Argentina field notes, v1528
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Pearson 1987 54 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 #7409