Pearson - 1995 18 their noosing technique (shoe lace) plus a couple of dry twigs or thistle stalks across the opening in such a way that they will wiggle and signal the approach of a tuco into position to be noosed. Took photos. The sick tuco that I skinned a couple of days ago was lying dead about 2 feet from a burrow. John has not seen them do the fan-like distribution of excavated earth that other tucos use. December 7.- Bariloche. Sunny nd warm. To ECOTONO and talked with Nadia and Mariana re. Nadia's thesis. Rapoport was there with a new Principle: "When you choose a species for a thesis project, it is bound to go extinct." Apparently his soil arthropod has gone extinct. Dinner with Werner and JoAnne Flueck. After 4? years they still don't have permits for either of the vehicles they brought from the States. Werner has shot about a dozen dogs in his back yard. December 8.- Bariloche sunny warm. To Aguas Calientes in Chile. Presumed Chelemys runways at the top of the pass. Lots of dead quila bamboo along the road beginning a mile or two east of the Chilean aduana. We stopped at a couple of places and found no new quila shoots. Walked along the forest loop trail at Aguas Calientes. Lots of healthy green branched bamboo too slender to be quila (and it did not bloom). The vegetation here looks dry.the moss on tree trunks not very green. Lots of people in the thermal pool along the river. Tried the bat detector twice after dark, no bat sounds. December 9.- Aguas Calientes, Chile. Morning started sunny, then clouded up. Drove out the road toward the Termas and walked up to the island of dead quila that I had trapped in 1992 when we were here with Milton Gallardo. There was no new bamboo emerging from the dead tangle. Numerous belladonna stalks emergng fom pure dead bamboo, but mostly more blackberry and fuchsia around periphery, and more and bigger trees. The death of the bamboo must release young trees for 5 or even 10 years. In most places where we looked in the "island" there were no seedling bamboo, but in one place we found several, with about 4 culms including this year's shoot, the tallest about 10 inches high. Thn drove up the fancy new cement road to the