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High Andes - Cordillera Vilcanota

Fieldwork with the highest frogs in the world in Southern Peru.
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    The lesser horned owl or Magellanic horned owl (Bubo magellanicus), formerly a subspecies of the great horned owl it was elevated to full species status.  It lives in Southern South America and can be found high above the tree line in the Andes.
    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.
    Liolaemus thomasi, a high andean lizard restricted to a few valleys high in the Andes of Southern Peru.