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upata camp, 13km N of Tarata
mark 26 Hithership lizard integrator and black body integrator (reading)
at 6:30 a.m., temp. ~4°, they went down to the big craft to look for a big Gekkonids. Hunted long where I had seen 6 big ones yesterday and eventually found one near the big boulder close to the road. He was under a smallish 1-foot round boulder.
Inserted integrator at 7:35 and returned him to under the rock. Under-rock temperature 4°.
7:55 - Emerged ½ way out is ½ in weak sun, shade temp. 42°, 5½°
8:03 - ⅔ out in sun.
8:05 - ¾ sun
8:06 - Sun went behind cloud and he crawled into the 2" circle between his rock and a much bigger one.
8:13 - partly emerged, but I frightened him back in,
8:25 - 48°, still cloudy, no open sun since 8:08.
8:28 - cloudy-cold but he emerged from under his rock ½ away.
8:36 - " " , re-emerged a little further, ¾
8:53 - 48½°, cloudy. Sniped still ½ to ⅔ out and in so sun!
9:08 - tried 1 shot (min.) of filtered sun between 9:00 and 9:08. Sniped ½ after,
9:24 - air 50°, Cloudy, Dived ⅔ out.
9:37 - seemed inly cute. Air temp. 50°
9:44 - head + forelegs out of hole - which is really a shade of rock, cloudy light + wind.
9:44 - seems further - 2/3.
9:58 - mount I fell on.
9:56 - emerge very slowly - now all but tail in view. Cloudy windy
10:10 - all but tail out of hole. In last half hour only a few moments, 7 full sun.
10:22 - ⅓ exposed, a few moments of sun.
10:30 - air 54½°, 9:45 soil temp. 12°.
10:44 - sun again! I last fanned!
10:50 - air 55°
10:52 - sun
10:54 - now 1/8 ft proud.
10:55 - shade
11:02 - straddled sun.
11:10 - try to deflects - hemifaces around, wet; sniff at self or tail, raises pelvis.
11:13 - med dash + under large rock.
11:16 - ¾ out from above rock.
11:18 - all out - sun + clouds. Done with
11:45 - air 55°
11:55 - fairly bright sun for some time, sniped moved 1½ feet under big boulder.
11:40 - in a lab on the reef saw 5 small lizards and 3 big ones.
11:55 - ¾ out again.