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DA Good
1986
Journal
Recently Tapanti reserve, unt.
23 May
While Kiisa worked today on her frog brains, I took
the 3 newcomers up & into the park + introduced them
to it, as well as to the park guards. We drove slowly
up the road, pointing out the streams on my map, & to
the Dos Amigos bridge, where we turned up the road to
the ICE tunnel. We spent some time exploring the tunnel
and catching frogs (a Rana vilriana) and toadlets (probably
Dyala pseudopuma + Rana?) near the entrance. We then
drove up almost to the ICE dam + turned around. On
the way back we stopped just above the Dos Amigos
bridge + opened ca. 10 bromeliads - found 2 small (Dyala
in one of them - don't seem to lay out easily. Also found
another Rana vilriana along the road.
We then dropped Tom off at the cabin and Dave, Andres,
and I went into Cartago to get gas and some Tico borts
for them. Back to the cabin in late afternoon.
At night Tom, Andres and Dave went out for frogs list
found only 2 Dyala pseudopuma + 1 Niceops tripedelops.
Weather overcast, spitting now + again in late morning,
raining heavily in late afternoon + into evening. - seems
to be having some effect on the frogs sense (Dyala pseudopuma
to becoming more + more common + we saw 2 Rana vilriana
today, which we had seen more of before.
24 May Morning spent preserving specimens - I took tissues
+ Catfish tode plastos & the preserving was shared between
us. This took us until noon. Meanwhile, the morning