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Phrynosomatics May 2012

Well, there is a lot to say about the conservation efforts in Guer-rero, good and bad things, but I’ll try to tell you all. First of all, we got a lot of re-sponses from people who wanted to know how to help: art-ists, researchers, conservation-ists, Phrynosoma enthusiasts, even people at HLCS. So, this is a peculiar situation, because we find how to apply all of their skills to resolve the problem (we truly believe that we can find use from a dentist to a physicist, sociologist or psychologist, from a home housewife to a baker or builder to the cause), but we do not have the means to get them here (at Guerrero) or to return the correspondent acknowledg-ment for their participation.

I will mention some names but the list will be really short in comparison to all the help and response we receive. We got help from Ph.D. Ge-rardo Ceballos, a known conservation biologist, to improve our researcher skills, receiving a library donation for our work team. Jackson Shedd of-fered help from his connection to The Nature Conservancy, and he has been paying constant attention to whatever happens here at Zumpango. Jeff Judd started a very serious work on helping us to reinforce with information, experience and

PhrynosomaticsThe Newsletter of the Horned Lizard Conservation Society

Our purpose is to document and publicize the values and conservation needs of horned lizards, to promote horned lizard conservation projects, and to assist with horned lizard management initiatives throughout their ranges.

Volume 17, Issue No. 2 MAY 2012

Conservation of the Horned Lizard in Guerrero, Mexico

by Leonardo J. López-Damián and Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez

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will, the captive management plan as one of the main strategies for conservation. I’m not mention-ing a whole lot of people; sorry about that. So, besides to keep research going at the site (our two students on the diet of Phrynosoma asio, Patricia González Alvarado and Yeniled Grana-dos Calixto, finally graduated with their thesis this year), [Editor’s note: Patricia and Yeniled pub-lished an article in the May 2010 Phrynosomatics issue summarizing their work] we started telling

Work team and People that live at Tepetlayo hill. Left to right - Pablo Rosincuet, Maria Luisa, Leon-ardo López, Rafael Lara, Emilio Leyva, Galia Reyes, Elizabeth Beltrán, Humberto González, Dulce Guzmán, Marcos García, Guadalupe Barbosa, Alfonso Hernández.


President-Elect David Wojnowski, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniversity of North TexasDepartment of Teaching, Edu-

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people about it, awakening interest, asking for participation. We contacted with ROTERACT (juvenile local fraction of the Rotary Club), which find them-selves moved by the situation. They encouraged us to work on a written document that stated the general situation and out-lined our proposal for conserva-tion at the site. We worked on the “Programa Estratégico para la Conservación del Camaleón de Zumpango (Phrynosoma asio) y el Torito (Phrynosoma taurus) en el Cerro Tepetlayo, Zumpango de Neri, Municipio de Edu-ardo Neri, Guerrero”. Sadly, after a few meetings we were unable to synchronize both work agendas (theirs and ours), and we got slowly apart, so this effort went no further. The Strategic Program con-tained an outline of the scientific knowledge that has been gener-ated on the Cerro Tepetlayo in Zumpango de Neri; described its biodiversity, the environmen-tal goods and services obtained from it, and it narrates the spe-cific case of two lizard species endemic to Mexico that are un-der serious threat of extinction.

The current problem is detailed to our best knowledge and we raise the initial planning of a se-ries of conservation strategies that involve our environmental, social and nature knowledge to keep it in better condition. We also include the scientific docu-ments generated by our work team and we propose the first general planning for the next five years. This document was used in lots of meetings with dif-

ferent authorities to explain the problem and possible solution. After our Summer Course at Te-petlayo Hill (financed by Horned Lizard Conservation Society), [Editor’s note: Two grants were awarded in 2008] some of the parents which accompanied their children, talked about the probable designation of a protected area. With a different motivation, they also wanted to stop “foreign” colonization of those areas, so suddenly they have a new reason to stop other people outside their land. We started by calling Federal and State environmental au-thorities and a civil fraction of the Zumpango community and expose the problem. They got a copy of our document and made personal commitments to the cause, offering help from their arenas. We keep close communication with them in this and other fauna research and conservation topics. So, initial

collaboration bridges are getting stronger. A weakness here was that they did not have the fund-ing capabilities or even the fund rising skills to help us in this conservation actions program-ming. Even though, possible effective collaboration is latent with them. Community board, decided to make reality the conservation area. They try to make it work, but they find themselves with-out any money to make it real. Their solution was to donate a part of those lands to Mu-nicipality, which can probably invest on it. Initially it worked. Municipality set a barbed wire fence and human colonization stopped; no more new houses were constructed beyond the fence. This was made until the rainy season was well installed. Slowly (very slowly should I say) native vegetation cover is coming back to the site, but we

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Leonardo and Elizabeth out in the field with a little four eyed possum (on Leonardo’s hat).


probably will have to wait until next rainy season to feel better.

