Ravito, Dean 2007 Journal Chilun area, Chispas, Mexico Aug. 9 Nora, Ted and Gustavo decided to go back to Moyatiguan today, to look for Gyptodactylus. Antonio, Carlos and I wanted to go to Cerro Teocalma, a 2500m peak where Antonio and his students had collected B. rastroia in 1994. We woke up very early because: 1) Chilun has more chickens than anywhere else on the planet, which start making noise at 4AM, and 2) the people here don't observe daylight savings time, so it is 1 hour earlier than everywhere else. We took off around 8AM and get a Drymarchon corais on the road to La Nentona. As we get closer to the end of the road, the people became less welcoming. This is one of the biggest Zapatista strongholds, and they are very distrustful of outsiders. When we got to Emiliano Zapata, the town at the end of the road where we wanted to start hiking, we got a frosty welcome. The women told us to ask the men, and 1 of 2 men still in town told us we had to wait for the whole town to talk about it that night, which we had no time for. The other man there pretended he didn't hear us. We left and drove to a second site near Mojoton, where it was the same story. We drove back to meet the others, who also had a frustrating day. Their guide had only been able to take them to one small area of forest, where they cut down ~12 bromeliads and got 1 B. rufescens. (SMR313). Local kids collected 2 B. mexicana and an Odolophis. We met them and searched a little more around the village, where Carlos got 2 B. rufescens. Kids brought in a Ninia, 2 Sphenomorphus and a B. mexicana-like salamander.