Arenal Ecozoo

16/04/2022

21/01/2020

Venga y Hospedese en nuestra completamente equipada casa, con la mejor vista del lago y volcan arenal, exelente privacidad para disfrutar en familia, parqueo privado y terraza con vista panoramica, llamenos para mas informacion!

27/12/2019

Good morning, did you know that most amphibians will lay their eggs in water to keep them from dehydrating, leaf frogs found a different way.
They lay their eggs out of the water hanging from leaves near ponds where they won’t dehydrate and are also pretty well protected from predators.

Here you have a photo we took in our gardens where you can closely see the red eye tree frog eggs starting a new journey.
Come to Ecozoo and be amazed with all the wildlife.

19/12/2019

¡Come with us on a night hike into a tropical rainforest!

We provide the necessary equipment and safety to observe Costa Rica’s stunning wildlife. We often see reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds, mammals, and more—it’s amazing what the night can offer.

Contact us for more information: 📞 (+506) 2479 10 58 / ✉️ [email protected]

🇨🇷 Venga y disfrute de una excelente caminata nocturna por el bosque tropical lluvioso con el equipo y la seguridad necesaria, donde podrá observar gran biodiversidad de reptiles, anfibios, mamíferos, insectos y aves. Con un guía especializado que te mostrará la vida silvestre nocturna.

Contáctenos para mayor información: 📞 2479 10 58 / 📩 [email protected]

18/10/2019

Nueva piel. Nuestra Matabuey (Lachesis stenophrys) recién mudó su piel.

New skin. Our beautiful Bushmaster (Lachesis stenophrys) just changed skin.

14/10/2019

Check this out!

Revisen esto!

A NEW SPECIES OF MONTANE PIT VIPER FORM SOUTHERN AMERICA.

During the last decade, the Andean Mountain Range in South America has been the theatre of many newly discovered species of pit vipers. This phenomenon is due to the wide array of different altitudinal habitats that characterized the area as well as the lack of exploration of this region. In this poorly known area of South America, on the Bolivian side of the Andes, where a photographer took a pic of an unknown Bothrops species.
The clade Bothrops (sensu latu) is a group of pit vipers divided into 51 species which are distributed all over Southern America. All Bothropoids are characterized by a venom which is considered highly toxic and of medical importance for human beings.
Phylogenetic analysis has been done in order to classify the undescribed species of Bothrops found, using samples from ten specimens successively found in Bolivia and Peru. From the results the new species was found to be related to both “B. neuwiedi” and “B. jararaca” species groups, even if this was supported by medium-low values. The new species was named Bothrops monsignifer (Timms et al. 2019) after the volcanic area where the first Bolivian specimen was found. It seems to be restricted to high montane forests of the eastern slope of the Andean Mountain Range, where it is likely to be found in areas with large trees exposed to sunlight. B. monsignifer can probably reach over 150 cm in length and due to its size, this species is probably able to inject a high quantity of venom. For this reason, B. monsignifer should be considered potentially lethal to human even if its distribution and habitat choices make accidentally encounters probably unlikely.

In the picture morphological differences between Bothrops monsignifer (A), Bothrops sanctaecrucis (B), Bothrops atrox
(C), Bothrops mattogrossensis (D), Bothrocophias andianus (E), Bothrocophias microphthalmus (F), and Bothrops brazili (G). (Timms et al. 2019)

Link to the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4656.1.4

13/10/2019

Here you go with some of the last photos we took down at the center.

Aqui les presentamos algunas de las ultimas fotos que tomamos en el centro de manejo ECOZOO.

31/08/2019

We got in to two thousand followers.
Thank you guys.
Pura Vida

Llegamos a los dos mil seguidores, esperamos seguir creciendo.
Muchas gracias a todos
Tuanis!

17/07/2019

Arenal Eco Zoo tuvo participantes el día de hoy en el Mini simposio de Herpetólogas que se llevó a cabo en el INSITUTO CLODOMIRO PICADO.
Los jóvenes Eimmy y Víctor Jr con el objetivo de seguir enriqueciendo el conocimiento para poder compartir mejor información cada día con los visitantes y amantes de los reptiles.
Educación para conservación.

15/07/2019

Monitoreo de poblaciones.

15/07/2019

Excelente día para disfrutar en nuestro bellísimo pueblo.