Costa Rica is the most ecologically minded country in the world, preserving 1/3 of its land for wilderness. The size of the US state of West Virginia, Costa Rica’s environment is incredibly diverse — it has rainforests, cloud forests, tropical beaches, dry uplands, and many, many volcanoes. Going on nature tours and hiking, I was fortunate enough to see the animals in this post in the wild. This is a history Instagram account, and this post merges the historical patrimony of biological diversity with Costa Rica’s current environment.
The animals here include: two-toed sloth with baby, baby bats, a tarantula, an iguana, hummingbird, lizard, frog named “ecnomiohyla fibrimembra” and only the second time in history discovered in its juvenile state (!), poison “blue-jeans” tree frog, bullet-ant/”Hormiga Bala” (the deadliest creature I encountered in Costa Rica, used in an initiation to male adulthood ceremony by the Sateré-Mawé indigenous people of Brazil reminiscent of the Pain Box ceremony given to Paul Atreides in _Dune_), Mexican Hairy porcupine, Coati Mundi, Blue Morphus butterfly, “Keel-Bill” Toucan, hummingbird “Violet Sabrewing”, Slim-Fingered litter frog, viper, three-toed sloth with baby.
