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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.