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Zweifel
Aug 23, 1950
We talked to Mr. Foreyth, a hoof and mouth disease men who is camped at
Pina Blanca, and he gave us elaborate
instructions for finding the spot where
the Rana tarahumarae occurs.
We found the canyon without too
much trouble, and found the frogs.
I then spotted the first two adults
crouched together in a niche one
reticulo rock well 3 1/2 feet above a pool
about 2' deep and 8' wide. Other adults
were found in the following situations:
two in the bottom of a pool 3' deep and
12' wide; one on a rock shelf just
covered by water beside a pool; one
in the sandy shore of a pool; one in
a hole in the conglomerate deep enough
to hide the whole body and 2 feet
above the waters.
The canyon is quite narrow and rock
walled. The pools in which the frogs
occur are connected by underground flow,
although there is surface flow where
bedrock crops up and in a few other
places. Cottonwoods, willows, oak
and junipers are present in the canyon
bottom.
Tadpoles were common in most of
the pools within the half mile or so of