Konrad Mebert:
Hi ....
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there is still some prestine forest above Santa Fe at beginning at about 700 m elevation.
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we stayed at a small hotel carrying the name of the town.
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in a nicely green set up
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what are you looking and smiling at?
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ok, an insect collector is passing by.
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in the evening hours, heading up to the mountain called Alto de Piedra
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where the premontane forest is still natural
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close-up into the complexity of a premontane forest
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finding a mountain brook, which we will walk along to search for critters
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equipped and ready, Maya and Arcadio
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red leaves on the underside, why?
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many fantastic invertebrates along the stream, such as this millipede of the Polydesmida group ....
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a large spider
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and a blue-noded stick insect
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a portrait of the stick insect
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a nicely rusty-colored rain frog - Craugastor crassidigitus
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Brilliant forest frog
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a Brilliant forest frog (Lithobates warszewitschii)
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Pristimantis museosus
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"Fort Randolph robber frog" (Pristimantis gaigei)
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portrait of Pristimantis gaigei
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and here a nice color pattern detail on its hind legs (Pristimantis gaigei)
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an anole lizard (Norops lionotus) that lives near streams
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a helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus) from this angle, he appears as having bumped into a wall
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Coryptophanes cristatus
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Corytophanes cristatus
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helmeted iguana
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this silhouette is quite impressive, unlike lizards we usu ally know, a helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus)
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the helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus) greets us a fare well
