Today’s wi8ldlife photos came from Charles Dunlop, who notes that they were taken in Costa Rica in 2019. I’ve indented his brief captions, and my own IDs are in brackets. Some of the animals are unidentified, so feel free to weigh in in the comments. You can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
Violet sabrewing [Campylopterus hemileucurus]:
Scorpion under black light:
Snake seen on night walk in Monteverde:
Coati [Nasua sp.]:
Crested guan [Penelope purpurascens]:
Cherrie’s tanager [Ramphocelus passerinii costaricensis]:
Iguana [Iguana sp.]:
Capuchin monkey [Cebus sp.]:
Jesus Christ Lizard [Common basilisk, Basiliscus basiliscus]:
Agouti [Dasyprocta sp.]:
White-throated magpie-jay [Cyanocorax formosus]:
Howler monkey [Alouatta palliata]::
Wonderful collection
“Sabrewing” took me a moment to figure out how to pronounce 😁
Great variety of wonderful creatures!
Wow! You saw so much!
Thanks.
I think that you basilisk is actually the closely-related helmeted iguana – https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Corytophanes
They are a lot slower than basilisks, tending to rely upon camouflage, and to the best of my knowledge, they can’t or don’t perform the walking-on-water manoeuvre.