Land Mammals

Whitefaced Monkey – Costa Rica – Photo byNoël Ureña

Costa Rica and especially the lush jungles of Costa Ballena are full of land mammals that you’ll find in only very few parts of the world – such elegant animals as the puma, the jaguar or the ocelot call Costa Rica their home, as well as the unhurried sloth and the bright squirrel, howler, spider and white-faced monkeys! This is only a very small selection, of course; find out more about Costa Rica’s impressive variety of beautiful land mammals in our following articles.