by Rowland | Feb 25, 2014 | Indigo Expeditions, Notes from the field
A velvet worm. Perched half a meter off the ground on a broad leaf. It was there waiting in ambush for its prey. They are predators of small invertebrates using a tube structure near the front of it head to squirt a sticky slime residue to trap their prey. You would...
by Rowland | Feb 15, 2014 | Indigo Expeditions, Notes from the field
2013, wow, what a year! In December, Project Chicchan finished its third month of surveying in 2013. During the course of the month we recorded over 40 species of reptiles and amphibians. Some of these were new for Project Chicchan, such as the half coral snake...
by Rowland | Jan 26, 2014 | Guatemala, Reviews
Essential as field guides can be, by necessity they tend to be a bit lacking in background information in the wider sense. Once you have successfully identified your animal using dichotomous keys, scale counts and other anatomical features and characteristics you may...
by Rowland | Jan 3, 2014 | Indigo Archives, Indigo Expeditions, Notes from the field
Baby boas booming On the 2nd December 2013, in the opening days of our first ever winter expedition to Laguna del Tigre, a boa constrictor was found at the bottom of the stairs leading to the volunteer dorms at Las Guacamayas. It was about the same length as the two...
by Rowland | Dec 7, 2013 | Guatemala, Indigo Archives, Laguna del Tigre, Notes from the field
Scaphiodontophis annulatus found on Indigo Expedition. One week into the first December 2013 expedition and surveys are going well. We didn’t know how it would go this time of year, but we certainly didn’t expect this half coral snake Scaphiodontophis...
