Shanelle Wikramanayake, a University of Washington undergraduate researcher working with Burke Museum Herpetology Curator Adam Leaché, travels to Sri Lanka each summer to collect DNA samples from an endemic and elusive rough-nosed horned lizard (Ceratophora aspera) as habitat loss threatens its survival.
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Special thanks: Gayeshan Arachchige, Dr. Adam Leaché, Nirmali Pallewatte, Dinal Samarasinghe, Dr. Eric Wikramanayake, Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka, Colombo University, Mary Gates Endowment, Walter and Margaret Sargent Endowment.
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