Latter on in the year new prob-lems rise: we noted that not only the threats we have identi-fied persisted (except maybe for human colonization), but we detected some more. Commu-nity people say that they have to stop Municipality President workers when they got to the very scarce well water north of the site. They heard that he wanted to charge for water use; and they were willing to fight against it. So, Municipality quit investing on the site after almost six months. Meanwhile: cows, horses and goats keep grazing the land, the people keep extracting wood for cook-ing, knocking cactuses down for construction, extracting water and plants for food, producing garbage, and using harmful insecticides. Not only that, they do it without any measurement. Separately we got in touch with Municipality authorities, which got very interested in the project (how they couldn’t? –it said that people at the locality can im-prove their wellbeing by helping to preserve something that is theirs). We started a collabora-tion effort to get environmental education for Phrynosoma conservation at the classrooms in each school. Our team (Jeaqueline Hernández Galván, Stephanie Gatíca Cortés, and Erika López Betancourt) worked hard to create better sensibi-lization tools and a variety of activities to do with children. We started by going to the schools closest to Tepetlayo Hill, making a directory of school adminis-

trators and scheduling visits to each student group. We accord that each visit to school was cost free, but we needed col-laboration from teachers and some schools infrastructure; even Municipality offered a modest share to help making it real. They agree, and what they got they liked very much. They even asked for more events like the ones they’ve got. Unfor-tunately we were only able to give full attention to this activity during a four month period, be-fore some other responsibilities overcome our capacities. This year we worked on at least two new research projects on Phrynosoma at the site, we started the formation two under-graduate students (Erika López Betancourt and Monica Lizet Padilla Nava) as human re-sources. We manage to get our research advances to a scientif-ic meeting: 2nd AICAR. At least four talks (Phrynosoma asio diet, reproduction, habitat use, conservation) and a poster (diet of Phrynosoma taurus) were presented. As a derivate of that, lots of students are helping us as volunteers (Karen Fuentes Adame, Paulina Solis, Arturo Morales, Marcos García Pareja, Edith Telumbre, Samir Tellez, Sarahi Toribio, Fabiola López Torres, Susana Rodríguez, and a few more). Some of them are helping us to get close to the community board and present them the captive conservation plan as a UMA that Jeff Judd is promoting. Federal authori-ties (and the small funding they provide) probably will help us making it real. The guys already got the community board’s

attention, and hopefully, next year (2012) we will develop that project, we are looking forward to it. Also as a derivate of that meeting we started the Face-book group “Simposio Virtual de Camaleoneros (Phrynosoma)”, which today has 63 members, most of them Mexican (but we would be glad if every Phryno-soma researcher and enthusiast joins to it). We are using it to share everything we can about horned lizards: ideas, ques-tions, divulgation texts, articles, pictures, cultural views, slides, videos, and etcetera.

Biol. Leonardo J. López-Damián is the Coordinador General at Vertebrados Terrestres de Guerrero (http://sites.google.com/site/vertebradosdeguer-rero/) (http://www.facebook.com/VerTerGro/). Leonardo is on Facebook and welcomes visits: http://www.facebook.com/leonardojld/. And he welcomes visits to the Biology department at The University of Guerrero: http://www.facebook.com/Biolo-gia.UACQB/

M. Sc. Elizabeth Beltrán-Sán-chez is a professor-researcher at Instituto de Investigación Científica Área Ciencias Natu-rales (Natural Sciences Area Research Institute), and she is head of the Laboratorio Integral de Fauna Silvestre (Wildlife Fauna Comprehensive Labora-tory) at Unidad Académica de Ciencias Químico Biológicas, both at Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero. She’s got at least 15 years visiting Tepetlayo hill and doing research on Phryno-soma.

