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| Keel billed Toucan, Laguna de Lagarto Lodge, close to Nicaragua | | | | | | |
When watching them I could not help wondering why they developed this oversized beak.
One function & explanation seems to be temperature regulation: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mystery-of-the-toucans-beak-solved-1759284.html
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/why-toucans-have-big-bills/
if you search for it on google, the first two results are creationists sites
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| Anolis |
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| Ameiva festiva- central american whiptail |
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| Anolis, love these little guys |
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| and another |
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| and one more |
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| Green Basilisc (Basiliscus pulmifrons), Sarapiqui |
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| Beach close to Uvita de Ballena |
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| No Idea bout the bird species, just liked the shape ;) |
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| Bornarea sp., Volcan Poas |
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| Bothrops schlegeli, eyelashed Viper, hanging bridges of Arenal |
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| Bromeliads rule |
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| Amazing plants even grow on wires |
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| and natural substrates |
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| Caesalpinia sp. |
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| Capuchin monkey,Manuel Antonio |
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| see above |
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| Cashew nuts |
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| chestnut mandibled toucan |
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| Coconut to be, Uvita |
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| Making coffee |
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| big scale |
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| My drugs. Coffee Beans. |
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| small scale |
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| Lagoon close to Nicaragua, absolutely loved canoing there. Bliss. |
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| Pupae checking at Costa Rica Entomological Suppiles, La Guacima |
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| Butterfly Breeder at CRES |
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| Croc in the Mangroves, Guanacaste |
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| Crocs from a bridge, somewhere between Uvita & San Jose |
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| Dendrobates auratus |
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| Dole bananas |
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Honduran white bat, Ectophylla alba, saw these at the wonderful place of a butterfly breeder, close to Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui.
Picture not too good, I know.
These are white fluffballs which build tents out of heliconia leaves and spent the day there, roosting together. |
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| The dry northwest, Guanacaste. Hot but superb hiking. |
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| Pier |
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| Frigatebirds, Mangroves, Guanacaste |
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| Frog in a swimming pool, Uvita |
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| Laughing falceon, Guanacaste |
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| not too dense Rainforest, close to Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui |
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| Gunnera, Volcan Poas |
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| Gunnera Leaf |
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| My bed for 2 nights. Nice :) |
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| Iguana |
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| Howler monkeys, Guanacaste. I counted 23 in two trees. |
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| Some Hummers |
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| Yellow headed gecko, Gonatodes albogularis | |
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| Variegated squirrell |
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| Anole shedding it´s skin |
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| Morning walk at Laguna de Lagarto Lodge |
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| Lagoon Pics at Laguna de Lagarto |
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| love Leaves |
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| Brown headed parrot, Pyrilia haematotis |
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| Tree full of orange chinned parakeets or Tovi-parakeet , Brotogeris jugularis, morning walk in Guanacaste |
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| Scarlet macaw |
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| Tree close to Mangroves, Guanacaste |
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| Santa maria de Dota, looking for the Quetzal in the Mountains |
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| Mushrooms wrong way... |
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| Oophaga pumilio, Blue Jeans Frog, LdL |
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| Montezuma Oropendula |
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| Paraponera or Bullet Ant. The really hurt. |
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| Parrot Snake, Manuel Antonio |
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| Passiflora Vitifolia, Uvita |
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It´s kind of weird for me to know this ( host plant for Heliconid caterpillars) by it´s latin name when I saw it in the forest.
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| Pelicans |
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| Poas |
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| Cloud Forest at Poas |
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| Possum, yippieh ! :) Last night of eyshining in Costa Rica, Uvita. Saw two species, Didelphis marsupialis and this should bethe woolly Opossum, Caluromys derbianus |
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| Quetzal |
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| Red eyed Treefrog, not sure which of the two specise. half natural setting, this guy should be sleeping as they´re nocturnal |
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| Saline |
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| Sleeping treefrog |
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| Sloth |
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| Orange chinned parakeet |
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| Brown hooded Parakeet |
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| Spectacled Caiman, LdL. They feed them there, just about the only thing I did not like about that place. |
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| Squirrell in Gunnera, Poas |
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| Squirrell monkey, manuel Antonio |
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| Guanacaste |
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| Sunset, Uvita |
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| Saccopteryx bats close to the river, Sarapiqui. Missed these guys ;) |
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| Cicada, pic taken at Night, Uvita. They make a lot of noise |
