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M F Smith
1993
JOURNAL
Bariloche, Prov. Rio Negro, Argentina
Nov.24 We didn't catch any animals in the
two traps near the burned area.
In the meadow at the base of Cerro Renge
in Payne's 22 Sherman traps there were
6 Abrothrix longipilis
1 Abrothrix olivaceus
1 Oligoryzomys longicaudatus,
We processed the live animals when we
got back to the apartment, after lunch
& took tissues and made complete skeletons
of some of the animals from the snap traps.
At 4:30pm Payne and I went out to
set traps in a clearing above the road up
to Cerro Otto. We alternated Shermans and
snap traps, about 24 of each. This habitat
is mixed with some steppe plants and
some plants of the moister forest. We will call
this east knoll of Cerro Otto.
Nov.25 Drove out at 7:30am to check the 48 traps
on the east knoll of Cerro Otto. We got 2 animals:
1 Eligmodontia morgeni
1 Abrothrix xanthorhinus
Both were in snap traps on the north facing slope.
The Xanthorhinus looks like a typical representative
of that type. Across the road only about
400 meters away we can see the meadow where
we got a typical A. olivaceus.