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Held Rain

A graduate student surveying arboreal amphibians in Neotropical cloud forest needed a stand-in for live bromeliads, which rot within days and block repeat sampling. The Modular Bromeliad is a 3D-printable, rope-mounted unit that recreates water-holding leaf axils on trunks and branches: small basins plus a central reservoir collect rain, a wicking pad drains it slowly, and the whole kit packs to about 900 g so the same sites can be checked all season without harming the trees.