Other animals in the Zoo's collection include Giant Anteaters, Spectacled Bears, Collared Peccaries and Przewalski's Horses.

Fry's interest in the bears led to the follow-up documentary, Stephen Fry and the Spectacled Bears, and he also wrote and published his experiences in Rescuing the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian Diary.

The BBC documentary " Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest " looks at some of the bear research being done in Peru and Ecuador and what the researchers are discovering.

* Bear Grottos-Old home of Brown Bears, Sloth Bears, Spectacled Bears, and Polar Bears.

* Spectacled Bears ( erroneously identified as " Spectacle Bears ")

In Panama, the Green iguana has been observed sharing nest sites with American crocodiles and in Honduras with Spectacled Caimans.

Exhibits in and around the Bird House include " Crane Line " ( home to Stanley, Whooping and Wattled Cranes ), a large, outdoor flight cage housing Mandarin Ducks, Wood Ducks, Indian Peafowl, Double-crested Cormorants, Hooded Merganser and several others, the " South American Run " ( which includes large South American birds such as King Vultures, Roseate Spoonbills and Scarlet Ibis ), and outdoor exhibits for Greater Rhea, Spectacled Owls, Barred Owls, Flamingos, Blue-billed Curassow, Double-wattled Cassowary and many others.

Spectacled bears are one of the half of extant bear species that are habitually arboreal, alongside the American and Asian black bears and the sun bears.

The White-fronted Amazon ( Amazona albifrons ) also known as the White-fronted Parrot, or adopted slang term Spectacled Amazon Parrot is a Central American species of parrot.

Two crocodilians, the widespread Spectacled Caiman and the large, sometimes dangerous American Crocodile are found in Costa Rica.

The park's rivers and lagoons are home to populations of both the American crocodile and Spectacled Caiman, along with Bull sharks.

Other animals in the park include Central American Squirrel Monkeys, mantled howler monkeys, both two-toed and three-toed sloths, agoutis, giant anteaters, Great Curassows, black hawks, Spectacled Owls, hummingbirds, 220 species of butterflies, golden orb spiders ( who build huge webs ), otters and raccoons.

Species Seen: Bananaquit, Palm Tanager, Blue-gray Tanager, Spectacled Thrush, Ruddy Ground Dove, Yellow Oriole, Least Grebe, Southern Lapwing, White-winged Swallow, Pied Water-tyrant, Golden-headed Manakin, Bay-headed Tanager, White-bearded Manakin, Laughing Gull, Royal Tern, Large-billed Tern, Cattle Egret, Black Skimmer, Common Potoo, Scarlet Ibis, White-necked Jacobin, Tufted Coquette, Oilbird, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Tropical Kingbird, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Rufous-vented Chachalaca and Red-billed Tropicbird.

Due to their greater numbers and faster reproductive abilities, the Spectacled populations are locally outcompeting Black caimans, although the larger species dominates in a one-on-one basis.

Great Frigatebirds will also hunt seabird chicks at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of Sooty Terns, Spectacled Terns, Brown Noddies and Black Noddies.

The Spectacled Eider ( Somateria fischeri ) is a large sea duck that breeds on the coasts of Alaska and northeastern Siberia.

These forest-types, which includes the Yungas and parts of the Chocó, are very rich in flora and fauna, although few large mammals exists, exceptions being the threatened Mountain Tapir, Spectacled Bear and Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey.

Two Bering Sea species, the Steller's Sea Cow ( Hydrodamalis gigas ) and Spectacled Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax perspicillatus ), are extinct because of overexploitation by man.

Threatened species which are found in the park include the Golden-shouldered Parrot, Star Finch, Red Goshawk, Lakeland Downs Mouse and the Spectacled Hare-wallaby.

Spectacled lizards are related to the Teiidae, but they look like skinks ( slightly more distant relatives ) with smooth scales.

On Easter Island, this species and the Spectacled Tern ( O. lunatus ) are collectively known as manutara.

Spectacled Warblers are brown above and buff below, with chestnut wing patches and a white throat.

The Spectacled Spiderhunter is the heaviest of the sunbirds, weighing as much as 49 g. The bills of the spiderhunters are long, at least twice the length of the head, and are decurved and stout.

The Mexican Parrotlet, Spectacled Parrotlet, and Yellow-faced Parrotlet are also fairly common pets.

Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae.

Although Spectacled bears are solitary and tend to isolate themselves from one another to avoid competition, they are non-territorial.

Spectacled bears are more herbivorous than most other bears ; normally about 5 to 7 % of their diet is meat.

Spectacled caiman are present further up river and within Laguna Corcovado in larger numbers.

In the documentary Paddington Bear: The Early Years, British actor Stephen Fry encounters a Spectacled bear called Yogi, who was kept in a small cage by Andean villagers ( see also Paddington Bear ).

The Bronze-winged Duck ( Speculanas specularis ) also known as the Spectacled Duck, is a dabbling duck and the sole member of its genus Speculanas.

Some animals commonly found in páramo ecosystems include the Andean Fox ( also referred to as the “ Páramo Wolf ”, the White-Tailed Deer, and the Spectacled Bear which occasionally forages in the high páramo for its favorite snack, Puya bromeliads.

The other cobra of Asia is known as Asian, Indian or Spectacled cobra due to the eyeglass-shaped pattern on its skin.

The Spectacled Porpoise was first described by Lahille in 1912 from a specimen found on a beach near Buenos Aires.

The Spectacled porpoise is listed on appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals ( CMS ).

* Convention on Migratory Species page on the Spectacled porpoise

The Spectacled Bear is the only bear native to South America and is technically the largest land carnivore on that continent, although as little as 5 % of its diet is compromised by meat.

The Spectacled Petrel, Procellaria conspicillata, is a rare seabird that nests only on the high western plateau of Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha group.

The Spectacled Petrel is listed on CMS Appendix II and ACAP Annex 1.

The Spectacled Spiderhunter is the largest species of sunbirdThe family ranges in size from the 5-gram Black-bellied Sunbird to the Spectacled Spiderhunter, at about 45 grams.

The status of the enigmatic Spectacled Flowerpecker is unknown.

The Spectacled Porpoise ( Phocoena dioptrica ) is a rarely seen member of the porpoise family.

The Spectacled Porpoise is a robust creature with a small head and no beak.

The Spectacled Porpoise is believed to be circumpolar in cool sub-Antarctic and low Antarctic waters.

Bachia is a genus of lizards that belong to the Spectacled lizards family.

This species is unlikely to be confused with any tern apart from the similarly dark-backed Sooty Tern and the Spectacled Tern from the Tropical Pacific.

The Spectacled Warbler ( Sylvia conspicillata ) is a species in the typical warbler genus Sylvia.

Like their relatives, the Spectacled Warbler is insectivorous.

The Spectacled Spiderhunter is the largest species of sunbird

The Spectacled Eider is slightly smaller than the Common Eider at 52 – 57 cm in length.

The Spectacled Eider is listed in the US as a Federally Threatened species and is unhuntable.

The Spectacled bear is a mid-sized species of bear.