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Eira barbara
Tayra or Jaguarmundi? I think Tayra due to the bushy tail...Otherwise very similar. Beautiful creature hunting a hundred meters from my house...
So totally black - magnificent creature ! Great shots Matthew and thanks for sharing.
Fascinating creature .. never heard of it before . Looks a bit scary to me. Great spotting though
Tolomuco definitivamente! Beautiful and hard to spot! on the first shot you can see why they are sometimes called "cara'e viejo" or "old man's face".
Congrats! This spotting has been featured as a PN Fact of the Day!
https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/pho...
Project Noah Fact of the Day: There are over 5,416 different species of mammals in the world. Most are familiar to us, but many are unknown to the vast majority of us. We love featuring some of those lesser known creatures and do so today with the tayra. The tayra is a member of the Mustelidae (weasel family) and is found in the tropical forests of Central America, South America and on the island of Trinidad. An excellent climber, they can sometimes be found in the trees. They are fast runners and can also swim well. They prey mostly upon small mammals, reptiles and birds but will also scavenge carrion and eat some fruits.
Tayra (Eira barbara) spotted in Puntarenas, Costa Rica by PN user MatthewKritzer:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/108...