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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, New publication on Monkey Lizards, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years, 11 months ago
Recently, several colleagues and I published a new taxonomic paper entitled “Cryptic multicolored lizards in the Polychrus marmoratus Group (Squamata: Sauria: Polychrotidae) and the status of Leiolepis auduboni H […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, January 2017 Salamander of the Month, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years ago
Salamander of the Month – the Olm (Proteus anguinus)
© 2015 Dr. Joachim Nerz
The olm is a cave specialized salamander that lives […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Salamander Squad Wraps Up for the Year, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 1 month ago
Earlier in November, our last Salamander Squad outing nabbed four different species (red-backed, ravine, slimy and northern two-lined salamanders) at Wooster Memorial Park. We had three outings this fall and […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Salamander Squad Continues to Rock, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 2 months ago
The Wooster Salamander Squad recently had its second outing of the fall on Oct. 8th. Many secretive salamanders were found by young and old! Our next outing (and last of the fall) will be on Saturday November 5th […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, More good times in the jungle, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 3 months ago
In May of this year, I took three College of Wooster undergraduates to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica to study frogs, snakes and lizards. April Arquilla (’17) did a field experiment on coral snake mimicry, Ben […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Inaugural Salamander Squad Outing, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 3 months ago
The very first group of intrepid salamander biologists went out to Wooster Memorial Park on Saturday, September 17th. It rained much of the early morning hours but then let up as we went out into the woods. The […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Back from JMIH in New Orleans, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 5 months ago
I was happy to be able to attend the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this year, which met recently in New Orleans. With co-author Erin Hodson (’14) I gave a talk entitled “Decline of an […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, The Secret Lives of Squirrels, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 10 months ago
Late last year, Jacob Beckstead (’16) and I got some squirrel nest boxes set up on the College of Wooster campus. These nest boxes are equipped with web cams that allow us to peak in on the squirrels activities […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Squirrel Nest Boxes Up and Running!, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 10 months ago
My student Jake Beckstead (’16) recently set up three squirrel nest boxes with web cams that are now up on three trees on the College of Wooster campus (near Kauke, Scovel and Severance Halls). It took about 3 or […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Bloody Bay Poison Frog paper accepted, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 5 years, 5 months ago
Recently, my students and I had a paper accepted to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Herpetology. This paper “Re-assessing the conservation status of an island endemic frog”, was based on thr […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Late Nights in Costa Rica, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 5 years, 5 months ago
Hola from La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica!
I am here with three Wooster students conducting research on glass frogs. The station is an excellent place to conduct biological research in the lowland […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, New Paper on Cricket Frog Declines, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 5 years, 12 months ago
About ten years ago, I started a project with a few students to assess to conservation status of Blanchard’s cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) in the state of Ohio. The last large scale assessment of the d […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, A Week in Colombia, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 years ago
At the beginning of December, I had the opportunity to attend a conference being held in Cartagena, Colombia. I was asked by the organizers of a special symposium entitled “Parental Care in Anurans” to give a tal […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Further Adventures in Trinidad and Tobago, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 years, 4 months ago
About a month ago, I returned from my eighth research trip to the lovely and interesting islands of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to my own work on frog ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation, I had four […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Salamander Biologists Unite!, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 years, 6 months ago
In May, I spent three days in lovely Tulsa, Oklahoma attending the 6th Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders (http://plethodontids2014.weebly.com). These salamanders are the most diverse group of […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, New Paper on Glass Frog Parental Care, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 years, 10 months ago
This week a new paper appeared in the journal Ethology based on work that my students and I have been conducting on the Tobago glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium orientale). In this paper, Sara Green (current Wooster […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, New Book on Amphibians of Ohio Published, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 7 years ago
In December 2013, the Ohio Biological Survey published a massive tome on the amphibians of Ohio. This volume (899 pages!) covers all 40 species of frogs and salamanders to be found in the state. There are also […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, A new parrot snake from Tobago., on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 7 years, 2 months ago
Recently, my collaborators and I published a paper that described a new species of parrot snake from Tobago (click here for a preview). This new snake was named Leptophis haileyi in honor of Dr. Adrian Hailey of […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Tree frogs, geckos and piranhas, oh my!, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 7 years, 4 months ago
Three rising Wooster seniors got their boots dirty (and wet) doing field work in Trinidad and Tobago this past summer. Zak Bradley (’14) sampled seventeen streams in Tobago and northern Trinidad catching oodles o […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post, Wooster Biologists Present The Fruits of Their Labors, on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 7 years, 5 months ago
In July of this year, I attended the 2013 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At this fun and engaging conference on the biology of fish, amphibians and reptiles, I […]
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