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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I The Thrill of Discovery
    1. 1. The Irreplaceable Role of Nature in Scientific Discovery
    2. 2. The Crawfish Frog’s Jaw
    3. 3. Journey to the Amazonian Rainforest
    4. 4. A Rainy Evening in the Pantanal
    5. 5. Tracking Turtles
    6. 6. Finding the Frog That Sings Like a Bird
    7. 7. Borneo’s Tadpole Heaven
    8. 8. How the Bog Frog Got Its Name
  4. Part II Adventure and Exploration
    1. 9. My First Summit Camp
    2. 10. Down Under
    3. 11. Lessons from the Field: It’s the Journey, Not the Destination
    4. 12. Flying Southward Thirty-Three Degrees to Catch More Frogs
    5. 13. Trip to the Xingu River in the Amazon Forest of Brazil
    6. 14. Wok bilong ol pik
    7. 15. In Search of Wonder: How Curiosity Led Me to Madagascar
  5. Part III Fascination and Love for the Animals
    1. 16. Never Work on a Species That Is Smarter than You Are
    2. 17. The Reality of Giant Geckos
    3. 18. Following the Mole (Salamander) Trail: A Forty-Year Cross-Country Journey
    4. 19. Chance, Myth, and the Mountains of Western China
    5. 20. Dive in the Air beside a Rice Paddy: A Moment to Grab an Eluding Snake
    6. 21. Immersion
    7. 22. Herpetology Moments
    8. 23. Crying in the Rain, in the Middle of the World
    9. 24. Frogs in the Clear-Cut
    10. 25. Once upon a Diamondback: Learning Lessons about the Fragility of Desert Life
    11. 26. SWAT Team to the Rescue
    12. 27. Military Herpetology
  6. Part IV Mishaps and Misadventures
    1. 28. Close Encounters of the Gator Kind
    2. 29. Don’t Tread on Her
    3. 30. A Snake to Die For
    4. 31. Goose on the Road
    5. 32. Lost on the Puna
    6. 33. Lost and Found
    7. 34. The Mob That Almost Hanged Us in Chiapas, Mexico
    8. 35. Adventures while Studying Lizards in the Highlands of Veracruz, Mexico
  7. Part V Dealing with the Unexpected
    1. 36. The Field Herpetologist’s Guide to Interior Australia … with Kids
    2. 37. Troubles in a Tropical Paradise
    3. 38. Island Castaways and the Limits of Optimism
    4. 39. Lessons in Patience: Frog Eggs, Snakes, and Rain
    5. 40. Sounds of Silence on the Continental Divide
  8. Part VI The People We Meet, the Friendships We Forge, the Students We Influence
    1. 41. Why Do I Do What I Do in the Field?
    2. 42. The Captain and the Frog
    3. 43. Exploring the Wild Kingdom with Marlin
    4. 44. Terror, Courage, and the Little Red Snake
    5. 45. Team Snake Meets Equipe Serpent
    6. 46. Ticks, Policemen, and Motherhood: Experiences in the Dry Chaco of Argentina
    7. 47. Adventures in Wonderland
    8. 48. In the Rabeta of the Pajé: An Ethnoherpetological Experience
  9. Parting Thoughts
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Index

A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) Founders’ Fellows Program, which supports budding high school herpetologists to attend the annual SSAR meetings. At the meetings, students attend paper sessions, learn about colleges and universities with herpetology programs, discover career opportunities, and meet others with shared interests.

Copyright © 2024 Cornell University Press

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2024 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Crump, Martha L., editor.

Title: Lost frogs and hot snakes : herpetologists’ tales from the field / edited by Martha L. Crump.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023039433 (print) | LCCN 2023039434 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501774485 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501774492 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501774508 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Herpetology—Fieldwork—Anecdotes. | Herpetologists—Anecdotes. | LCGFT: Anecdotes.

Classification: LCC QL644 .L67 2024 (print) | LCC QL644 (ebook) | DDC 597.9—dc23/eng/20231101

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023039433

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023039434

Cover image: Paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxa). Hand-colored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1849. Alamy.com.

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