Haito, Sean 2008 Journal El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) March 24... with lots of big trees. Above about 1700m the forest changed to a "mesophyllic montane" forest, or what looked like cloud forest to me. We started to see small bromeliads on the trees and moss, and it began to rain. We continued uphill to ~2200m and then descended to the camp at ~2000m. cl opened a single bromeliad on a dead branch of a log and found a small Bolitoglossa franklini microglossa which was black with yellow/orange spots on its back which formed 2 wavy stripes. We arrived at the camp just before dark, so it took us about 3 hrs with a 30min break in the middle. ca. 2.5km from camp After dinner, we went along streams near the station looking for frogs for Antonio's project. We (Juan Carlos) and cl went downstream from the camp and started finding frogs as soon as we got into the forest vegetation. We searched from 20:30-22:30 and found about 15 Plathelysax spixii, 1 Plathelysax euthysinota and a female Eleutherodactylus nauticus, all of which were on vegetation except for 1 Plathelysax. We could hear lots more frogs calling, and Juan Carlos saw a water rat ("una rata de agua") that jumped into the stream. The vegetation was wet since it had rained, but overall it seemed dry underneath over objects and in the leaf litter, and we saw no more salamanders. The night was cloudy and rather cool with some wind.