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another hour with no success, on the way back,
for breakfast I stopped by the missionaries and
he asked some of the men there if they knew
of "niƱos dormidos" the local term, some did but
most of these had only ever seen a few. The species
here is described as black with white or
grey striped or lines, this sounds different than
anything I've so far encountered.
After breakfast I headed up the blue
road back to the house where I'd seen mammal
hides before. I found the owner and after a
bit of bargaining bought two large hides for
$2.50 (for both), and a small squirrel skin was
thrown in for good measure. There was on the
two hides I bought appear to be grey fox,
and coati, they are somewhat stiff but have been
tanned. I was told that "gordo", fat, was used. There
was a third skin there, of a stocky animal about
coati size with larger claws, and a very thick
skin which was only dried and was very stiff, it
had a definite pattern of dark on light on the
neck, and may be some sort of ant-eater or something
I don't knows.
I then went down to a finca "Rancho Sinaloa"
where I was told that there were sometimes one or