Common Name: Grouper Type: Fish Family: Serranidae Range: The most common and prominent species of Grouper, Nassau and Black grouper are available in abundant in tropical and subtropical seas. The Nassau is having an oblong large body with big eyes and spiky fins. The Black groper has an oblong large body and a big lower […]
Common Name: Hammerhead Shark Type: Fish Family: Sphyrnidae Range: Hammerheads are available worldwide in the warmer waters along coastal lines and continental slope. They are different from most of the sharks, hammerheads shark usually go swimming in schools all through the day, but become private hunters during the night. Few of such schools could be […]
Common Name: Tailless whip scorpions, also known as whip spiders and Amblypygids Type: invertebrate Family: Phrynidae Range: These Tailless scorpions range through Guatemala, and several parts of Costa Rica. Tailless whip scorpions live under loose tree bark, in cracks and at the base of tree trunks, or tree holes, canes and inside animal burrows. They […]
Common Name: Spider Monkey Type: Mammal Family: Cebidae (New World monkeys) Range: Spider monkeys are normally found in tropical rainforests of Central and South America, and in regions in north like Mexico. They reside in the lush green rainforests, mangrove jungles and flat lowland to mountain forests. Spider monkeys favor wet forests more willingly than […]
Common Name: Sperm Whale Type: Mammal Family: Physeteridae Range: The sperm whales have a large geographic range. It is presented almost in all oceanic but usually found in continental slope or deeper water. In December and January each year, sperm whales can be observed along the coastal line of the Corcovado National Park in Costa […]