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photo: Jack Ewing Have you ever seen a caiman on a mountainside in a primary forest more than a kilometer from the nearest water? At Hacienda Barú National Wildlife Refuge there is a trail called the “caiman trail” because one of our guides sighted a caiman there in March of 2016. Late in the dry season, competition for possession of the few puddles that remain in the lowlands is so intense that caimans and otters are sometimes driven to walk great distances in search of w