Los animales de Costa Rica

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Every year when I teach my students about Costa Rica we spend time learning about the fascinating animals of Central America. I was reminded of these amazing animals recently when I visited the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC. Costa Rica is home to incredible biodiversity and intriguing animals. Today’s story investigates 8 of these animals and their unique characteristics. This story is in the third person and present tense. Important vocabulary in the story incl...

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0:00.0	Hello, and bienvenitos to this episode of Simple Stories in Spanish.
0:05.7	A quick note before we begin.
0:08.4	During my break, a few things happened, including hitting 2.5 million downloads of my podcast, which is amazing.
0:19.7	I also published episode number 200. In the six years I have been doing
0:26.5	this, I have divided my stories into seasons. But starting now, I am going to forego the seasons
0:34.2	and just start listing my episodes by episode number, starting today with episode
0:41.3	number 201. Thank you for helping me hit this milestone. Every year when I teach my students about
0:52.8	Costa Rica, we spend time learning about the fascinating
0:57.3	animals of Central America. I was reminded of these amazing animals recently when I visited the
1:06.4	Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:19.3	Costa Rica is home to incredible biodiversity and intriguing animals.
1:26.4	Today's story investigates eight of these animals and their unique characteristics.
1:31.8	This story is in the third person and present tense.
1:38.8	Important vocabulary in the story includes perisoso, sloth or lazy,
1:51.0	Mapache, raccoon, lagarto, lizard, casar, to hunt, and depredadores, predators.
1:56.2	I hope you enjoy the animals of Costa Rica.
2:02.1	Costa Rica is a nation incredible.
2:07.6	It's popular for its naturalization and biodiversity.
2:13.8	Costa Rica no is a nation very great.
2:21.3	Solo cubre around of 19,700 miyas
2:22.3	quadrads,
2:23.3	similar to
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