A possible explanation for a higher number of captures in drier months is that species move more out of their breeding season (that is the wet season), thusfalling in pitfall traps more often. During the breeding period, species are likely to use smaller areas that may be either defended territories or favored calling sites and their vicinities. However, a peak of rainfall and abundance of anurans occurred in December. The great amount of rainfall may have triggered the reproductive activities of many AL species that depend on the formation of
bodies of water to breed (Duellman and Trueb, 1994).