DuVal, E.H. 2005 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriquí, Panamá 19 Apr sharpened machete, and me spent shotgun shell. What's good enough to shoot around here? Monkeys? Iguanas? Os? I assume those are Roberto's things, since he's skipping work today and they weren't here yesterday. I know Frank doesn't permit hunting, and I don't like the idea of someone shooting while we're in the forest. This evening the captive chick experiment came to an abrupt and tragic end when we came back from dinner to find "Pilot" dead and covered in ants. They were already well on the way to eating him, & had apparently killed him for that purpose. The culprits were the small, painful black ants that have a nest outside our door. Pilot had eaten well all day, including about 1/4 of a film canister of Miconia berries after lunch and two Euphorb seeds with amils. I also fed him one spider that I found near SW3. So getting captive chicks to eat is no problem - defending them from ants seems more tricky.