Dr. Orr, the Emeritus professor teaching the Summer session for Vertebrate Zoology, shows the class the latest salamander catch.

Andrey is Romilio’s son (Romilio is one of the cooks at Palo Verde).  Besides helping me with Spanish since he didn’t speak English and providing excellent company, Andrey assisted in photographing plants one day and traveled with Boa, Aaron and I to Bocana.  He and I were the only two who braved the lagoon after we arrived and saw a large crocodile swimming about.  In the last picture (bottom right), if you look close, you can see it, but I didn’t use any zoom, and it’s a very cryptic animal….

We seined for fish in the Cuyahoga River last week during a Vertebrate Zoology field trip.  Although out catch wasn’t a speciose or large as previous trips, it was good to be in the flowing, cool water.

This weekend, Pat, Allison and I participated in the Kayak/Canoe, Run and Bike triathlon set up, in part, by Kent Parks and Recreation.  Although we never determined what out time was, the event was exciting and fun.  Pat and Allison canoed the white water route (3.5 mi), then Allison ran (2.5 mi), and I finished with the bike (10 mi).   Daren was also there in his potato of a kayak.

Most of my herp pictures weren’t taken in the field proper.  The animals were brought back to the lab, placed near the lab and photographed in an environment that was a bit more comfortable and tolerable for the photographer.  In addition to photographing the individuals, measurements such as length and weight were taken in a quick and dirty effort to provide some longer-term monitoring of these species.  Below, Mahmood (left) and Vinny (right – a fellow IRES student that arrived 1 July… the day I took to recover from my birthday) photograph a Micrurus.