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Photos of animals in Costa Rica (Central America) [updated 2009-03-26]


Below you will find a collection of photos from Costa Rica. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 2008. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.









Mottled forest frog



Brownish-red Long-horned Beetle (family Cerambycidae, subfamily Prioninae)



Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle



Orange, green, and brown grasshopper



Red-breasted blackbird



White-faced capuchin



Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii)



Rainforest canopy crab



Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) with its see-through eye lid partially open



Green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) being examined



Cicada skins on the underside of a rainforest leaf



Red-Eyed Tree Frog in a banana leaf



Red-eyed katydid



Red, black, and orange insect



Swainson’s Toucan



Mottled anole



Green insect with polka dots



White-faced capuchin



Brown toad



Unknown moth



Frog on a leaf



Pair of sleeping dragonflies



Sea turtle hatchlings



Red-Eyed Tree Frog head shot



Yellow moth with a black eye



Taking blood samples from a bird during a parasite assessment



Red-eyed katydid



Green stick insect



Black Iguana (Ctenosaura similis) in a tree



Netting birds for a survey




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Copyright Rhett Butler 1994-2012

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