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| Variegated Squirrel Hogar de Vida Campus, Atenas, Costa Rica |
This is the most common squirrel all over Costa Rica, but there are two other kinds of squirrels and I have photos of all three of them. See this search of squirrels on my gallery:
Rare Pygmy Squirrel found in Only 4 Countries
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| Alfaro’s or Central American Pygmy Squirrel Curi-Cancha Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
Microsciurus alfari, Alfaro’s Pygmy Squirrel or Central American Pygmy Squirrel is rare and lives only in mountain pine forests of Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. In Costa Rica they are at Monteverde where these photos were made and they are in the Talamanca Mountains. I did not see one on my earlier trips to the Talamanca mountains.
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| Alfaro’s or Central American Pygmy Squirrel Curi-Cancha Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica |
A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit! ~Sarah Jessica Parker