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auto, Dean
2008
Journal
Campamento El Friunfo, Reserva de la Biosfera El Friunfo,
Chiapas, Mexico.
March 25 We woke up around 8 and left camp around 09:30, heading
downhill on the same trail we came up on yesterday. Bromeliads
were abundant near camp, but the reachable ones were quite
small and we had no luck. We then got separated from Ted
and Juan Carlos, who headed up the trail to Cerr El Friunfo.
Juan Carlos collected a completely black Botryoglossa franklini
migiflavescens under a log (15.39'052"N, 92.49'39"W, 220m elev.),
and saw a Corrophila godmani and a Dyacopsis. I
climbed a medium-sized tree and got 3 big Bromeliads about
0.5km on the path from the station (15.64'920"N, 92.80815"W
[WGS84, 25m acc.], 2048m elev.). One of these, which was exposed
to the sun on a dead branch, had an adult B. franklini
migiflavescens in it. We walked downhill further into an area
where the only Bromeliads were very high up in the trees.
We continued downhill to an old landslide bear, and I
clut down a big bromeliad on a branch overhanging a near
vertical slope. After retrieving it, we shook out an adult
Pseudobroma xalocae, which looked indistinguishable from
D. bromeliacus to me (15.66535"N, 92.80337"W [WGS84,
19m acc.], 2058m elev.). This was about 2km down the path from
camp. We kept going for about a km more and then turned
back. We saw a hooved guan (el pavo) along the path,
plus a lot of small birds. I got a few bromeliads off the
ground on a steep slope, one of which had 2 juvenile D. xalocae.