Passing The Baton

Tom and Jonathan leaving Cay # 1 and having a deep conversation, although in very shallow water, on what to do next. In my humble opinion, the past, present, and future of experimental evolutionary ecology.

BLANQUEDA

Day 9: The weather keeps hurting Jonathan's ability to catch lizard. Today he scored a BIG ZERO on three of the islands. By the end of the day his productivity was limited to ONLY FOUR, YES FOUR, lizards. Needless to say we are extremely concerned with the possible repercussions of such a low score. Marta had a similar problem yesterday, when she scored a ZERO "BLANQUEADA" for the day. In other news the X-ray machine is working great and is providing valuable information, including insights on the diet. A few individuals show evidence of what appears to be seeds and small snails as part of their diet.

Curly Tail

Finally we had some decent weather and thus a successful lizard's catching day. Today Jonathan broke another record. He is currently holding the record for catching the smallest lizard; a record not to be proud off. The best moment of the day came due to courtesy of a curly tail that nearly caught an anole that was moving toward the ground on Y5. Clearly, curly tail islands' are very dangerous places for sageri.

Is not DiGiorno!!!!!!

Day 7, Not any exciting news from the field. The weather has been miserable, extremely windy, which is not good for lizard catching. Our leader scored a shutout or as we said back home "una dona" on two of the cays.
Yesterday, we had a pizza night and a solid portion of "tostones" thanks to my cooking skills

Another Day in Paradise

Day 5: Today we had some minor boat problems. The engine stop working approximately 100m from shore. Tom and Jonathan gave plenty of suggestions(?) on how to fix the problem. At the end, I took one for the team and pulled the boat to shore. After fixing the boat we went out collecting. For the first time in the history of this project I didn't get a single lizard. An extremely sad moment. I am positive that Jonathan was making aerial cartwheels in celebration of my poor performance.

How many lizards?????

Jason and Manuel had a another solid day, double digits collecting. However, our leader is having difficulties. Today his production was limited to SOLAMENTE OCHO lagartijos. In other news JBL's new toy is working great (see picture), plenty of morphological data to be analyzed in the near future.

Back in Field 2010

Today we began another exciting field season. The group is getting ready to learn how strong selection can be. Also, we are setting up to begin measuring lizards, which we will be doing for the next 3 weeks. Hasta Manana, M.L.