Journal 17 March 1973. Hda. Urara, Venezuela recently. They seemed not to know the hunting was illegal. | Saw 3 or 4 Aulacobyphus tanarus; two fed on green fruits of plant 15' up. | About 12:30 we started down same caño as on 15 March. Saw a 6' caiman, barely alive, in center of it, where no water for a few hundred yds. | Live & dead guapolo (?) fish, some over 12", in small drying pools near them - but few troche now; why don't scissors get them? | Went on same caño until about 3:15 p.m., when trail got narrow. The jaguar trail of previous day still somewhat present, about 9 cm wide across toes. Some were tracks smaller 4½ cm cat absent - fainter across toes & lighter; front & hind feet same or "reversed" size - judged jaguarundi (locally "gato" or "cigüita"). Some of these among fewer tracks apparently fresh. Placed old jaguar tracks & cast two. There (small) about 7 cm wide across toes at maximum. | Picked up one large dropping w. some fragments + hair; pale grey; judged of jaguar. | At one point we saw two monkeys, rather slow & quiet, climbing among palms at edge caño, about 5 m. up (black legs + tail, greyish head, brown- ish body; Color nigra?). Looks like howler, macaco (this one), and (squirrel?) night monkey present this area. | Caño became narrow & vegetated, then still a trace, soon turned back. At 4:30 p.m. we found very fresh jaguar trail on top of our own trail, made about 1:30. So an active in day! and following our trail, in part. The trail dashed across the caño for 5 m. through grey mud, animal sinking in perhaps 2 cm. - evidently it had been slowed, probably by our approach, & fled across caño & into thick vegetation. I sniffed about but smelled nothing. Tracks same size as the old ones - presumably some animal had returned, to its after several days absence. | We looked track it up the caño