An actively hunting Bothrops asper beside a trail in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize. Everyone who enters the tropical environs has fears of the unknown, and the biggest fear for […]
Photos by Shannon Fortenberry, Glover’s Reef Resort, Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize, May 2010. Weatherman geckos (also known as the Saint George Island gecko) are so named because they make a […]
Fer-de-lances are the most abundant venomous snake in Central America, and probably also part of South America they inhabit. They are certainly common in Trinidad, where they are called mapepire […]
Photo by Bob Thomas, Refugio Amazonas Lodge, Tambopata National Park, Peru, November 2007. Also called the hormiga bala, giant tropical ant, and 24-hour ant (the latter due to the 24 […]
Photo by Keese Quist, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2006. Photo by Keese Quist, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2006. Photo by Keese Quist, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2006, prepared to call. Photo by Keese […]
Photo by Frank Jordan, Glover’s Reef Resort, Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize, May 2010. Lionfish are quite beautiful and distinctive fishes that are characterized by bright red, white, and black banding […]
Photo by Bob Thomas, Refugio Amazonas Lodge, Tambopata National Park, Peru, November 2007. If leaves had no mechanisms to shed water in the rainforest, they would be incessantly covered with […]
Photos by Bob Thomas, Tikal, Guatemala, May 2005. This small snake is distributed along the Atlantic versant from southern Veracruz, Mexico, through Belize and Guatemala into northern Nicaragua. It feeds […]
Tropical Natural History 