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JADIN
EXPEDITIONS
Robert
Jadin's Herpetology Journal
Bolivia (Winter
2004)
This trip to Bolivia was fantastic.
I was in Bolivia from December 20th to January 15th and loved it. Easily the most beautiful place I have ever been to. I went to Bolivia with Dr. Michael Harvey, an incredible herpetologist who has spent much of his career studying and describing new species in Bolivia. Dr. Harvey and I were going to survey in the cloud forest and collect for the Colección Boliviana de Fauna in La Paz. Assisting Dr. Harvey and I were two Bolivian herpetologists, Alvaro Aguilar and Mauricio Ocampo. The four of us collected together in the cloud rainforest for the first week together. Then on about day eight, Dr. Harvey had to leave to do some museum work in La Paz and Santa Cruz, so Alvaro and I stayed in the field and continued our way down into the lowlands.
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Neusticurus ocellatus |
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| Hyalinobatrachium bergeri - Glass frog in family Centrolenidae |
Adenomera sp. 1 |
Adenomera sp. 2 |
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| Oxyrhopus rhombifer? |
Tropidurus melanopleurus |
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| Bolivian Butterfly |
Dr. Michael Harvey |
Leptodactylus rhodonotus |
Bufo granulosus |
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| Hyla nana |
Hyla punctata |
Leptodeira annulata |
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| Mussurana (Clelia
clelia) |
Pseustes sp. ? |
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| Epipedobates pictus |
Physalaemus c.f. albonotatus |
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Making it to lower elevation, Alvaro and I went to a town called Rurrenabaque, which lies right on the Beni river. Rurrenabaque is a tourist town and it was nice to meet people that spoke English again. Since the Beni river was continuously rising there was no way for us to go up river and collect more specimens for the museum. So Alvaro and I decided to go on a tour of the pampas, which to me is like the Everglades of Bolivia. It is a beautiful wetland with tons of birds, mangroves, and mosquitos, just like being back in the Everglades. We spent the new year right on the water and got to see Amazonian river dolphins, hoatzins, macaws, howler monkeys, toucans, caiman, and tons of other amazing animals.
I would like to thank Alvaro Aguilar for being my
guide, interpreter, and friend through several weeks in Bolivia.
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| Jabiru Stork |
Yacare Caiman |
Bolivian Pampas (Aquatic
Grassland) |
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| Bolivian Moth in family Saturnidae |
Bufo veraguensis |
Hyla armata |
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| Eleutherodactylus platydactylus |
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The logging truck I took on the ride back to La Paz |
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