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Pearson
1987
Chelomy
abr.2q - Refeção Neumeyer. 73 live trofa in leega/
acmausay/ berberis percei caught 13 aba longi and
6 Chelomy. Lots of digging along fallen logs,
Excavated 0.5m² of leega/acmausay (Berberis percei
and found 280g of succulent acmausay rhizomes.
after 30 - One captive tested ate very little if any apple and
oats, didn't touch cheese, or rosa mosqueta fruit,
eat an acmausay rhizome a few times but ate
less than 10g of it [it] lost 10g of weight; best much
of this was probably evaporation.
may 1
3 Captives overnight :
#2 ate apple, maybe oats, not acmausay, not rosa
#1 ate apple, maybe oats, some acmausay, not rosa, not dog
#3 no apple
may 2 #2 acmausay rhizomes + seeds not eaten. no rosa. apple up
#1 rhizome partly eaten, acmausay seed/pods squashed
open but no seeds eaten (as far as could find). Rosa
fruit opened but seeds not extracted from fruit,
#3, acmausay seeds not eaten , rhizome ground through,
apple eaten
may 3 #3 ate apple, little if any acmausay rhizome,
#2 " " " " " " " "
#1 " " " " " " " " , also
ate the end off of one of the two rosa fruits; did
not eat the rosa seeds.
Body temps at 1:30 pm quiet : 36.5°, 8 36.5°, 8 37.4°