With plenty to see, among poisonous green frogs, tucans,
flowering banana trees, flowers, butterflies, tree canopy,
and lizards, it was a great bit of diversity in an afternoon.
 
Here, at 300 mm,
we capture the famed
tucan on film.

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A poison arrow frog
(Dendrobates auratus)
scampers along ...


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... and very quickly
quickly hops away.
They can really move.


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A picture of me
photographing our
little poison arrow
frog above...

Photo by Jon Kohl


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A flowering banana
tree shows its stuff.
My 1st picture of one
was outside Santa
Barbara, Honduras
.


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A typical pink
colored flower.

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A 'costus' slowly
opens and begins
dispersing its
fragrance...

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A brown butterfly
surveys the scene
from a large leaf.

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Cecropia trees are a
pioneering species that
grow, live, and die fast
to be replaced by
longer-living, canopy
building trees.


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This was supposed
to be a path, but
with over 200 inches
of rain per year, the
vegetation quickly overgrows it.

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Costa Rica is a paradise
for smaller lizards such
as this blue-tailed
skink (Ameiva sativa).

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