Colorful Art and Artist

The coquí - little frog, as it is called in Puerto Rico, has only a minute tail when it is born, and this quickly disappears. Its length ranges between 15mm-80mm and the color of the coquí varies considerably - green, brown and yellowish, sometimes having touches of different colors or two dorsolateral stripes. The genera Eleutherodactylus, which in Greek means free toes. As the name indicates, this genera has no inter digital membrane, which could indicate that they are not adapted to swim. All coquies have disks or pads on the tips of their toes, to help them adhere to surfaces, like moistened leaves. Coquis reproduce year-raound in Puerto Rico, but breeding activity is concentrated in the wet season. This species utilizes internal fertilization and like other eleutherodactylids, the fertilized eggs undergo direct development, rather than passing through a free-living larval (tadpole) stage, which means the parents don’t have to lay their eggs on water, as it happens with other amphibians. The “tadpole” stage occurs entirely within a terrestrial egg, rather than as a free-living larval stage, and adult features form directly, sometimes bypassing the stages normally present in tadpole ontogeny (Hung and Elinson 1996, Hanken et al. 1997). Thus, a tiny but fully functional froglet hatches directly from the egg. Coquis deposit 4-6 clutches of about 28 eggs each (range 16-41) per year, with a development period of 17-26 days. Males guard the eggs to keep them from drying out and remain in the nest for a few days after they emerge. It is a very popular creature throughout the island and enlivens the evenings with its timid ko-kee from which it get its name. The coquies begin to sing when the sun goes down at dusk, singing all night long until dawn. The male coquí sings - not the female. You can find the coquí nearly everywhere, from the margins of the forests where the areas receive large amounts of moisture, in highlands, lowlands, dry and arid places, even in caves depending on the species.

Click the coqui above to see a great example of Puerto Rico art also known as Puerto Rican Art.

Guacamayas Rojas 

Una de las más hermosas aves de América es la guacamaya roja, denominada además Papagayo. Su nombre cientifico es Ara Macao y pertencen a la familia de los Psitacidos.   Se encuentran en las selvas de Guatemala, Belice, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, Isla Trinidad, Perú, algunas partes de Mexico, el norte de Bolivia y la región del Mato Grosso en  Brasil. Extinta en El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua. Tienen un hermoso plumaje de rojo a escrlata y los inferiores de un intenso azul. Son aves monogomas que permancen con su pareja hasta la muerte. Son aves de vuelo alto, que recorren grandes distancias para alimentarse y obtener frutos de amate, palmas, chicozapote, ramón, vainas y flores, brotes tiernos y algunos insectos, los cuales constituyen sus alimentos favoritos y están esparcidos en extensas áreas. Su hábitat son las selvas altas, siempre verdes, junto a grandes ríos tropicales.

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