Costa Rica

🦥Sloth: The slow-motion acrobat, a tree-dwelling mammal so unhurried that moss grows in its fur.

🪶Resplendent Quetzal: The sacred bird of cloud forest — emerald plumage and a train of feathers that seems to float on mist.

🐸Poison Dart Frog: A jewel of the rainforest floor — tiny, brilliantly coloured, and famous for its toxic skin.

🙉Mantled Howler: The voice of the canopy — a black monkey whose dawn howls can carry for kilometres.

🦅Harpy Eagle: The rainforest's crowned giant — one of the world's most powerful eagles, built to snatch monkeys from the canopy.

🐸Red-eyed Tree Frog: Costa Rica's jewel frog — neon green, scarlet eyes, and blue-and-orange flanks that flash when it leaps.

🐵White-faced Capuchin: Costa Rica's clever monkey — white face, black body, and a talent for tools and troop drama.

🐜Leafcutter Ant: Tiny farmers of the rainforest — ant columns carrying leaf fragments to underground fungus gardens.

🐆Ocelot: Spotted stealth of the Americas — a medium wild cat threading rainforest and scrub by night.

🦋Blue Morpho: Electric blue flashes through the forest — iridescent wings that vanish when they close.

🐸Fleischmann's Glass Frog: See-through belly, leaf-edge nests — Costa Rica's translucent streamside jewel.

🦝White-nosed Coati: Ring-tailed forager of the Americas — a mobile snout probing leaf litter and canopy.

🐒Geoffroy's Spider Monkey: Five-limbed canopy acrobat — prehensile tail, long arms, and Endangered rainforest grace.

🍯Kinkajou: Honey bear of the night canopy — prehensile tail, nectar tongue, and rainforest sweetness.

🦏Baird's Tapir: Living fossil of Mesoamerica — prehensile snout, stout body, and Endangered forest gardener.