Costa Rica Part 2--Herpetofauna

Here is part 2: Herpetofauna (or reptiles and amphibians for non-environmental science nerds). I'm not very good with herps, so these IDs are very tentative and subject to change.















A ctenosaur sunning in Palo Verde and a leaf litter frog posing in La Selva.















A cane toad we chased under a bench and then took pictures of in La Selva.









A huge basilisk in La Selva. If and how these big ones run on water is a mystery. And a strawberry dart frog! We saw hundreds, but they are really difficult to get a decent picture of (partly because they are an understory species so the light always sucks, and partly because they move all the time).









This is not a good picture by any means, it's just in here for the memory. About 15 seconds after it was taken the snake (a barred forest racer) was handed off to me, and it promptly bit me. No worries though, it was young and didn't even break the skin.