Lizard Man's Travels

This site is a journal of my travels and other adventures while I shift from doing postdoctoral research on tree frog ecology in Darwin, Australia, to research on digestive physiology of lizards and bats in Sede Boqer, Israel. Enough friends have been asking me for regular updates on this journey, that I thought this would be the best forum to keeep everyone up to date (including me).

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Michal setting net


Michal setting net
Originally uploaded by wandering lizard.
Here is Michal setting up a net to catch the lizard. This particular burrow actually had a lizard in it, but the lizard was much smarter than we, so it's still in the burrow. You can guess how easy it is to spot these burrows in a field of rocks.

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Blogger wandering lizard said...

My understanding is that the the flora and fauna of the rift valley are Persian, which would include Iraq. There is some interesting geology in the valley too, because the Jordan side has slipped about 150km to the north. It means that the Israeli side is really rocky, with not much sand, and the Jordan side is really sandy with not many rocks. Very odd to look at. I bet the military build up is similar though. There were a couple of water pumping stations on our site, and they were surrounded by very well demarcated mine fields. At least there are big warning signs around the land mines here.

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