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Grecia: The Costa Rican Toucan with the prosthetic beak

L. Arias - August 11, 2016

Grecia is now on public display for visitors of ZooAve animal shelter in La Garita, Alajuela. The famous toucan may soon have a partner.

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Disfigured Costa Rican toucan stars in Discovery documentary

L. Arias - July 21, 2016

A new Discovery Networks documentary tells the story of the Costa Rican toucan whose savagely mutilated beak was replaced with a prosthetic one, and how it inspired a nation to push for better treatment of animals.

Environment and Wildlife

Toucan gets 3D-printed beak after gruesome injury

The Tico Times - January 13, 2016

One year after a “barbarous" attack left a Costa Rican toucan without most of its upper beak, the bird finally has a new prosthetic one.

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The winners and losers of Costa Rica in 2015

The Tico Times - December 28, 2015

The headline says it all. Find out who we picked this year.

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PHOTOS: March Against Animal Abuse

Alberto Font - May 11, 2015

Thousands of people gathered Sunday in San José for the 7th National March Against Animal Abuse to demand an animal welfare reform law that President Luis Guillermo Solís has long promised to prioritize.

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