James Adams
A large, male Tayra (Eira barbara) pauses to do something cheeky along our loop trail. For those of you who aren’t familiar, these guys are the neo-tropical equivalent of a fisher, or small wolverine (they’re 15 pound weasels basically). Tayras are the only species in their genus, and are omnivorous, terrestrial, arboreal, and pound for pound one of the most bad-to-the-bone mammals in the rain forest. As they’re always on the move, it’s rare to get one sitting still, much less smack in front of a camera trap, so I’m thrilled! Other, blurrier images from this same camera showed smaller, presumably female or juvenile Tayras, so I’m looking forward to some better images once I get this camera’s direction tweaked just right…. The Lodge at Pico Bonito, Honduras.
