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When working in the field one must sometimes be creative. During our research in Nicaragua (2011) on Bolitoglossa insularis we needed to device a method to establish the home range of these small, lungless salamanders. – Leer más.
When a marine turtle is incidentally by-caught by a longliner, fishermen try to cut the line — without hauling it on board — and release the turtle into the sea. However, a research published in the journalMarine Ecology Progress Series alerts that about 40% of post-released turtles die some months later due to the impact of longline fishing. Leer más.
Quick—when you think of an agitated anole, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps a quick color change, maybe even some squeaking and biting and, of course, a couple flashes of the dewlap all may have been high on the list. Well, not to be outdone by its cousins from the new world, the Middle-eastern yellow-spotted Agama (Trapelus flavimaculatus) has come up with a spectacular display that involves all three behaviors listed above. Leer más.
Earlier this year, I lamented not having any cameras when I witnessed the most epic fight in 5 months of Sitana fieldwork. As luck would have it, I saw an equally impressive fight on the last day of my sixth month of Sitana observation, and this time I had a video camera! Leer más.