Field notes, v1307
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Heese, H. 1990 October 25 Ruhizha, Kabale District, Uganda, 7750 ft. (continued) We arrived here at 2100h, after a 2 hour ride over a tortuous rd from the nearest settlement. This is a field station run by CARE's "Development Through Conservation" program and WWF, supervised by a wife-husband team. Jan Kalina greeted us w/ dinner, and afterwards we found an adult Chameleo sp. (3 horns) 2m above ground at the end of a droopy emergent stem asleep. Jens also found little ones on grass stems hanging out from the road cut fork - are they so positioned to avoid predators, catch the earliest sun, or both? October 26 We had breakfast w/ Jan, met various Ugandan park personnel, and walked around the station. Much cleared country to one side, and uncut mountain forest in other directions. Brief sun and cool and cloudy. Jim found a small Chameleo which like the others tends to leap from the hand and curl up as it lands on the ground. After lunch from 1350-1600h we walked down from headwaters 100m then along a north-running ridge about a km to several old ruined houses. We caught 7 Adofus sp. and saw others: on short rock faces along the road cut, in sunny spot on a narrow side trail, and bask[ing] on an angled board of an old house (photo only). Jens found two communal rest sites on east-