ITEC's field station (right on the Caribbean!) and our herpetology class.

All four of the frogs above/left are the same species, Dendrobates pumilio. The first is what it looks like on the mainland, where it is called the strawberry dart poison frog or the blue jeans frog. The second is what it looks like on Isla Colon, the third is from Isla Solarte (I also found a yellow one there), and the fourth is from Isla Bastimentos. Amazing.

There is one place on Bastimentos where the D. pumilio are not just red, but also orange, white, gold, and blue-ish, all coexisting. I see five frogs in the leaf litter in this photo. (larger image here)

Here is how I got to see the mainland D. pumilio. Construction is beginning for a hydroelectric dam in the mountains outside Changuinola, and Dania got us a helicoptor ride up to the site. We also saw Dendrobates auratus there, as well as toucans and white-faced capuchins, but a lot of forest has already been cleared.

Phyllobates lugubris normally looks like the one on the left, with a pair of dorsolateral stripes, but I found a weird individual with an additional broken dorsal stripe.

Red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) are incredibly photogenic.

When I got too close to this Jesus Christ lizard (Basiliscus vittatus), it ran away on the water.

Snakes! Imantodes cenchoa, two parrot snakes (Leptophis ahaetulla) in a tree, a yellow morph of the eyelash viper Bothriechis schlegelii, and a tiger ratsnake (Spilotes pullatus).

You don't have to be his mother to love the face of this Kinosternon leucostomum.

A bromeliad-laden tree, near Boquete.

Me in a tree. Joe took us up about 80 feet in a Ficus.

Rebecca is a red-lored parrot, and he likes fresh coconut.

These magnificant frigatebirds occasionally soared overhead.

Montezuma oropendula make these crazy basket nests. You can kind of see the birds, too; they are black with yellow tails. I was experimenting with a binocular-camera combo.
 
Here is where I should have a photo of resplendant quetzals, but I don't. We saw them, though!

This two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) kindly spent the day on a fencepost where we had a good view of him.
 
These bats might be Glossophaga.

We found these scorpions nestled together. It looks like two are real and one is just an exoskeleton.

Phoebe is studying mate guarding in these lubber grasshoppers.
 
I don't know what kind of walking stick this is, but it's pretty neat-looking.

And finally, a beautiful tropical sunset.