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D.A. Good
1987
Journal
Ulcán Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica
31 August down the roots came out of the bank, I fell into the streambed
with the tree on top of me and CF, who happened to be
standing exactly opposite looking at the frog I had given him
got clouted on the head by the tree. While recovering from
this mishap we heard another Centrolenella on the same bank
+ managed to reach the small sapling it was in with a
potato stake. I pulled the whole sapling out of the ground+
down the bank far enough to reach the frog. Also collected
along stream was a baby Bottineps lateralis.
Return to Casa Mengo ca. 1000 PM.
At approx. the summit of the trail (1270 m elev.), (F, who
was walking in front along the trail saw a cat on the trail
ahead, ca. 10 m away. A margay. It looked at us for
a while and, obviously not recognizing us until our headlights
on its eyes as people, it came closer. And closer. And closer.
Eventually, when it was ca. 1½ m away (i.e., almost standing
on CF’s feet), I said “what should we do?” The Margay then
ran off about 2 meters + sat + watched us some more. Eventually
it walked off the trail + disappeared downhill.
1-5 Sept:
Ulcán Cacao to San José, Costa Rica
Notes written 6 September. Not much worthy of
writing notes on for the last few days (this in part being an
excuse for laziness on my part). Spent 1 September
packing up our equipment for leaving Casa Mengo — did no
collecting that day. On 2 Sept. we left Casa Mengo