Kickass Costa Rican Wildlife: Gorilla Bugs

Tucked away in the Eastern cusp of Costa Rica's central valley, is the only known habitat of the rare and beautiful Costa Rican Gorilla Bug. Local legend says they were created on a windy night when a thunderstorm fought for attention in the sky with the full moon, and they sprouted up from a sugarcane field the next morning. Who knows? What science does know is that they always come in pairs, they are some kind of mammal, and they have a strange psionic attack that enslaves whatever household they are living in.

And yes, Dr. Girlfriend and I happen to be the lucky residents of said household, but it's not a bad deal. As it turns out, their inability to move around really works in our favor for now. But upon doing a little research I found out that he's little critters are actually only in their larval stage right now. And one day, they eventually grow into beautiful Tica / Gringo hybrids that will be able to rob men of their hearts with either a smile or a quick flick of the katana. It's amazing thinking of that, because in this stage when they're only little Gorilla Bugs, all they pretty much do is cry, fart, eat, and engage in low impact biological warfare.

I guess what ranks them amongst the more kick ass wildlife is the fact that their cheeks are really kissable and they can perform an amazing array of sounds that try as I may, I cannot duplicate. They also smell really nice ( when not committing the aforementioned low-impact biological warfare). And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!

In all truth, I am reeling from an incident Tuesday night where my son and I were gleefully eating peanuts together and I somehow managed to rip off an old filling and half of my molar along with it. I can't have anything done about it, because of work, until Saturday. So senor dentista  gave me a prescription for what is apparently the Costa Rican version of pure morphine until then. So I would just count on my posts for the week being just a little bit on the daffy side...