Spiny-tailed Iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) in Venezuela
Spiny-tailed Iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) in Venezuela
Spiny-tailed Iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) in Venezuela
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164 IGUANA • VOLUME 15, NUMBER 3 • SEPTEMBER 2008 ACKLEY<br />
High elevations, rugged topography, and hundreds of streams produce<br />
myriad waterfalls. Here, the students enjoy some downtime beneath<br />
Trafalgar Falls.<br />
These pillars support the grandstands of W<strong>in</strong>dsor Park Stadium <strong>in</strong> the<br />
capital of Roseau. Although usually host to cricket matches, we took a<br />
very rare night off to experience the national military band and a steel<br />
drum group play<strong>in</strong>g everyth<strong>in</strong>g from hip-hop to Mozart and the theme<br />
from Snow White. Such <strong>in</strong>tensely developed areas are rare on<br />
Dom<strong>in</strong>ica, and are largely limited to the very centers of Roseau and<br />
the larger villages on the island.<br />
Ruthie Carter studied microhabitat associations of frogs. Because we shared a need to cover much of the island, she became my travel partner.<br />
While search<strong>in</strong>g for Eleutherodactylus ampl<strong>in</strong>ympha on Morne Macaque a kilometer above the ocean, she looks out over what would have been<br />
Freshwater Lake had the cloud forest not been, well, cloudy.
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