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March 16
night overcast at first (falling rain), then mostly clear. Frost,
plus ice on water bucket outside.
Calculation of tolerance with Schulteis; in no. of seeds for 40 chicks.
#1 - 36.2° - 8.1sec., 27.3° - 12.9sec., 17.6° - 21.65sec., 8.6° - 35.3, 6.3°-42.1
cutout
at about 5°.
#2 35.7° - 14.0sec., 27.2° - 21.5sec., 17.4°-36.1 8.9-58.0 4.6-76.4 0°-102.4
#3 (Bernstein) 35.3° x 7.17, 26.9° x 14.4, 17.2° x 32.75
Ran some sun-shade tests of a toad with transmitter fed by
mouth (easy). Then put him under a big toad-boulder
with "runways" under it and monitored him all day. He
never came out, and so finally at 7:30 me tried getting gone
and retrieved him (and the radio). Also put a radio under a
nearby boulder and monitored its temp. Anita watched a
small toad come out and bask.
Brief rain about middle of day, followed by west wind
and scattered clouds.
March 17
morning clear. Dan logged-tood sunbason. See my and
Dave's species accounts. Basically the lizard went into
the sun and stayed there, making only occasional forays
into the shade to explore or try to escape + definitely not
thermoregulating by a simple in-out movement. The toad
slumbered around, some sun, some shade, and ended up in
the shade. afternoon- windy from west, no rain, Dave
hunted ref streams and collected 1c toad and 2 breeding & unsexable.