MonarchzMan
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Hello all,
I'm going to be in Panama for the summer this year working on my thesis project on poison dart frogs, and among my personal goals is to find and photograph Bolitoglossa salamanders. I've been hoping to find them the last several trips, but haven't found any yet.
My biggest issue is that I don't know the habitat for these salamanders. My guess is that they occur in higher elevation areas where it is cooler. I know that my professor has found them in bromeliad axials. While most of my thesis work is going to be in the caribbean lowlands, I will be getting into the cloud forest for a week or so, and if I can, I'd really like to search for some of them.
So that's all I have as far as finding Bolitoglossa: high elevation and bromeliads. That seems pretty broad to find these salamanders. Does anyone have any clues to help ensure my finding them on this trip? Thanks!
I'm going to be in Panama for the summer this year working on my thesis project on poison dart frogs, and among my personal goals is to find and photograph Bolitoglossa salamanders. I've been hoping to find them the last several trips, but haven't found any yet.
My biggest issue is that I don't know the habitat for these salamanders. My guess is that they occur in higher elevation areas where it is cooler. I know that my professor has found them in bromeliad axials. While most of my thesis work is going to be in the caribbean lowlands, I will be getting into the cloud forest for a week or so, and if I can, I'd really like to search for some of them.
So that's all I have as far as finding Bolitoglossa: high elevation and bromeliads. That seems pretty broad to find these salamanders. Does anyone have any clues to help ensure my finding them on this trip? Thanks!