Recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica where I was lucky enough to see an amazing array of wild things including howler monkeys, bats, snakes, basilisk lizards, alligators, spiders, iguana, peccary, turtles, poison-dart frogs, toads, caiman, squirrels, opposum, butterflies, and birds in every color of the rainbow. This female howler monkey had a baby that I got a glimpse of now and then through the leaves.