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Bosque Seco Lalo Loor65 viewsThe Lalo Loor Dry Forest -- in Spanish, the Bosque Seco Lalo Loor -- is now open! School groups, birdwatchers, scientists, tourists, we have something to offer everyone. Where else can you see howler monkeys just a few minutes after entering the forest?
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Dipsas gracilis82 viewsThis snail eating snake, photographed at night at the Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve, uses its flexibly and dislocating lower jaw to inch around the inside of a curled snail shell until it's lower teeth snag on the snail and pull it out to be eaten.
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Entry trail60 viewsThe main trail from the EcoCenter and entrance back to the Biological Station, through a nice example of dry tropical forest.
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Hamadryas amphinome butterfly67 viewsThe "click" butterly makes a sounds like snapping fingers in courtship.
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Dry Forest Butterflies Poster59 viewsThis educational poster was created by Maria Fernanda Checa, a graduate student at the University of Florida studying butterflies at the Lalo Loor reserve.
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Manabi Biological Corridor - Progress 201030 viewsSeries of images showing Ceiba's progress towards creation of a biological corridor composed of private protected forests. The Lalo Loor reserve forms a key component of the corridor that stretches across Ecuador's Jama County, in the northern part of Manabi province.
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Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant90 viewsThis comical-looking fellow was captured in ongoing biodiversity surveys at the Lalo Loor Dry Forest reserve.
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Trachycephalus jordani tree frog72 viewsThis "bony headed" tree frog was discovered on the ground at the Lalo Loor reserve. It has a curious anatomical feature: the skull is fused to the skin above it, giving the top of the frog's head a unique look.
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Giant walking stick63 viewsCeiba staff discovered this enormous walking stick in the upper reaches of the Lalo Loor forest. No doctoring has been done to this picture!
     
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