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Rodriguez, Sean
2007
Journal
May 4 Finca Planada de Maragott, Sierra de las Minas, Pico Jacagua, Guatemala (cat)
Rodriguez told us that lots of animals are still seen in these mountains,
including jaguars, guenas, coatls, tamanduas, quetzales, and even perhaps
giant anteaters, which he has not seen but other people say they have.
Further up the trail we caught 7 more Bothrophase in bromeliads
and 1 leptodera, which may have been in a bromeliad. We opened
a ton of bromeliads (probably >100 all day), including some
from huge old trees. We worked up to a height of 1684m and
searched until 14:42. We walked back to the finca and started
down after having coffee with Don Julio. On the way
down, we stopped to cut down a few bromeliads in an area of
cloud forest with pine trees and Carlos and Austino got
a small C. sordaminensis. We kept going and opened the few
bromeliads in the lower pine forest that we could reach, but
found nothing. In the town of Esquipulas, we started seeing
toads on the road. We collected 2 Bufo wallacei, 1 B. marinus
(and saw a few more), and 1 B. lunetboni, which is a beautiful
green-yellow color. It was late by the time we finished
eating dinner, so we didn't tissue anything. We had an
extremely productive and successful trip - this was the
main reason we came to Guatemala in the dry season.