{"id":296,"date":"2023-10-01T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2024-04-26T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:31:06","slug":"mira-un-lugar-donde-las-lagartijas-del-genero-stenocercus-son-muy-comunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/mira-un-lugar-donde-las-lagartijas-del-genero-stenocercus-son-muy-comunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mira, here are many lizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

In many parts of the world people are demanding equitable solutions to overcome the social, economic, and environmental crises we are experiencing. In South American countries, it is not a surprise that the streets are the settings where people claim for social justice and better life conditions. In fact, on June 2022, Ecuador witnessed an 18-day national strike, which more than anything reflected that individual interests are blocking our progress as a society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once normality was restored in Ecuador, we travelled to Mira, a small town located at the northernmost province of Ecuador, Carchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This place is well-known for its breathtaking landscapes and viewpoints as well as for its variable weather. Our hosts were an incredible woman named Patricia Vizuete and her sister Mercedes, who kindly shared their house with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A clear day at our study site allowed us to view two emblematic volcanoes: Imbabura on the left and Cotacachi on the right. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mountains and their immensity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The night is coming, a great day ends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jefferson Mora, swinging at 2300 m.a.s.l.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Malki Bustos, swinging at the Andean Condor viewpoint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Jason cheering us up with a rainbow, a sign of a coming good day?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jefferson, Paty, Meche, and me posing with Romina and Arwen (the dogs) outside the house where we stay for a month.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Even though this place does not belong to any protected area, the abundance of our focal species, the endemic lizard Stenocercus chota<\/em>, is greatly represented. We could record several behaviours such as matings, territorial displays, and predation. This latter interaction caught us by surprise and we were a bit reluctant to conclude that we had just witnessed a lizard captured by a hawk until our photos confirmed it. As such an event has not been recorded before, we will publish a scientific note to document this aspect of the natural history of these species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Male of Stenocercus chota <\/em>basking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Female of S. chota <\/em>elegant on a branch of a shrub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Male of S. chota <\/em>basking on a cactus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Time for mating and increase the population.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"I want to warm but not too much\"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Deciding where to fly to finish its meal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A hawk tearing apart a lizard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A female of S. chota<\/em> basking over the top of a bush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was very happy with the outcomes of this field work, not only because this was the first study site where I successfully completed all planned activities but also because I demonstrated to myself that I can accomplish things by working hard on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Estefany S. Guerra Correa<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although this site does not belong to any protected area, the abundance of our study species, the endemic lizard Stenocercus chota, is very well represented.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esguerracorrea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}