Andy Murch / Scoophead shark (Sphyrna media), released specimen. Isla Chepillo, Rio Bayano, Panama.

Edwin Giesbers / Reticulated glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium valerioi) captive, occurs in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama

MYN / JP Lawrence / Strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio) Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / JP Lawrence / Lovely poison frog (Phyllobates lugubris) male with a tadpole, Isla Colon, Panama, June. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / JP Lawrence / Flag-footed bug (Anisocelis flavolineata) Gamboa, Panama Meetyourneighbours.net project

Juan Carlos Munoz / Cargo ship passing through the Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America. July 2012. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Container ship passing through the Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama, Central America. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Juan Carlos Munoz,Juan Carlos Munoz / Starfish Beach, with many starfish in the shallow sea (Asteroidea) Colon Island, Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama,

Roland Seitre / Green Thorntail Hummingbird (Discosura conversii) in flight. Rancho Naturalista, Turrialba, Panama.

Miles Barton / Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus ziteki) Panama, Featured in BBC NHU series 'Life in Cold Blood'. Species now extinct in the wild

Miles Barton / Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus ziteki) reacting to the image of a frog on a video monitor. Experiment carried out to reveal the purpose of the frog's waving behaviour - to attract mates and deter ri...

Piper Mackay / Container freighter travelling through the Panama canal, Panama, November 2008

Michael Pitts / Common Iguana {Iguana iguana} clinging to floating tree branch, Eastern Seaboard of Panama

Michael D. Kern / Zoo Atlanta / White spotted glass frog {Cochranella albomaculata} portrait, captive, occurs Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama. Please credit Michael Kern / Zoo Atlanta.

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of island with Coconut palm trees, San Blas Islands, Caribbean coast, Panama 2006

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of cruise ship, M/V Crystal Symphony, passing through the Panama canal, heading towards Mira Flores Locks, Panama 2005 2006

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of coastal island covered with coconut palms, San Blas islands, Panama, Caribbean Sea

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of island with coconut palms, San Blas, Panama, Caribbean Sea

Rod Williams / Colombian black spider monkey, vulnerable species native to Colombia & Panama

Dietmar Nill / Fringe lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus} feeding on frog in cave, Panama

Neil Lucas / Euglossine bee {Euglossinae} at orchid in rainforest, Panama. Bee pollinates flower.

Dietmar Nill / Fringe lipped bat (Trachiops cirrhosus) taking lizard, Panama

Dietmar Nill / Jamaican fruit eating bat. Panama.

Mark Payne-Gill / Margay yawning. Panama, Gamboa, wild but semi-tame.

Mark Payne-Gill / Margay (Felis wiedi) Panama Gamboa wild but semi-tame. feb 1994

Neil Lucas / Chestnut mandibled toucan, Panama, Central America

Thomas Marent / Banana Spider (Nephila clavipes) female and smaller male, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum) portrait, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) colony forming a bridge by climbing over each other, some are carrying food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-throated Round-eared Bat (Tonatia silvicola) eating a Fig, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) three males sitting on a stem, Soberania National Park, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Plantation Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium?lymbiphyllum) is nearly transparent including the bones, only digestive tract is visible, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying section of dismembered prey back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) hummingbird male feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Kinkajou (Potos flavus) feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Kinkajou (Potos flavus) feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii) feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) hanging from branch, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Spear-nosed Bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Woolly Opossum (Caluromys philander) feeding on Balsa Tree (Ochroma lagopus) flower nectar at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio) individuals showing color variations, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma sp) pair and mimicking plant bug nymph, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Saturniid Moth (Periphoba arcaei) caterpillar with false head, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis) eating egg clutch of Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) some tadpoles escaping through early hatching, Soberania National Park, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus) fishing at night,Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus) fishing at night, Barro Colorado Island, Panama