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Dusseyon
Dec.3 At 8:30 a.m. 5 km. S of Mazan saw a fot along road. Several shots with Barrett but missed. It looked smaller than the cacahera fot. After a couple of sighting shots etc. we got in Benz and drove off. Then saw only a couple of hundred yards further on, 2 more fotos in the road. One was even smaller than the first, accompanied by a 3/4 grown one. Shot the larger of these two. It was a lactating fot with 3 parental cares (2+1), but remained in stomach.
The young was reluctant to leave when the mother was shot.
April 28 Pichupichuri. At 3 p.m. saw fot on pasture beyond our census area. He was sniffing back and forth, stalking, making short dashes, peering or sniffing down holes. Watched him with binoculars for about 5 minutes at 400yds, then took movie camera and approached to 75-100 yds. He showed only slight concern and continued above contours in middle of area where guinea pigs were abundant, trees rare. Once more contours stalk followed by dash (unsuccessful), but most of the time nosing back and forth, low close to ground. After about 20 minutes and perhaps 15 short dashes he caught a guinea pig; this was not after a stalk, but just a side dash while nosing along. He ate it on the spot, while took about 2 minutes. During my watching he urinated about 5 times. Shot him. Two other guinea pigs in stomach in big pieces. No jaguar trees.