American croc in Costa Rica

JORDAN - Set to embark upon the first ever census of the reptiles in the virgin rainforest region of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, guest speaker Matthew Harris regaled group members with an account of his preliminary explorations of the region.

The Upstate Herpetological Association held its monthly meeting recently at the Jordan-Elbridge Community Center to discuss the crocodile census of Costa Rica.

“It's one of the biological hot spots of the world,” Harris said. “They're still finding species of life there that have never been described before. And no biologists have ever gone in there and studied crocodiles.”