Today we discuss one of the rarest reptiles in Costa Rica that happens to resemble one of the most common reptiles in Costa Rica. I’m speaking of course about the five-keeled spiny-tailed iguana. This lizard has a few names in both English in Spanish. In English, it’s either the five-keeled […]
Vincent Losasso
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Last Sunday I was in full dad-football mode. The NFL teams that I actually care about had both lost horribly earlier in the afternoon, and I had transferred my attention to a game where I had no rooting interest whatsoever. What I did have, were my feet kicked up and […]
A senior citizen couple. A father and his ten-year-old son. A mom and her adult kids from the United States. A retired couple who recently moved to a beach town in Costa Rica. My mom. I think it’s safe to say that these are not the type of people that […]
Today’s featured amphibian is the yellow toad, a creature whose method of reproduction is often studied. They are explosive breeders that exhibit dynamic sexual dichromatism. What does that mean? Let’s find out. The yellow toad or Neotropical yellow toad (Incilius luetkenii) is known as the sapo amarillo in Spanish, which […]
If you’re going to make Costa Rica your home and you’re not a native Spanish speaker, I suggest that you put in the effort to try to learn your new country’s native tongue. That being said, it’s not going to be easy. I present to you the three stages of […]
Today we meet the little blue heron. It’s a heron that’s little and blue. Most of the time. The little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) is known as the garceta azul in Spanish, which translates right back to little blue heron. The little blue heron is indeed little and blue for […]
How’s this for a plan? Spend the summer months in southern Canada or the eastern United States and when the weather starts to get a little nippy, fly down to Costa Rica for the winter. This may be the exact life plan of a few of the folks reading this […]
Moving to Costa Rica allowed me to discover and learn about a whole host of new species that I hadn’t been acquainted with before. Birds that I now know well like the long-tailed manakin and Montezuma’s oropendola, were mysteries in need of exploration when I first arrived. On the other […]
The strangler fig is one of the most iconic trees of Costa Rica. They’re present throughout most of the country’s varied landscapes, their life history is fascinating, they’re a food source and home to a huge variety of wildlife species, and they’re just begging to be climbed. Let’s learn a […]
The world of birds is similar to the worlds of cars and celebrities, the pretty ones often get the headlines. Today’s bird is not reaching the podium of the beauty contest, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have other features that make it interesting. It’s oddly tall, it works in […]