Vincent Losasso

Living in Costa Rica means sharing space with snakes. Learn simple, practical steps to reduce the chances of snakes entering your home

Cattle ranching has been interwoven into the fabric of Guanacaste for centuries. Historically, enormous haciendas employed sabaneros, Tico cowboys, to raise cattle on the sparsely populated land. Recent history has seen a shift from agriculture and cattle to tourism and hospitality, but you still can’t drive very far down the road without having to maneuver around a herd of hulking cows that are completely indifferent to your driving needs.

Discover the vibrant and family-friendly atmosphere of Costa Rica's beaches during Semana Santa (Holy Week), as locals flock to the coast for a festive celebration.

After years of tracking jaguars on camera traps in Costa Rica, one wildlife guide finally gets a fleeting real-life glimpse of the big cat he had long hoped to see.

Civetone is a powerful macrocyclic ketone and the primary odoriferous constituent of natural civet. Known for its warm, intensely animalic, and powdery-musky scent, it is a key, long-lasting fixative in high-end perfumery.’

Over the years of offering wildlife monitoring services using camera traps, I’ve had many projects come and go. Some last a few months, others last several years. No matter the length of the project, each one comes in two distinct phases, the first phase, the beginning, and the second phase, the rest. The beginning of a project involves more adventure and discomfort, but once I power through that, the rest of the project becomes more comfortable and routine.

Sometimes I record something interesting and I think ‘I should share this with the good people who read the Tico Times,’ but whatever it is I want to share isn’t quite enough for an entire article. It could be because I’ve already written about that particular creature or a video is neat but doesn’t really need a full page of text to accompany it. I’ve decided the best way to share this sort of information with you is to smoosh a couple of unrelated tidbits into one article and label it Latest News. Let’s dive in.

Camera traps in Guanacaste capture raccoons, hawks, an ocelot and a blacktail cribo feeding on Pacific fat sleepers during Costa Rica’s dry season.

Camera traps in Costa Rica reveal surprising wildlife behavior, including a young ocelot napping in a tree and crocodiles resting on a fallen log

Costa Rica camera traps captured crocodiles and birds eating marbled swamp eels, strange air-breathing fish that can survive on land and change sex during their lives.