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A Border Runs Through It: Journeys in Regional History and Folklore

by Jim Griffith 2011, Rio Nuevo Publisher, Tucson, Arizona Book Review by Wade C. Sher-brooke

The author of this book is the pinnacle of Southwestern Folk-lore himself, having just re-ceived the Bess Lomax Hawes Fellowship as 2011 National Endowment for the Arts’ Nation-al Heritage Fellow for life con-tributions to folklore. Luckily he has kept a keen ear to stories of horned lizards among his many travels and many publications. This book is an easy read cover-ing the delights of living in a cul-turally rich region of O’odham, Pima, Yaqui, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo music, food, religious, and storytelling traditions. Per-haps the most interesting story for readers of Phrynosomatics is the following in his section on Waterlore:

“The special nature of what we call ‘rivers’ in this country — long, skinny stretches of sand and rocks over which water flows after a rain — has led to one of southern Arizona’s most famous tall tales: the Southern Arizona Sand Trout. You see, while the desert was drying out

after the last Ice Age, the trout that lived in the local streams slowly evolved in or-der to survive in their chang-ing environment. Their gills changed into lungs, and their eyes grew on stalks. These modifications allowed them to ‘swim’ along just under the surface of the sand, looking out into the air. Thus they could catch insects, small lizards, and other prey.”

“Very shy, and able to see long distances, they became known as Arizona’s prime game fish. It was hard to catch them, as the angler must remain totally con-cealed during the process. This was not impossible in the case of handy large boul-ders in the stream bed, but if the banks of the wash were line, as they so often are, with mesquite thickets, one could make just one cast in the morning, and then spend the rest of the day untan-gling one’s line. Finally some genius hit upon the idea of using horned toads (‘horny toads” in common speech) as bait. One could dispense

with hooks and simply tie the line around the critters’ bel-lies, behind their front legs. When the fish struck, a quick jerk would set the lizard’s spikes in the fish’s gullet. If the fisherman hauled the trout to shore briskly, the fric-tion of the desert sand would have it skinned and cooked by the time it was landed.”

“One must remember, how-ever, always to release the bait. Horny toads are a protected species, but here is no law on the books that says you can’t take them for little walks in the desert.”

If you enjoy A Border Runs Through It, consider Griffith’s many other books on cultural values and lore in the greater Southwest.

I am compiling data on horn-breakage injuries on vari-ous species of horned lizards used in fishing for Sand Trout throughout their range in the Southwest. Please contact me with any local observations, stories or photographs.

By Lee Ann Linam

Do you know of some great loca-tions for horned lizard surveys? Are you involved in a horned lizard project where you need some volunteer help? Is there just a neat place that you think

Calling All Horned Lizard Survey Ideas!we should explore?

We’re looking for horned lizard survey ideas for 2012. We’d welcome ideas for any state or any horned lizard species. Please send ideas to Lee Ann Linam (leeann.linam@tpwd.

state.tx.us) to help HLCS offer some great opportunities to its members.

Watch for details in the August newsletter and in any emails you receive from the HLCS.


The myth of what made Leonardo study horned lizards.

Member Highlight: Leonardo J. López-DamiánBy Leonardo J. López-Damián

Hi my name is Leonardo and I’m a Phrynoholic… It wasn’t al-ways like this, even when pets and wild animals were always present at my childhood. I’ve first wanted to be a psycholo-gist, but my older sister (rest in peace), went ahead on that career so I’ve desisted. Later I’ve wanted to study Veterinary to be able to help small animals to overcome illness; but just then, the only available career close to what I’ve imagined was Biology. So I choose that path; hopefully I would be able to see and touch a variety of furry animals. It was one of the best things of my life, my eyes opened to biodiversity.

At Biology school I knew Eliza-beth Beltrán, whom by that time has some years studying Phrynosomas at Zumpango, Guerrero; but she never re-fused to help us study any animal we wanted. So I’ve started to sight, capture, read and learn more and more often about vertebrate life, which I found fascinating. By the end of my degree studies I’ve learned to help in all of the wildlife proj-ects of our laboratory, at the time I was working on my own project. For almost two and a half years I used to go with them looking for horned liz-ards, mostly listening to all that advanced students knew about those animals. It was a golden age: traveling from one site to another through Guerrero State, knowing people, watch-

ing them in close interaction to wild fauna in a wide array of different forms.

