Pearson - 1997 5 in Bariloche to celebrate National Park Day. Then to the hospital in Villa Angostura to see if we could contact their mouse man, Dr. Samuel Garcia. He was not in, nor was the Director of the hospital, Dr. Jose PEROTTI (telephone 94170-94770). Then home. Drizzly. Clara says spring has been cloudy, few good days. An orderly at the hospital came out to our car when we were leaving and asked was it safe to eat trout from the lake? He is a fisherman. The trout season opens next week, trout eat the drowning mice etc. 7 November- Arranged for E-mail in the "store" next door (Omar and Gregorio). Then Eileen and John came by for water. They say lots of tucos. Then off to Villa Angostura (1 1/2 hours) to have coffee with Drs. Garcia and Perotti. They are quite interested in the outbreak of mice and were looking for suggestions of what should they do. Their trapper is Claudio Brusoni, a veterenary for the Neuquen Ministerio de Salud y Accion Social in San Martin de los Andes. He is said to have had 80% trap success with Sherman traps at one place, 50% Oligos. He is going to trap Villa Traful soon. On the Peninsula Quetrihue they found mice running across the trails and even found dead ones on the trails (by guards patrolling for the security of Presidents Clinton and Menem). The two doctors seemed interested that Parkguards were picking up dead micie on the beaches. Territorial dispute? Concern for their health? The doctors volunteered any cooperation. Many people that we have talked to tell about mice acting loco. Got home to Bariloche about 9:15 p.m. Note that the high population of Oligos at Lago Espejo Chico is not related to "good" habitat; there were no blackberry bushes, no rosa mosqueta, no scotch broom. They obviously overflow into all sorts of habitats. Note also that the the Oligos in live traps, when dumped into the deep wastebasket, behaved like normal Oligos, not loco as the people here describe outbreak mice. Ditto Abro longi and Abro olivaceus. Finished the last of three bags of frozen beach mice. One bag was marked Lago Espejo Chico, One was labelled Ruca Malen, but the third had no label. Sex ratio: 3 Beaches Traps at Espejo Chico