Argentina field notes, v1527
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(5 seconds) Secondly. Several times he hopped towards me, only 2 to 3 feet away. Almost all our observing was at 6 to 12 feet distance. He completely ignored labours screaming and from oral scratching (and our conversations). He could be identified by a small pole effect on his right side/shoulder. Once he squatted fleetingly as he crossed a bare patch. I did not see him separate at any time. At 11:55 he crossed diagonally the open turf area, took only a few minutes but never ran continuously more than maybe 50 yards. At 12:22 he left the cattered brush/grass/scrub and headed leisurely out into the open turf. At 12:25 he picked up in his teeth what looked like a piece of bone about 10 x 60 mm, and ran directly with it to a solitary hole in the turf and went down the hole with the bone. This was the only thing he did in 2 1/2 hours. It could not be classified under "snoop and mill". He never seemed to take advantage of shelter, no dashing furiously from bush to bush, no freezing timorously in response to noises. In the morning we looked around the hole into which he disappeared - a typical simple round R hole with few (or no?) R droppings. Within 2 or 3 yards we found a white hair dropping of hare hair, a few pieces of old weathered branches of poplar/white birch, and a few fragments of sheep or hare bone. He could have picked