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Pearson
1987
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Seetodolphyse
Oct. 24 15 km SE. Sao Menease, Rio Negro. Habitat
a high diversity of thorny busher plus Barrea, light
sandy soil, plus rocky outcrops nearby. Zoo
journal. A complete trap line caught 2 Seetodolphys
in the only 2 steel traps set in two burrows.
Both traps were at edge of those holes, 40 m., apart,
about 100 m from the nearest rocks.
Both animals were caught by neck and by
hindquarters (or base of tail) and were torpid, but
they warmed up in about a half-hour in the heat
of my hands. The only other animals caught in
the trap lines were 2 Rattledown and a hispid Abdon.
When they warmed up, apparently undamaged,
I was impressed at the quickness of their movements.
One of them made a bird-like churr sound.
One of them got out of its 14-inch deep plastic
bucket during the night (in the car) and had to be
Oct. 25 re-captured. One of them ate all of the desiccated,
shinned carcass of the 26-g Abdon and the other
ate most of the decapitated shinned carcass of
the 79-g Rattledown. One of them ate strawberry
jam eagerly. Neither touched their apple, cheese,
or peanut butter.
Oct. 26
Put them into different plastic terraria at home
than supplies each with a live Elgiprodonta at
about 9:20 p.m. The Elgiprodonta and gerbils
practically when they came into contact with the
Seetodolphys, but the Seetodolphys did not hunt it but a couple
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