Our hotel offered several tours. We weren't interested in swinging through trees on ropes, and instead opted for a boat trip through the Cano Negro nature preserve.

On the way up we stopped at a cafe which has attracted dozens of land iguanas to hang out in the adjoining trees. This male is ready to breed.

In the Okavango swamp in Botswana, we'd seen lots of African jacanas. Here was a northern jacana hanging out in the marsh land.

The boat driver spotted the jacana's nest, and stopped to give us a look.

Here's a sloth climbing around in the trees next to the river. We also saw and heard howler monkeys in the trees, but didn't get any good pictures. The next morning we heard a very loud roar at 5:30 in the morning, which turned out to be a howler monkey near our hotel.

Here's a basilisk lisard, Basiliscus plumifrons. They're also called Jesus lizards, because they can walk across water. They propel themselves with a little three step involving both hind legs and the tail, the details of which have only recently been worked out.

An Amazon kingfisher.

A cormorant drying its wings.

A line of little bats on a tree. (Ray spotted them, being particularly acquainted with the ones that were living in our roof.) These bats try to blend in with the tree, and when threatened move back and forth so that the group of them appears to be a slithering snake.

The most unusual bird we saw was this boat-billed night heron.

Here's a snake bird drying off its wings. It's called that because after it dives for fish and sticks its head up above the water, it looks like a snake.

A male Jesus lizard.

A tree full of egrets.

One of three caymans we saw lounging next to the river.

A cute dragonfly of some sort.

On to Arizona