Argentina field notes, v1526
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Pearson 1984 75 Raithredon (cont.) 1 dropping per mouse every 6 minutes. They also ate some clover and a dandelion head. Air-dried for 24 hrs. the dropping weighed 14.8 g. Volume 30 cc. nov.13 at 9 a.m. each of the 2 caged animals weighed 25 g. ate dandelion, not unwedled carrot. Produced 788 droppings = 52 cc. volume which weighed (dry) 8.3 g. They ate g of green grass, clover, & dandelion greens ( 4.8 g. of air-dried droppings when soaked in water for 3 hours (swelled like finely cut grass) and super-dried by rolling on newspaper weighed 18.7 g = 3.9 X nov.14 2 captives produced 899 pellets (green grass, clover, + dandelion; mostly grass) win 24 hours. They ate 62.3 g. of greens (corrected for drying out by using a control cage), more than their own weight! The 899 fecal pellets when dried weighed 9.1 g; x 3.9 = 35.5 g fresh. Volume 58 cc (dry, in 25 cc product) At dusk put Ganso Edam cheese, prune, and dulce de membrilla into their cage (+greens). One of the mice immediately ate cheese. Also butter, reticates right away. nov.15 Pt. loup. is a 8 and weighed 29 g. Pt shoulder a q weighed 29 go ate no prune, no dulce de membrillo, most of cheese, butter maybe. Fresh green grass (141g) when dried for 3 days weighed 35 g. nov.16 Newspaper on floor of cage soaked up 5 g of urine, ate no nano. The two mice ate 62.3 g of fresh green grass, clover,