Central America | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants

Squirrel monkeys eating fruit while sitting on a tree branch in a jungle

Map of the world with Central America highlighted.

A giraffe dines on some thorny acacia leaves in Africa

Agave

Agouti sniffs the grass

American kestrel

American Kestrel

Amazonian leafcutter ants

Armadillo on the prairie

Red Panda eating bamboo.

Little green sunbird on banana flower

Flying fox

Native California bee

Shining Leaf Chafer Beetle

Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia Cyane) feeding on Blue Porterweed with purple flowers.

Blue Porterweed

Emerald tree boa

Bonsai maple at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Butterfly sitting on a bright pink bromeliad flower

Burrowing owl popped out of its burrow.

Monarch butterfly resting on green leaf

Butterfly, Moth, and Skipper

Cacao pods growing on a tree.

Cochal cactus

Caecilian slithering along dirt ground

Group of Capybara on a river bank in Pantanal Brazil

Yellow-rumped warbler with a bee in its beak sitting on a cattail in B.C. Canada

Orange discus fish cichlid

A Chinese dwarf crocodile floating half-submerged in water

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Male

Dragonfly and Damselfly

Pitaya fruit growing on plants

Dragonfruit (Pitahaya, Pitaya)

Dudleya

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel

A multi-colored close shot of an epiphyllum.

Medusa's Head Euphorbia

Many figs are shown hanging on a ficus tree.

four flamingos stretch their necks up to the sky

Red-legged kassina frog

A group of pink and white fuchsia flowers.

A baby giant anteater rides on its mother's back

the pink and white flowers of a shell ginger

Costa Rican hummingbird

Jacana walking on a lily pad.

A jaguar peers out from under a tree branch

A kingfisher preening its extended wing

California kingsnake

Kinkajou climbing down leaves, sticking its tongue out.

Ladybug crawling down a blade of grass

Green-headed tree agama lizard

Hyacinth Macaws

Maidenhair fern growing from a wet, rocky cliffside.

Maidenhair Fern

Kangaroo joey peeks out of its mother's much as mother lounges on grass

Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from milkweed flowers.

A monarch butterfly rests on a pink flower and spreads its wings.

Monarch Butterfly

Closeup of a white-headed langur holding onto a branch while it holds a green leaf in its mouth

mountain lion licking lips

Mountain Lion (Puma, Cougar)

Acorns growing on an oak tree

Closeup of an ocelot's face as it looks right

A hawk perches on an ocotillo in the desert.

Opposum walking on green grass that is covered with fallen Autumn leaves.

The white flower on an orchid.

Hong Kong orchid tree blooms

Great horned owl in flight.

Close up of a fan palm frond.

African grey parrot

The open bloom of a purple and white Passion Vine.

A pair of peccaries.

Great White pelican

Pink trumpet tree blooms.

Pink Trumpet Tree

Yellow plumeria blooms

Plumeria (Frangipani)

Yellow-banded poison frog

Ponytail palm trees

porcupine

Prickly pear cactus with salmon-colored blooms

Prickly Pear Cactus

Pumpkin growing from its vine.

Raccoon wading into water

Red-tailed hawk landing

Red-tailed Hawk

A woodpecker peeks out from a hole it has made in a large saguaro cactus.

Fire salamander

Salamander and Newt

Scorpion in the Spanish desert

oncilla

Yellow bush viper

orb weaver spider

Peruvian fire stick insect on a leafy branch

Saddlebill stork

A young tamandua gazes at the camera with a wet nose.

Tamandua or Lesser Anteater

South American tapir

Greenbottle blue tarantula

Thick-billed parrot sitting in a plumeria tree

Thick-billed Parrot

Toucan, Costa Rica

Turtle with butterflies, Amazon

Turtle and Tortoise

Two-toed sloth

Tecoma stans blooms

Joshua trees in the Nevada desert.