Capuchin Monkey
Cebus imitator · Guanacaste · Santa Rosa, Costa Rica
The most reliable place to see the capuchin monkey in Costa Rica is Guanacaste’s dry forest — Santa Rosa and Palo Verde — and the Pacific parks, best Year-round. Habituated troops in the dry-forest parks make this one of the most reliable mammals to photograph, without baiting — the work is behaviour and light, not finding them.
Photographing the capuchin monkey
Fast primates in dappled forest light: a 100–400mm zoom, a high shutter for movement, and never feed or bait them.
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Monthly sighting chance across the year · peak in March.
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