Field notes, v1524
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Becerra 1971 Notomys caldwellii Nov.2, Cerro Otto, 1200m, Rio Negro, caught 3 in 70 Sherman in the longu - amazonay forest, one of them in a small Sherman at a bamboo clump. The lines look very pregnant. It refused armadillidium but ate earthworms, slugs, and long cooing meat larvae. At first refused a Notomys macrourus and a dead also large with the brain exposed, but later it ate an enormous quantity of muscle off of a macrurus carcass. Within 18 hrs it had eaten all of its specific intestine, leaving just a pickled - bone skeleton. Nov.5 3 young born to the above f., #6592 Nov.6 One of the young weighed 3.2g. Nov.7 all 3 young dead, not eaten; one of them measures 5 x 12 x 8 x 3 But a smallish mole in with her and they got along fine right off, caught a small one coming out of a hole at base of tree at 1800m duration (above Refugio Macanay), Snowbanks all around, a young one: #6586? Nov.8 Did not eat a Pleurodema but in with them. Dec.8 A young rodent caught at Lago [illegible] House in Retamo- Rice, has been eating worms, mouse carcass, flies, that bugs, ear wigs,