Costa Rica is home to more than 500,000 species, making it

one of the 20 countries with the highest biodiversity

in the world. Due to the wide variety of habitat

within the small country (about the size of West

Virginia) including tropical rainforest, deciduous

forest, coastline (both Atlantic and Pacific),

cloud forest, and mangrove forest, a wide variety of mammals,

amphibians, reptiles, birds, and insects call Costa Rica home. Listen for

the bay of the Mantled Howler Monkey, look closely for the

camouflaged coat of the sleepy Sloth, and hope you’re lucky enough

to spot the colorful plumage of a Resplendent Quetzal.