"Scarlet macaws. Very colorful and very loud. They were eating fruits in the trees"
"White-faced capuchin. This monkey almost peed on me"
"Howler monkeys. They had babies"
"Jaguar track we found on the trail"
"Jesus (Hay-sus) holding a puffer fish"
"Coral with a blue fish"
"Moray eel my Uncle Dan saw"
Jeweled moray
"I don't know"
Flag cabrilla
"Bats"
"Leaf-nosed bats hanging on a leaf"
"Crocodile. We saw a crocodile almost eat a dog. The dog was swimming out and not paying attention to anything and the crocodile head straight for him and snapped at him and the dog swam to shore with the crocodile still following him."
"A cicada I found"
"Tree"
"Dink frog"
"Wolf spider"
I don't think it's a wolf spider
"Trapdoor spider. This mini-spider digs a little hole in dried clay and moss and makes a door and is able to close the door by itself. The way it eats is it closes its trap door and when she senses a prey walking towards her hole, she snatches out of her trap door and eats it!"
"Land crab in a tree"
"I don't know I never saw it"
Helicopter damselfly
"Oh yeah, I saw it"
"Why does it have a flower in it?"
Because it is a coconut with a seedling growing out of it
"Leafcutter ants carrying its leaves down a tree. We saw trillions of them"
"Owl butterfly. We saw this a butterfly farm"
"Squirrel monkey at our lodge. They came because they put out bananas for them"
"Net spider. It makes a small net at the end of its legs and when prey comes along on the branch, it throws the net down and eats its prey"
"Frigatebirds. They were circling an island that was infested with birds"
"Peccary/piggish thing. Very smelly. I had to hold my nose. They are covered with mud and very dangerous"
Butterfly migration. We happened to arrive during the week when a species of butterfly moves north in great numbers. They flowed in the thousands over the water along the coast.
A crazy monkey that could often be found in our room...
"Thanks for reading our trip log"
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