gumbo limbo tree |
 Bullhorn acacia - symbiotic ants live in large swellings |
 Gumbo limbo |
 The Big House at Santa Rosa Nat Park |
 Santa Rosa National Park dry forest |
 White faced capuchin monkey |
 Capuchin |
 Capuchin foraging for fruit |
 Clever capuchin |
 Getting a drink |
 Invasive wildlife |
 Spider monkey |
 Check out her hand - no opposable thumb in this species of primate |
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 Pura Vida! |