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Pearson
1982
Peter Maresan trapped his grid at La Picada and was very disappointed in the catch: only a handful of celobros, no savourini. He had been hoping to show great stability of populations in undisturbed areas.
A student in the course, Ricardo , has been trapping an area near Puyehue-Centillanca, higher than La Picada. He has not been getting celobros and was not familiar with acorampas. He lives in Osorno and teaches at an institute there,
Dec. 15 Valdivia. Off to San Martin study area above me.
Checked some Sherman live traps set in small grids surrounding one of the manegrids (to pick up semigrats).
Also set about 10 pitfall traps (galvanized "cones" with metal galvanized funnel). Peter Maresan and 4 of the students set about 100 al-metal mouse traps at about $80 museum specials. I set 13 museum specials carefully (mostly legs in forest or bushy-grass), 3 Shermans in forest (legs), 5 Shermans in thick grass/bushberry looking for aculeamps. Then with the students we set 3 lines of Shermans in a forest across the road = 4-75 traps. The snap traps caught 1 also long; before dark.
Weather warm and fine, no rain. Saw 1 clump of Chusquea quila in blossom (pointed out by Pedro Nuning, their taciturn plunky who runs the traps for them).
Dec. 16 Weather clear and warm. My traps nothing. The other snap traps 4 also long, 2 of them lactating and two