Field notes, v4226
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Enito, Dear 2008 Journal Campamento El Triunfo, Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico March 26 Jed woke us all up at 6:20AM, very anxious to go find a D. xalocalcae, since he didn't get to see one yesterday in the field. We reluctantly got going by 7:30, after we insisted on having breakfast and coffee in a relaxed manner. We walked down the same trail towards the cars, past the point where we worked yesterday. We opened a couple of bromeliads that I had to climb up to get, but they were few and far between. We tried walking down the path further, but didn't find a better area. We took a trail from the start of the zona nuclear to the NE, but only found 1 bromeliad. Antonio and Juan Carlos continued after the path ended in an attempt to reach the pine forest lower down. I climbed up in a small tree and with a big effort (almost breaking the bromeliad cutter), we got the bromeliad down and found a juvenile D. xalocalcae. We worked our way back slowly, opening the very few bromeliads we found by walking off the path, but we found nothing more. We only opened about 15 good bromeliads up to this point. Jed went off to the ridge NE of the camp and found 3 B. franklinii microflaversons in the 15 bromeliads he opened. Noli, Nora and I walked ~15 min up the Cerro El Triunfo trail and opened about 20 bromeliads, most of which had fallen out of trees already. This area had many good bromeliads, but we found nothing and returned to camp at 16:00. Antonio and Juan Carlos arrived back at camp around 17:30 with 9 D. xalocalcae, including 2 adults, which they had found in the cloud forest - pine forest ecotone. They opened about 10 small bromeliads, which had nothing, and 20 big ones, which had all the salamanders. 15.674772 N 92.79GG1°W [WGS84, 43m acc.] 2011 m elev.