Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui, Panama 11 April 2003 I watched the SNK display area for 2 hours in the morning and one in the afternoon to observe the aftermath of removing the alpha, BSY. The area was very, very silent and I saw few manaking. Shortly into my first watch, though, I noticed a coral snake in a tree about 20 meters away. (@ 10:50am) It was lying completely still and draped over the trunk of a leaning tree. I investigated more closely and found that its head was severed and completely gone. The blood was still fresh on the wound, and two marks (like puncture wounds, but visible only because of the puckering of the skin, not because of any hole or blood) were on the side about 6" apart. The entire snake was about 1 1/2 feet long and 1 1/2 cm in diameter. (+ the diameter of my index finger). As I investigated the snake, a laughing Falcon "laughed" very nearby - about 20m to the South. It vocalized a little more and then flew off to the North. I videoed the snake, both to get a better ID of the species and to see if Tabitha Bruce of Cornell University can use it in her research on coral snake depredation by laughing Falcons. I finished my watch and returned to the snake ~ 1 1/2 hours later after I initially looked it over. The blood was congealed and drying at the