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Mustang, Meika A. 1993
Journal 50
Est. Biol de Canat'inga - M6
researchers. There are a few resident researchers
at present, collecting data for a study of the
muriqui's diet. Visiting researchers pay
US $ 5.00 per day per person for lodging,
including all meals. The place is worth
visiting, the monkeys are quite tame and
therefore easy to observe, because they have
been studied for many years.
We set up trap, as our standard procedure.
Jairo Vieira Gomes, the caretaker of the station,
showed us around the area. On the first
night we caught 7 Mamosops ! 5 males, all
with adult "scapular" pelage, and 2 female,
also with adult "short" pelage and visible
mammae. We also caught Proechimys and
a couple of Didelphis (female, w/ young in the
pouch, quite developed, tails visible from the
outside). On the second night a Nasua
coati-mundi', probably messed up all
our traps ! Since we had already enough
individuals of Mamosops we let go decided
to take out the traps. Trapping effort was
then of just 2 nights (120 x 2 = 240 trapnights),
significantly affected by the Nasua attack.
On the 2nd night we also caught 2 teiws
(lizard, terrestrial Tropidurus) and a
bird (Xiphocolaptes albicolis, white-throated