C Kofard 13 Journal 2 June 1972 Villavicencio, Colombia grawn. | V. lies at ft. of mountains, when plains to east start. This is lab where Marston Bates worked on mosquitoes. | FM said many colorates to east. The most undeveloped remaining are in the south, southern 1/2 Caqueta and Putumayo ruins. | FM said some very pale colored jaguar on the "mereto"; redder in dense forests. Formerly very slender in northern coastal region (not actually on coast). | F.M. had 3 books by G. Ruschel-Dalmatoff, anthropologist of Bogota, mostly about Indians of Vaupes. Many refs. to jaguares - shown in stro rode paintings. | FM said he saw an oclet at a big ejguana, and one killed a small caiiran. He had heard from J.P. Dr. Schuly (Senior game dept.) that a jaguar had killed Forest Service several turtles and attacked Dermochelys on Bigisanti beach (turtle nest there). FM had been to Surinam recently & was much impressed with orderliness & good wildlife population (including y crocodiles). Little hunting there, & no expectaton of deer. (Few people & roads in French Surinam, so more much wildlife still, FM said ). BROKO PONDO new Surinam 30 miles long, displaced many animals. Oclet now totally protected in Surinam, but jaguar considered game species (yet, FM says no guns in country?). Wildlife legal enforcement under Min. Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries. | FM said jaguar often follows a man, who ferrets its tracks when still. big bucks. Once one closely followed man who had a dog, a favored prey of jaguars. Cat not afraid of dogs; kills them, FM said. About 1957-8, near Curico, many jaguares. 2-3 arranged at once when called (into an earthen pot). Big cattle