In buckets along drift nets Mahmood has established, we retrieve several species of anuran.  The sheep frog Hypopachus variolosus (a new FAMILY of frog for me: Microhylidae) below is by far the most unique and bizarre. 

This Painted Wood Turtle was a pretty sweet find… especially because I found two of them.  They are absolutely beautiful and, according to Savage (the gigantic herp book for Costa Rica), they are commonly kept as pets.  I was seriously tempted to do so, since I haven’t had much turtle interaction in a while.  I think the sole reason I didn’t was because I don’t have a tank or other container… maybe I could just let it wander around in my bedroom.

The majority of the anoles here seem to be Norops cupreus. In fact, I have yet to see another species, although I haven’t identified all individuals that I’ve caught given that some of the are females or juveniles, which makes them more difficult to identify.

He appears to be lost.

Very long, red legs. I love the picture on the right.

This time, we saw the coral snake and I got an image of it… although somewhat crappy since it’s head was below the litter.  I wasn’t exactly willing to force it from hiding.  Boa, on the other hand, made a somewhat violent attempt though.