Saturday 10 November 2018

Tortugero - Wildlife

Here it is, the stuff you've all been waiting for!  WILDLIFE!!!

OK, maybe it's only me, but I really love the wildlife!

Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Bugs

Blue Jeans Frog (Strawberry Poison Dart Frog Morph)
Red webbed tree frog
Jesus Christ lizard (no photo) 
Bullet ant
Golden Ant
Purple giant grasshopper 
Leopardy looking fish (???)
Crab
Humongous spider (???)
Cute tiny lizards
Crocodile (small)

Birds

Anhinga (no photo)
Green heron
Collared Aracari (small toucan)
Tiger heron
Black vulture
Social flycatcher
Great kiskidee
Baltimore oreole (no photo)
Great egret
Northern jakana (no photo)
Grey necked woodrail
Green macaw

Mammals

3 toed sloth
White faced Capuchin
Spider Monkey 
Mantled Howler monkey

Blue Jeans Frog (Strawberry Poison Dart Frog Morph)
Red webbed tree frog

Bullet Ant

Bullet Ant

Golden Ant

Golden Ant

Purple Giant Grasshopper

Fish ???

Crab

Spider too large to swat with a newspaper


3cm long lizardlet


Croc!


Birds

Green Heron

Collared Aracari (small toucan)

Collared Aracari (small toucan)
Tiger Heron

Black Vulture
Social Flycatcher
Kiskidee



Great Egret

Tiger Heron ?

Tiger Heron  ?

Grey necked woodrail

Green Macaw

Green Macaw

Mammals

3 Toed Sloth

These guys are totally un-photogenic.  All you can see most of the time is a grey brown hairball high up in a tree!  There are 2 videos which makes it easier to see them, here, and here.


with baby!


This one might be a 2 toed sloth with a baby



White Faced Capuchin

These guys are soooooooooo cute!








Howler Monkey

Whilst the noisiest of the monkeys, they also seem to be the least easy to see


Yes, in this pic there is a howler monkey. Not easy to see, but...

Spider Monkeys

After an initial distant glimpse of just one, we were then treated to a large group of them passing over the canal we were on.  Video of that is here, and here

The only glimpse I thought I was going to get



And then, next morning on the way to breakfast, there was this happy little tribe in the lodge grounds!  Video here








The underside of their prehensile tails isn't hairy, it's leathery like their hands

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