I’m still working on my hundreds of photos of birds photographed on Rio Tarcoles Monday, so I will start with one of the last things we saw, a Troop of White-faced Capuchin Monkeys among the trees along Mantas Beach (Playa Mantas), which I first visited while staying at Hotel Punta Leona in March of 2019. The beach photo below was made then. 🙂 The hotel and resort development owns most of the land but the government says beaches cannot be private, so Walter took us to a little trail at the end of one street in the village of Punta Leona to get here, mainly for the monkeys and sloths. I did not get a sloth photo this time, but some of my Canadian friends did. To see more of these monkey photos, go to what will become a sub-gallery of this Trip Gallery: Playa Mantas Monkeys 2025 or if you want more, see my capuchins from all over CR in gallery: White-faced Capuchin Monkeys.
Capuchin & Spider Monkeys
Yesterday was the Howler Monkey with the other two types in the Caribbean lowlands today, the White-faced Capuchin Monkey and the Central American Spider Monkey.
Below is a two-photo gallery on each species plus a link to the trip gallery for each where I have several more photos, plus links to my Costa Rica galleries of each where I have even more photos from my 8 years of living in Costa Rica. Enjoy! 🙂
The Other 3 Monkey Species
There are four species of monkeys in Costa Rica and the Osa Peninsula is one of the few places you can find all four species. Monday in my “People Watching?” Post I included a photo of a Central American Spider Monkey along with an owl photo, both seemed to be watching me as much I was them! 🙂 Click either link above to see that Spider Monkey. And below are my photos from here of the other 3 species found in Costa Rica: Mantled Howler Monkey, White-faced Capuchin Monkey and the small Squirrel Monkey (featured photo) . . .
Continue reading “The Other 3 Monkey Species”White-faced Capuchin at Caño Negro
One of the most common monkeys in Costa Rica and I think the most aggressive in their begging tourists for food are also often the most “human-like” or fun to watch. Here’s a few shots I got at Caño Negro and you can see a lot more in my Gallery White-faced Capuchin from all over Costa Rica. You can also learn more about them on Wikipedia. CLICK images below to see larger:
Other Monkey Blog Posts from This Arenal Trip:
- Monkeying Around Christmas Eve (Black Mantled Howler Monkeys)
- Orange Howler Monkey? (An albino mutant Mantled Howler)
- Central American Spider Monkeys
More of My Monkey Photos
- Monkey Day at The Tower – Arenal Observatory in May 2018 Gallery (Howler & Spider)
- Gallery: Costa Rica’s Central American Spider Monkey
- Gallery: Costa Rica’s Mantled Howler Monkey
- Gallery: Costa Rica’s Squirrel Monkey
- Gallery: Costa Rica’s White-faced Capuchin Monkey
“I learned the way a monkey learns by watching its parents.”
—Prince Charles
¡Pura Vida!