Pearson 1987 Sestodolphis Oct. 26 grabbed it, and killed it. Once again, the captors were too fast to follow with the eye, but then it was dragging the prey with all 4 feet, the Sesto head up to the surface head. The animal was completely dead within a few seconds. #7410 began to eat at the nose and ate with top concentration until 10:10, at which time it had eaten everything back to its front legs. Then it groomed face & front paws, then ate more back through the thorax, heart & lungs until 10:15, then it groomed some more and went off sleeping. At 8 in the morning the only loop over was the terminal 3/4 of its tail. Three "native" men at the gasoline station in Sonoma had never seen Sesto before and didn't know what to call it. One thought maybe it was a baby opossum, Nor did 2 pre-teen aged boys in Comallo know what it was. On the night of Oct. 25-26, we returned to the capture site and set 30 traps at 21 sites where there were good tree tunnels, including the two where we caught #7409 & #7410. Caught nothing whatever. The captors did not catch other species of the big black desert beetle. Oct. 27 Both captives at Strawberry Farm. One ate dry cat food pellets, raw beef steak, and hamburger.