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but resembled a miniature monkey
more. It disappeared behind the log
immediately. I climbed up the incline
by carefully picking my footing at
last I was close enough to see
more distinctly and also within range
with my shot pistol. Sure enough
there were the Grizzly bats dodging into
the shadows trying their best to
evade the light. They hopped about
like so many monkeys using their
forearm as a quite efficient front leg.
I shot one from a really vertical rock
wall where it supported itself by the
forearms out in front, another was shot
on a horizontal rock shelf and the other
two were shot near the log chunk.
September 29, 1925-
clear morning rain in afternoon
and evening. Worked on bats
collected day before.
September 30, 1925- Weather
conditions the same- worked
on bats which were held in
captivity. Mr. van Rossem
reported a doe and a fawn which
he saw in the edge of the
carbon forest. Our motor shot
two more cottontails at the edge of
a grassy pasture through which
a stream ran. He said they were
quite common there.
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