Vegas Phil 1974 Journal 24 Isla Pinta, Galapagos, Ecuador No -1 Feb [illegible] fresh goat carcasses near shore. The -2 Feb some look only a few months old. Last time the shoreline was littered. The park people had contracted to collect them line & drive them to the beach, where a Peruvian boat would load them in. The boat never came & the goats were killed & rotted in site. We think that the carcass accounted for the fantastic fly population last time which in turn accounted for the concentration of Tropidurus along the shore. Apparently not so, for there were still flies & lizards in just as great quantities. (We were camped along the S place). The # of lizards is truly fantastic. Scarcely a m^2 is without at least one. They are on the bare rocks beneath bushes or sand, & in trees. When the tide is down they follow the water edge out. And everywhere we went on the island there were large #'s - even in the highlands. Behaviorally strange - the ?'s rarely bother one another, albeit several may be on one rock. But the ?'s are aggressive & territorial, lots of posturing, threat, & actual attacks. Near the beach we sat around & the Tropidurus came right up. As soon as flies started landing on us the lizards