Field notes, v1724
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JEFFER 1956 JOURNAL (8002) UNIV OF CALIF, BERKELEY, ALAMEDA CO, CA FE04 (cont) WITH THE SPIDER + WAS FOUND PARTLY EATEN SEVERAL DAYS LATER ALTHOUGH NO ONE HAD SEEN THE SPIDER KILL + EAT IT. A [illegible] so LATER BROCK GOT AN ADULT WILD MUS TRAPPED IN LIFE SCIENCE BLDG. COURT- YARD + PUT IT IN WITH THE SPIDER, WHICH WOULD "STRIKE" AT THE MOUSE IF THE LATTER BOTHERED IT TOO MUCH, BUT OTHER THAN THAT SEEMED TO SHOW LITTLE INTEREST IN THE MOUSE. BROCK TOOK THE MUS OUT AFTER A DAY OR TWO + KEPT IT IN A SEPARATE CASE. A [illegible] & MEAN WORM ADULTS & LARVAE WERE NOT TAKEN BY THE SPIDER EITHER, ALTHOUGH THESE INSECTS WERE KEPT IN THE CASE FOR 2 OR 3 WEEKS, WHILE BROCK WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH HISTOPLASMOSIS (?), I TRAPED ANOTHER MUS (PUT IT IN THE [illegible] AQUARIUM WITH FOOD + WATER) BUT HE ONLY SEEMED TO FRIGHTEN THE SPIDER WHICH OCCASION- ALLY "STUCK" AS BEFORE WITHOUT TOUCHING THE MOUSE. ON FEB 1, I REMOVED THE ADULT WILD MUS + PUT IN A JUST- WEANED WHITE LAB MUS SUPPLIED BY CHET [illegible] FROM ROOM 5093 LDB. THE MUS SHOWED NO FEAR OF THE SPIDER + WOULD OCCASIONALLY CRAWL ON THE LATTER'S BACK OR WORK HIS WAY UNDERNEATH HIM. THE SPIDER "STUCK" TOWARDS THE MOUSE ONLY OR TWICE, BUT, AS BEFORE, TOOK LITTLE WORKS OF THE MOUSE AS IT FLEW OR RAN