Costa Rica: Explore Amazing Wildlife

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Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Costa Rica vacations are quite famous due to the beautiful rainforest with over 500,000 flora and fauna species. It is known as one of the top 20 countries with unique biodiversity and abundant wildlife.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Exploring untouched wildlife is one of the top things to do in Costa Rica. Thus, it is quite the opportunity of a lifetime, if you get to visit and take a firsthand look at the amazing wildlife of Costa Rica.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 The National Geographic has called the Osa Peninsula’s Corcovado National Park ‘the most biologically intense place on Earth’ as it contains about 5% of all wildlife species found on our planet. Quick Fact

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Costa Rica Snakes

Hognosed Pit Viper The snout-like nose is the standout feature for this native Costa Rican rainforest snake. This venomous beauty’s bite does not cause death but leads to a lot of pain and swelling.

Parrot Snake This slender snake is a bright green, bronze, or golden colored mildly venomous reptile. It feeds on lizards, small birds, and frogs.

Eyelash Viper Known for its beautiful ‘eyelash’, this venomous snake’s bite will inject a potent hemotoxic venom that can kill an adult human. Eyelash viper is an aggressive snake and strikes when threatened.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Costa Rica Birds

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Trogon Trogons are hole nesters and feed on wasps, termites and their larvae. It has long blue-green plumes on the tail, black blue or gold-green breasts, red belly, and a gold-tinged mantle.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Keel-billed Toucan Also called the sulfur-billed toucan or rainbow-billed toucan, it is the national bird of Belize. It is a social bird that lives in a small flock of 6-12.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Great Green Macaw Also known as the great military macaw, it is the largest parrot, the 2nd heaviest macaw species, and the 3rd heaviest parrot species in the world.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Mammals of Costa Rica

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Three-Toed Sloths Known as the slowest mammal on earth, the three-toed sloth is covered in algae. It spends most of its time hanging on tree branches motionless for hours.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Jaguar This endangered large cat is shy and mostly nocturnal. It hunts monkeys, agouti, deer, birds, peccary, fish and other animals.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Mantled Howler Monkey Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 That unusual echo you hear in a forest, is that of a mantled howler monkey, famous for its loud vocalization. Its calls are often heard at sunrise or sunset, which it uses to communicate with the troop.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Weird and Exotic Animals of Costa Rica

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Strawberry Poison Dart Frog This is a weird yet amazing animal of Costa Rica. It can change its color from red bodied blue legs to green with black spots to navy blue.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Golden Orb Weaver This amazing spider of Costa Rica can spin gold silk that is strong enough to catch small birds. It is also the oldest surviving species of spider with a venomous bite that is rarely fatal.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Tapir Tapirs may look like mini-elephants with a trunk. These solitary animals use their elongated upper lip to grab food such as fruit, leaves, and twigs.

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. From Basilisco to Capuchin monkeys, from the massive American Crocodiles to the evasive Puma, you have a long list of amazing animals of Costa Rica. Do visit this country and encounter wilderness like never before.