Then I’ve turned to the dark side; I’ve decided to work mainly with bats. Packed my bags and went away to do my masters. There I’ve learn how to use rigorous basic biology as part of the decision making process in conservation biol-ogy. I did my masters on diet of an insectivorous bat, while at the same time I was helping my old team back at home to design our own diet analysis for horned lizards. Suddenly all that we did before on horned lizards start to look a lot deep-er, more important and useful. It might be used in new cre-ative ways that I couldn’t notice before. It was then when we came up with the idea to use the whole database of capture-recapture data to make a growth model, to enrich popu-lation studies of Phrynosoma asio which we expect to publish soon; and when we start to pay much more attention to local threats to horned lizards.

After five years (yes, it was a very long master degree –oops!), I went back home talking about bats, how beauti-ful and useful they can be, and back to team up with the old lab, so all the new students knew me as the local bat biolo-gist. Even though by that time I was helping “Camaleoneros” (the local name for Phrynoso-ma is camaleón), to ask HLCS for funding for their diet re-

search and environmental edu-cation efforts. There was even the rumor that at some time, Elizabeth had to tell me that horned lizards were a different kind of bat so I got interested in them to work. Far from the

truth, they got me hooked up right from the beginning. After close contact with children and their families at Tepetlayo hill, we end up with new interesting and important questions that we had to answer in order to help people to make informed conservation decisions such as: When and how they repro-duce? How they use space on their habitats? What do they eat when two horned lizard species coexist?

We and our students are ad-dressing those questions now. But this time we took a more proactive approach. We want to help build an environmental base line on local people to allow them use their resources better. We created the face-book group “Simposio Virtual Camaleoneros (Phrynosoma)” <https://www.facebook.com/groups/281107945261715/>


Leonardo, Elizabeth and students at a meeting with local authorities on Phrynosoma conservation.

as a virtual space to share with laymen and experts the pas-sion we felt for Phrynosoma, in which all are invited to partici-pate with pictures, comments, links, questions and whatever would enrich our group expe-rience. Besides, a nearly 15 members team here at Guer-rero are now producing tools such as slide presentations, di-dactic toys and games, t-shirts, printed cups, bracelets, pins and lot of other ideas to raise interest on horned lizards. All

Talking with children and their families at our summer course on Phrynosoma. Leonardo is the one standing up to the left.

the enthusiasm we have been gathering must be shared now!

Some of the local work team, Pablo and María, have made this project very personal. They have offered us their home every time we go to the Te-petlayo hill, they love horned lizards and always talk to their neighbors about them and our work. Pablo managed to have their street named “Calle Ca-maleones”, and María usually collects every horned lizard that children or other people find and extract from nature so

we can take data and get them back into the field. Rafael and Alfonso were visiting us from UNAM at that time.

Leonardo making pictures at Tepetlayo hill.


Distribution of Round-tailed Lizards in the Northern Extent of their Range.

By Danny Martin, Laura Martin, and David Wojnowski

If you were to look in detail through a variety of references for range maps of horned lizards, it will soon become obvious that for many species of Phrynosoma we lack a good understanding of their distribu-tions!

While this is not just evident of our understanding of horned lizard distributions, it is par-ticularly stark for P. modestum, the round-tailed horned liz-ard, especially in the northern extent of their range. There are several likely causes for an incomplete understanding of the distribution of round-tailed horned lizards: 1) they are per-haps even more cryptic, both in coloration and behaviorally, than other species of horned lizard, and thus more difficult to detect, 2) populations in the Great Plains are more likely to reside on private lands, thus making access for surveys more difficult, and 3) there is a general lack of resources for government agencies to invest in non-game species that are not currently considered at risk of federal listing (i.e., under the Endangered Species Act).

The latter two is-sues also apply to many wildlife species in the Great Plains, but the first issue especially contrib-utes to our lack of understanding for round-tailed horned lizards.

There are sev-eral populations of round-tailed horned lizard known to (his-torically) exist far north of the known core of the species’ geo-graphic range; these populations were known from only a handful of individuals cap-tured at one site in northwestern Oklahoma and from two sites in southeastern Colorado.

Despite efforts to relocate round-tailed horned lizards in Colorado and Oklahoma, no individuals were observed at historic (or new) sites in either state for about the past 10 years. Thus, in 2009 and 2010, the HLCS grant enabled us to

survey the three historic sites in Colorado and Oklahoma to see if we could document per-sistence of the species in the northern extent of their known geographic range.

In addition to documenting populations at two of the three historic sites, we were also able to extend the known range

David had a difficult time detecting round-tailed horned lizards, but did an excellent job out-catching both Laura and Danny in the snake department! Here he holds a young bullsnake captured on the road.

