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High Andes - Cordillera Vilcanota

Fieldwork with the highest frogs in the world in Southern Peru.

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The marbled water frog (Telmatobius marmoratus), is one of the two highest elevation frogs in the world, both of which occur in the Cordillera Vilcanota. These frogs spend their entire lives in pristine freshwater habitats. A threatened species declining from harvesting by humans, destruction of their habitat, introduction of invasive trout, and the chytrid disease.

Diademed Sandpiper Plover (Phegornis mitchellii) is a rare bird of high andean peat bog habitat. Its distribution is sporadic and it is missing from many seemingly suitable areas of habitat.

The warty toad (Rhinella spinulosa) is the amphibian with the widest elevational range in the world, found from sea level to about 5200 m asl. At the high points of its range, there are no people and little light pollution or atmosphere to obscure the stars. The Inca people named a constellation Hanp'atu after this toad.