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blupanther
at Thu Oct 25 21:30:01 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by blupanther ]
Brain fart, I meant teiidae, not agamids. Specifically Cnemidophorus lemniscatus. I saw them repeatedly around some boulders, but they were very flighty and I couldn't get a clear photo.
I did see iguanas as well, both common green and Ctenosaura similis. I also saw lots of brown basilisks.
I got a good photo of the bothrops asper. He was about 3.5 feet long and jumped away from me when I almost stepped on him. Thier camoflage when in leaf litter is amazing.
I think one of the reasons snakes are so hard to find in the tropics(besides the machette weilding locals)is the fact that natural cover is so abundant. The jungle floor is completely covered with rotting logs, boulders with fissures, etc. You don't know where to start. I flipped alot of tin and wood around areas of human habitation, and explored my wife's uncle's farm around the livestock enclosures, but came up empty there too.
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