Field notes, v4225
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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.