In 2010 HLCS awarded two grants to people who submitted a plan to perform research on the horned lizard. The following article is from one of the HLCS 2010 grant recipients. In the last issue of Phyrno-somatics, the article from the other recipient was published.

2010 Grant Recipient Research Summary


of the species a short distance in Colorado, and we document-ed breeding (via a hatchling) at one site. We also documented the first incidence of blood squirting in this species; see Herpetological Review (2010, Vol. 41, page 228) for more.

Additional details of our findings are expected to be published in 2012, and we will make note of the article here as soon as it is accepted for publication! We also were able to survey close to 20 additional locations on public lands in southeastern Colorado that had potential for round-tailed horned lizard occu-pancy. Of those sites inspected, several were identified to have ‘good’ habitat for round-tailed horned lizards. While quick re-connaissance surveys in these new areas did not uncover

round-tailed horned lizards, we expect to revisit these sites in the coming years to improve our ability to detect this elusive spe-cies.

If you have information about horned lizard lo-cations, please take the time to document those locations with your state wildlife agency or natu-ral heritage program. If you have concerns about locations on pri-vate land, natural heri-tage programs often are able to maintain some degree of confidentiality.

There are also non-gov-ernmental organizations now available for report-

ing locations of reptiles – these systems will becoming increas-ingly important for improving our understanding of species distributions and will better en-able land managers to conserve populations into the future.

Please consider becoming an observer if you are not currently! A great volunteer-based organi-zation for observation records is the North American Field Herp-ing Association’s Herpetologi-cal Educational and Research Project (HERP) database: www.naherp.com

Laura with the 2nd round-tailed horned lizard captured on the expedition – her first and also the first documented hatchling ever in Colorado.

Round-tailed horned lizards are one of the more difficult species of horned lizard to detect due to their cryptic coloration and behavior. Here is a round-tailed horned lizard relying solely on camouflage – it would be even more difficult to see if it were hunched down mimicking a rock. Look for it in the middle of the bottom half of the photo.


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By Leslie Nossaman and Amy Trost

In May 2005 the Society had 258 total members. In Septem-ber 2010 the Society had 235 members. In April 2012 the Society now has 280 members. From September 2010 to April 2012 the lifetime membership increased from 62 to 71. Regular membership is down from 95 to

2012 Membership Update81. Contributing membership increased from 18 to 22. Our number of student members decreased from 21 to 14. Fam-ily membership decreased from 14 to 11. We have one member from Canada and three from Mexico (up one from 2010). The one in Canada is a lifetime mem-ber and one of the three from Mexico is a lifetime member. If you are curious about our U.S.

members, they are from Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Massachu-setts, New Mexico, Ohio, Okla-homa, South Carolina, Michi-gan, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. We are so excited to see so many people interested in the conservation efforts regarding the horned lizard.


Texas Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma cornutum CoasT Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma coronatum Pygmy Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma douglasiisHorT-Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma hernandesi

FLaT-TaiL Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma mcallii

roundTaiL Horned Lizard Phrynosoma modestum

deserT Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma platyrhinosregaL Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma solare

sHorT-TaiL Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma braconnieri

roCk Horned Lizard Phrynosoma ditmarsi

gianT Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma asio

There’s more than one kind of Horned Frog. The fourth floor

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hundreds of beautiful specimens

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collection of 13 known species

of Horned Lizards. Artist Tom

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pewter. Visit his Web site at

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BuLL Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma taurus

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Table of ContentsConservation of the Horned Lizard in Guerrero, Mexico . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . pages 1, 3 - 4 Leonardo J. López-Damián and Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez A Border Runs Through It: Journeys in Regional History and Folklore .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. page 5 Book Review by Wade C. SherbrookeCalling All Horned Lizard Survey Ideas! . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. page 5 Lee Ann LinamMember Highlight: Leonardo J. López-Damián . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. pages 6 - 7 Leonardo J. López-Damián2010 Grant Recipient Research Summary .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. page 8Distribution of Round-tailed Lizards in the Northern Extent of their Range .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. pages 8 - 9 Danny Martin, Laura Martin, and David WojnowskiGoodSearch: A Search Engine that Raises Money for Us! . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . page 10 Wendy Hodges2012 Membership Update . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . page 10 Leslie Nossaman and Amy TrostThirteen Species of Phrynosoma Figurines Displayed at TCU .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. page 11

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