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A Field Guide To The Large Wildlife In Panama

Few places on earth offer the wildlife-watching and close-to-nature immersion experiences you will find in Panama's rainforests.

Explore the amazing biodiversity of wildlife in the tropical cloud forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca, the wild eastern mountains of Serranía de Tabasará, ...more ↓

Agoutis 1
Dasyprocta
Colombian Night Monkey 2
Aotus lemurinus
Panamanian Night Monkey 3
Aotus zonalis
Geoffroy’s Tamarin 4
Saguinus geoffroyi
White-throated Capuchin 5
Cebus capucinus
Central American Squirrel Monkey 6
Saimiri oerstedii
Central American white-faced capuchin 7
Cebus capucinus imitator
Mantled Howler Monkey 8
Alouatta palliata
Coiba Island Howler Monkey 7
Alouatta palliata coibensis
Brown-headed Spider Monkey 9
Ateles fusciceps
Central American Spider Monkey 10
Ateles geoffroyi
Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine 11
Coendou mexicanus
Andean Porcupine 12
Coendou quichua
Capybara 13
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Coiban Agouti 7
Dasyprocta coibae
Central American Agouti 1
Dasyprocta punctata
Spotted Paca 14
Cuniculus paca
Rufous Soft-furred Spiny Rat 15
Diplomys labilis
Armored Rat 16
Hoplomys gymnurus
Tome's Spiny Rat 17
Proechimys semispinosus
Central American Dwarf Squirrel 18
Microsciurus alfari
Western Dwarf Squirrel 19
Microsciurus mimulus
Variegated Squirrel 20
Sciurus variegatoides
Bangs's Mountain Squirrel 21
Syntheosciurus brochus
Panamanian Spiny Pocket Mouse
Heteromys adspersus
Southern Spiny Pocket Mouse 22
Heteromys australis
Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse 23
Heteromys desmarestianus
Tweedy's crab-eating rat
Ichthyomys tweedii
Mount Pirri climbing mouse
Rhipidomys latimanus
Tapeti 24
Sylvilagus brasiliensis
Dice's Cottontail
Sylvilagus dicei
Eastern Cottontail 25
Sylvilagus floridanus

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