It’s not a barrel-chested gorilla but a fairly normal sized monkey. The mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata). Of Costa Rica’s four species of monkey, the mantled howler monkey is the second ...

The book “Earl’s Big Adventure in Costa Rica,” the first in a series of kids’ surfing books by New Englander Hanna Haidar, profiles the adventures of a young Gringo and his trusty monkey companion as ...