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Seib, R.
1984
Cuetemaro to Los Tuxtlas UNAM, Veracruz, Mexico
3 Nov. that area. Anyway, the Los Tuxtlas station
is outstanding virgin forest in the shape of
a narrow rectangle, 5 km long. There
are walkable narrow trails and much
wildlife, including black harter monkeys,
quite common. We netted this night
cross a stream and a large cut
trail, but only got Carollia castanea
and Vampyressa nymphaea.
Los Tuxtlas UNAM to Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
4 Nov. Eating breakfast I was introduced to a
Botanist, Rudolfo, by a herpetologist,
Gonzalo Medina. I asked the botanist
if he happened to have a tree where
Saccopteryx bilineata roosted. He happened
to know.... This is the most important numero
uno best bet for Allison to get on this trip.
After breakfast, we got a butterfly net and
took a trail into the forest. Somewhere off the
trail in that forest was a huge silkcotton,
so it was a Ficus, a strangler fig. Anyway,
there was a yellow rope ladder sort of
dangling 100' down, and I was sort of
-elected to climb 75' up. I did so, five
times. The 2nd time I went up and
dangled I caught four FF. No help to
to Allison because the wing sacs are