Seeing road life is always better than seeing roadkill. And let's be honest, catching sight of animals as they cross the road is sometimes the only way to see them, because they blend in so well in the forest. Here are a few of the road crossings I have captured or almost-captured on film.
Below is a coatimundi (coati, for short). Check out its tail (in the second picture). This one is probably a male, since the females and their young travel in groups. They spend a lot of time in trees--the babies are born up in the tree tops, but venture out with supervision after a few weeks.
I thought I had a picture of a baby crocodile on the road for you, but it's so hard to see it's not even worth it. Getting photos out of a moving vehicle is notoriously hard, even when you're not trying to capture a moving animal running for its life. The best subjects are the ones who don't move quickly. Introducing the sloth, the perfect roadside photographic subject:
Sloth, you are just too cute.
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