Arenal Ecozoo

21/01/2020

Venga y Hospedese en nuestra completamente equipada casa, con la mejor vista del lago y volcan arenal, exelente privacidad para disfrutar en familia, parqueo privado y terraza con vista panoramica, llamenos para mas informacion!

27/12/2019

Good morning, did you know that most amphibians will lay their eggs in water to keep them from dehydrating, leaf frogs found a different way.
They lay their eggs out of the water hanging from leaves near ponds where they won’t dehydrate and are also pretty well protected from predators.

Here you have a photo we took in our gardens where you can closely see the red eye tree frog eggs starting a new journey.
Come to Ecozoo and be amazed with all the wildlife.

19/12/2019

¡Come with us on a night hike into a tropical rainforest!

We provide the necessary equipment and safety to observe Costa Rica’s stunning wildlife. We often see reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds, mammals, and more—it’s amazing what the night can offer.

Contact us for more information: 📞 (+506) 2479 10 58 / ✉️ [email protected]

🇨🇷 Venga y disfrute de una excelente caminata nocturna por el bosque tropical lluvioso con el equipo y la seguridad necesaria, donde podrá observar gran biodiversidad de reptiles, anfibios, mamíferos, insectos y aves. Con un guía especializado que te mostrará la vida silvestre nocturna.

Contáctenos para mayor información: 📞 2479 10 58 / 📩 [email protected]

18/10/2019

Nueva piel. Nuestra Matabuey (Lachesis stenophrys) recién mudó su piel.

New skin. Our beautiful Bushmaster (Lachesis stenophrys) just changed skin.

14/10/2019

Check this out!

Revisen esto!

A NEW SPECIES OF MONTANE PIT VIPER FORM SOUTHERN AMERICA.

During the last decade, the Andean Mountain Range in South America has been the theatre of many newly discovered species of pit vipers. This phenomenon is due to the wide array of different altitudinal habitats that characterized the area as well as the lack of exploration of this region. In this poorly known area of South America, on the Bolivian side of the Andes, where a photographer took a pic of an unknown Bothrops species.
The clade Bothrops (sensu latu) is a group of pit vipers divided into 51 species which are distributed all over Southern America. All Bothropoids are characterized by a venom which is considered highly toxic and of medical importance for human beings.
Phylogenetic analysis has been done in order to classify the undescribed species of Bothrops found, using samples from ten specimens successively found in Bolivia and Peru. From the results the new species was found to be related to both “B. neuwiedi” and “B. jararaca” species groups, even if this was supported by medium-low values. The new species was named Bothrops monsignifer (Timms et al. 2019) after the volcanic area where the first Bolivian specimen was found. It seems to be restricted to high montane forests of the eastern slope of the Andean Mountain Range, where it is likely to be found in areas with large trees exposed to sunlight. B. monsignifer can probably reach over 150 cm in length and due to its size, this species is probably able to inject a high quantity of venom. For this reason, B. monsignifer should be considered potentially lethal to human even if its distribution and habitat choices make accidentally encounters probably unlikely.

In the picture morphological differences between Bothrops monsignifer (A), Bothrops sanctaecrucis (B), Bothrops atrox
(C), Bothrops mattogrossensis (D), Bothrocophias andianus (E), Bothrocophias microphthalmus (F), and Bothrops brazili (G). (Timms et al. 2019)

Link to the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4656.1.4

13/10/2019

Here you go with some of the last photos we took down at the center.

Aqui les presentamos algunas de las ultimas fotos que tomamos en el centro de manejo ECOZOO.

31/08/2019

We got in to two thousand followers.
Thank you guys.
Pura Vida

Llegamos a los dos mil seguidores, esperamos seguir creciendo.
Muchas gracias a todos
Tuanis!

17/07/2019

Arenal Eco Zoo tuvo participantes el día de hoy en el Mini simposio de Herpetólogas que se llevó a cabo en el INSITUTO CLODOMIRO PICADO.
Los jóvenes Eimmy y Víctor Jr con el objetivo de seguir enriqueciendo el conocimiento para poder compartir mejor información cada día con los visitantes y amantes de los reptiles.
Educación para conservación.

15/07/2019

Monitoreo de poblaciones.

15/07/2019

Excelente día para disfrutar en nuestro bellísimo pueblo.

12/07/2019

La naturaleza jamás deja de sorprendernos.

Lagartija tica puede bucear hasta 16 minutos bajo el agua😲🦎
Una lagartija costarricense capaz de respirar hasta 16 minutos bajo el agua fue observada por Lindsey Swierk, profesora asistente de Ciencias Biológicas en la Universidad de Binghamton, Nueva York y mentora del curso "Experiencias de Investigación para Estudiantes de Pregrado" (REU por sus silgas en inglés) en Las Cruces. Swierk y un equipo de investigadores que la acompañaban, decidieron grabar las inmersiones y mediante estas observaron que durante su tiempo bajo el agua, la Anolis aquaticus parecía respirar a través de una burbuja de aire que cubría su cabeza.

Lizard in Costa Rica is an underwater marvel 😲🦎
A Costa Rican lizard able to breathe under water for up to 16 minutes was observed by Lindsey Swierk, assistant professor of Sciences Biological in the University of Binghamton, New York and one of the field mentors of the REU Las Cruces 2019 summer course. Swierk and, the team of researchers that accompanied her, recorded the dives and observed that during his time underwater, the Anolis aquaticus seemed to breathe through an air bubble that covered his head.

29/03/2019

En estos días de lluvia ven a disfrutar de un tour fantástico en nuestros senderos bajo techo!

In these rainy days come to enjoy a fantastic tour in our indoor trails!

21/01/2019

Diploglossus monotropis

*English below*

Escorpión coral.
Es una especie de lagartija terrestre no venenosa y muy hermosa que habita los bosques tropicales húmedos de tierras bajas y elevaciones medias de la vertiente del caribe costarricense, sin embargo no sólo se encuentra en Costa Rica, si no, desde Nicaragua hasta Ecuador.

Se alimenta de diferentes invertebrados como cangrejos e insectos y vertebrados como roedores y pequeñas aves.
Su tipo de reproducción es vivípara.

Sin duda una especie de las más coloridas y difíciles de observar de la gran variedad del orden Squamata, lamentablemente muchas personas tienden a sacrificarlas como un animal venenoso cuando en realidad no lo es.

Red galliwasp
It is a non venomous species of lizard very beautiful, that lives in the low land and medium altitudes of the tropical rainf forest of the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. It’s distribution starts in Nicaragua and goes all the way down to Ecuador.

It prays on different types of invertebrates such as crabs and insects. As well on vertebrates like rodents and birds.
It’s a viviparous animal.

One of the most colorful and difficult species to see of the huge variety of the order Squamata. Unfortunately some people kills them because they think it is venomous when is totally not.

06/01/2019

Boa de manglar.
Corallus ruschenbergerii es su nombre científico, esta serpiente con colores llamativos y escamas brillantes pertenece al Pacífico sur de nuestro país, cumpliendo ahí su función en el ecosistema. Estos individuos no son venenosos y no representan una amenaza para la salud humana aunque si pueden morder, son cazadores de aves, ratones y lagartijas principalmente aunque también puede comer murciélagos ranas y otros.
Educación para la conservación.

25/08/2018

La bella vista del majestuoso Volcán Arenal desde nuestro serpentario