12. Wildlife of La Selva Biological Station

LOCATION: North-eastern Costa Rica. Caribbean Sea Side ACCESS: By bus from San Jose to Puerto Viejo, it takes about 1.5 hours. From Puerto Viejo to La Selva by taxi, it takes about 15 min. ACCOMMODATION: La Selva is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a nonprofit consortium of more than 50 universities and other educational institutions in the United States and Costa Rica. Refer to their home page: http://www.ots.ac.cr There is an accommodation in the reserve for researchers. If you want to stay here, you had better make advance reservation through the OTS office in San Jose.

BIRDS:→SEE NEXT PAGE The OTS organize guided walks in the rain forest are led by well trained naturalist guides. There are unbelievably numbers and spices of birds in this reserve. More than 420 spices of birds are found in this reserve. "A check-list of the Birds of La Selva" is sold at the shop in the reserve. MAMMALS:→SEE NEXT PAGE 120 spices of mammals are found in the reserve. Lot of animals are observed around the accommodation area. For example, Collared peccary, Agouti, White-nosed Coati, sloths, Hawlar monkey, Spider monkey are seen frequently, and if you are lucky, you would see five spices of cats, armadillos, tapir and anteaters. OTHERS: Many kinds of frogs are seen in this reserve. Especially, Red-and-blue dart-frog is conspicuous. More than 500 spices of butterflies including morphos are observed. There are a lot of beautiful flowers including orchid. You can feel huge primary forest.

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