Animal pics

Black and green spotted poison dart frogs jumped around our feet near a small stream our first morning here. Surprisingly these smooth skinned amphibians are only about an inch in size. Can you see it on the top of the rock?

Again, if you have the sharp eyes of a hawk, you'll see the blue morpho butterfly with its wings shut. The underside of its wings is brown and you can see eye spots. When blue morphos fly around, their scales are an iridescent blue. They are an amazing flutter of color. The bottom photo is of the great tinamou. 

On our night walk we saw cool nocturnal animals such as a flower eating kinkajou, a wooly opossum, bats, turnip tailed geckos, and the creepy hill of tarantulas! 

Animal Pics

 

What is the last thing that you want to see when you're walking around in sandals at night? Dr. Willis' husband shined his flashlight near the dining hall to reveal a hill full of tarantulas! Yikes! My toes may never recover! We found a gecko on the side of the building laughing at me. Before dinner, a troop of spider monkeys passed by our room.

Animals

You have to be quite stealthy to sneak up on rainforest animals using an iPhone! So far I've seen troops of loud howler monkeys, mischievous spider monkeys, a lazy tamandua anteater, two varieties of squaking toucans, large turkey-like birds called the great tinamou and crested guan, tiny black and green poisonous dart frogs, white geckos, brown agouti, bats, shimmering blue morpho and brilliant orange tiger wing butterflies, and a variety of lizards and small insects. I'm not quick enough to capture fantastic photos, but here are a few of my attempts.
 
Don't strike this punching bag look-alike or you'll be covered in termites! At the bottom of the log is a brown termite trail. 

Here's an agouti eating nuts for breakfast.