Costa Rica Reptiles
From our trip to Costa Rica -
November 2007
I was expecting to see lots of reptiles and amphibians in Costa Rica,
but there were very few except for iguanas.
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Blue Jeans Poison Dart
Frog
Poison dart frogs have
toxins in their
skin that were used by natives to poison the tips of the poison darts
they used while hunting, thus the name for the frog. He gets his poison
from the ants he eats.
Black and Green Poison Dart Frog
Crocodiles
I took this photo from the safety of a bridge.
Central American Whiptail
Jesus Christ Lizard
So called because they can run across the top of the water for short
distances.
I didn't see any of them do this, however.
A handsome iguanaa. We saw these guys nearly everywhere we went.
Here's another iguana of different colors.
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