This Costa Rican white-headed capuchin monkey female wasn’t very happy when she saw a telephoto lens pointing at her but instead of aggressively trying to scare me she opted for leaving the scene. This was the bet shot of that encounter where the baby face is visible. Isn’t the baby cute? White-headed capuchin (Cebus capucinus) are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae. The range of capuchin monkeys includes Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. In Central America, they usually occupy the wet lowland forests on Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, The fur is mainly brown, with a dark bushy tail, yellow chest and white patch between the eyes,. They live in burrows in colonies of up to twenty individuals with a single dominant male. They are diurnal and feed on plant material, insects, and bird eggs. They hibernate for approximately eight months starting in September and lasting through the winter.
