A few Costa Rican Animal Pics

[heavydc2]

Well what better place to show these then here. What do you think?

a howler monkey:
http://www.chandev.com/costarica/animals/howler.jpg

one of the other residents of our hotel:
http://www.chandev.com/costarica/animals/iguana.jpg

A yellow belly something...that did not like how close I was to its nest.
http://www.chandev.com/costarica/animals/yellowbelly.jpg

Leaf cutter ants working away. not really in focus, it was too dakr for the camera, and the ants were hauling butt, although it was a neat pic.
http://www.chandev.com/costarica/animals/leafcutters.jpg

[joefitz]

Cool pics! Gotta get down there one of these days...

[Mr. Slippery]

Is that a monitor in the 2nd pic? How big was the rest of him? My buddy has one he got as a baby(8 or 9 inches) and he was told with the right environment he could grow to be over 4 or 5 feet long.

[Brian]

Dave, were you standing in their path when you took that shot? I made that mistake once in Belize... MAN those guard ants (or what ever the massive ones that protect the group are called) have quite a sharp bite!!!

[seawillow]

Cool pics..I've heard it's an awesome place to see...

[heavydc2]

I think thats an iguana, it was about 2-3 ft long with tail I would guess. we saw them walking along the side of the road most of the time. They would go into the drainage holes at night, in the evening when we would walk from the restaurant to our room you could see the end of their tails coming out of the 3 or 4 inch tubes. I think they were so used to people you could walk right by, and they would not even care.

I was not in the ants path, but they were really neat. I have a few other shots of them, but because of the trees it was too dark to get a good picture.

After looking at the picture fo the monkey on a different computer, I realize I need to brighten it up, on my laptop you can see the teeth of it.

Costa Rica is a very nice place with a ton of stuff to do. We had a ball. Lots of photo ops too, I took over 800 pics while I was there.

[Scuba_Dave]

I was on one Island, and there was a baby monkey (not too small) in an animal preserve area. The monkeys could come & go as they please. I bent down (I wasn't close) to zoom in & take a pic. Mama monkey came up behind me & slapped me on the ass to tell me to back off!!!

[heavydc2]

LMAO, slappin you in the ass to keep you line... Geesh Dave if it not your wife its the monkeys.

[Scuba_Dave]

I thought it was my wife at 1st, turned around to see this monkey looking at me (not the wife!!). Just glad she didnt decide to bite me in the ass!!! :o

[heavydc2]

I forgot to post this one. Here is the sea turtles we saw on the first day we were there. One was getting a ride.

http://www.chandev.com/costarica/animals/seaturtles.jpg

[jango]

those are some nice pics i need to go there, i have a few friends that own homes there.my little buddy always tells me i can use his house right on the beach,i should just blow all my money and go

[Keith Sheridan]

Dave I am pretty sure that is a Tropical kingbird.
I will post my CR pics too. I got some decent ones.

Also the lizard is a Black Iguana.

Where in CR were you?

[heavydc2]

Thats yellow breasted something Keith, I just forget what. We were in Guanacaste, the north pacific side. We stayed in the gulf of papagayo to be exact.

[JustDavidP]

I forgot to post this one. Here is the sea turtles we saw on the first day we were there. One was getting a ride.

:D Yeah... a ride! When I was in Reno this Summer, some guys were cruising the street corners looking for a ride too! :)

[Keith Sheridan]

http://images.yorkphoto.com/33%3B54%3A%3B923232%7Ffp63%3Dot%3E2335%3D35%3B%3D7 33%3D589455b272%3A4%3A23%3D323268367936%3Bnu0mrj

This says it all, huh? Makes me jealous.

[Keith Sheridan]

http://images.yorkphoto.com/33%3B54%3A%3B923232%7Ffp63%3Dot%3E2335%3D35%3B%3D7 33%3D589455b272%3A4%3A23%3D3232683678%3C58nu0mrj

But I sure did like the Squirrel Monkeys as well.

[Keith Sheridan]

Hummingbirds were fun...

http://images.yorkphoto.com/33%3B54%3A%3B923232%7Ffp63%3Dot%3E2335%3D35%3B%3D7 33%3D589467b272%3A4%3A23%3D323268367%3A335nu0mrj

[jango]

i wish i was the monkey in your first pic keith...i could sleep on a tree branch right now...

[Brian]

OH that was a monkey... I thought it was Keith up in that tree, sorry man My bad.

[Keith Sheridan]

I'm not that hairy.