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Transcription
AKP
1973
gun and he shot it. The Phyllotis were all sizes -
Lots of quite small ones, and one of the larger was
seen variable in color. I thought there were some
(somewhat muddled ears ?)
smallist mice who behaved a little differently -
they tended to dash madly when the light was
on them, whereas others that were perhaps
larger Phyllotis just nibbled away unconcernedly.
More eyeside came from every crevice, and
there were at least 15 mice climbing in and
around a shrubby-rocks area on one side of
the pit. I walked a short way down the rock
and saw 2 little Phyllotis with a piece of
watermelon rind they were making off with.
Finally back to bed, and still we were conscious
of mice running past our faces or over our
sleeping bags. There were several
mice in the tent - gnawing affectionately at
an avocado. They also went for some chocolate
cakes, but left the bananas strictly alone.
This morning we counted the numbers of mice
who had ended up in traps - of my 20 traps,
11 had mice, 2 had had mice but they got out.
The three traps under the table all had mice
in them. All the bread had disappeared from the
pit, as all the smaller pieces of melon rind. Dave
at OP also had enormous catches.
OP helped me fiddle long of four mice
for EM, while Dave put up some akodon. The