Hispaniolan Common Tree Frog (Osteopilus dominicensis)
A tree frog with a bony helmet Late on a December night in the Dominican Republic, the garden was full of calling frogs. One voice …
Hispaniolan Common Tree Frog (Osteopilus dominicensis)
The same song, a different singer A few days before New Year, the garden in the Dominican Republic was singing again. The same loud, repeated …
Black Witch (Ascalapha odorata)
The moth of many legends One night in late December, the Dominican Republic, a light on the veranda was doing its usual work, and it …
Pantropical Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda venatoria)
The guest who eats the cockroaches Late one December night in the Dominican Republic, something large and flat was sitting on the wall of the …
Callimantis antillarum
A twig of the Antilles In the Dominican Republic in late December, I was checking a hedge branch by branch when a part of the …
Hispaniolan Common Tree Frog (Osteopilus dominicensis)
Three frogs, one loud night The same wet December night in the Dominican Republic that produced two tree frogs produced a third, this one clinging …
Epaphrodita
The lichen tricksters of the Caribbean Late in December in the Dominican Republic, I spent an afternoon doing a strange thing: staring at bark. Not …
Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)
A toad with a bad reputation On a December evening in the Dominican Republic, a flashlight beam caught a shape squatting in the middle of …
Hispaniolan Common Tree Frog (Osteopilus dominicensis)
A chorus in the rain barrel The same December night in the Dominican Republic gave up a second tree frog, this one perched on the …
Common Stout Anole (Anolis hispaniolae)
A lizard that argues with its throat On a December afternoon in the Dominican Republic, a stocky little lizard was holding court on a low …
Hispaniolan Tiger Mimic-Queen (Lycorea halia cleobaea)
A butterfly that borrows another’s warning In late December in the Dominican Republic, a large butterfly came gliding across the garden with the slow, confident …
Yellow Split-Toed Frog (Eleutherodactylus flavescens)
A frog that skips the pond After an evening rain in the Dominican Republic, the leaf litter at the base of a hedge was full …