Records of Attack and Predation on Amphibians and Reptils from Limoncocha, Northern Amazon of Ecuador

Abstract

With the purpose of generating information on the Natural History and behavior of the terrestrial fauna in the locality of Limoncocha. Were made tours of sampling day and night during august and october 2019. Through photographic records we know four predatory events where the Herpetofauna acts as an ecosystem and prey. We have Leptophis cupreus hung by a tree consuming Boana geographica. To Cyanocorax violaceus perched on the branch of a tree preying on Dendropsophus reticulatus. Two occasions where Ctenus sp., capture juvenile Allobates insperatus. To Milvago chimachima carrying Epicrates cenchia in his claws. It is provided with important records of Natural history that nourish the knowledge of interactions between terrestrial fauna like anurans, snakes, birds and an arachnid, present in Ecuador and the Neotropics.