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D.A. Good
1987
Journal
Ublein (Cacao) Proy. Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Nototriton (probably) eggs (in moss on vertical trunk ca. 3½ feet
off ground. Moss temp 17.4°C, air 17.1°C). These eggs are much less
developed than the previous set had been, but from within 10m of
it.
Back to Casa Mergo mid-afternoon + spent the rest of the day
cleaning up, etc.
31 August Did nothing except catalogue a few specimens + write field
notes during daylight hours today (our enthusiasm for working
here is definitely decreasing - the fact that we're leaving in a
couple of days probably has a lot to do with it). Did some
laundry. At dusk we headed up to the Centridella stream
past the summit of the trail to Casa Frankin Lopez's
finding some more Centridella. On the way up the trail
we collected an Echis barbouri or vegetation and a Bothrops
schlegelii. The Bothrops was hanging upside down along a
sapling beside a large fallen log - very cryptic. It was
positioned in strike position with its head a few inches above
the ground obviously waiting for something to come running
along the edge of the bog. I have never seen a place with
more poisonous snakes - Bothrops (lateralis + schlegelii) taken
together equal 2× the number of all other snake species
combined!
The only specimens collected along the stream were 2 Centridella
prosilepon calling from vegetation on a dirt/sand bank ca. 12 ft
above the stream. I managed to climb up high enough to get one
using a sapling growing out of the bank. On climbing back