Alaska field journal and species accounts, v4466
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Journal June 13 1962 Pt. Barrow, Alaska. Temperature at 0900 was 49°F; clear day and no wind. By night, cooled off to thirties. Spent all day arranging animal colony w/Dave Muller. Set up shelves and arranged the animals. Did not get into the field today. While pulling grass for lemmings, noticed Dupontia fischeri becoming greener. Small clumps of very green moss present. on rhizomes of some grasses were many annelids. A few lemmings had died; some from the stress of overcrowding and handling, others from a type of cannibalism where one lemming tries to sip the tears of another for the water content and accidentally nips him. After several nips by the others, the cannibalism is border way for the water, not the fleshly course. ARRANGEMENT OF COLONY (Floor Plan) WINDOW F F F F F F F F F TABLE thermograph scale H2O JUG BOARD FOR HOLDING INDIVIDUAL CAGE Q heater Sawdust barrel TRASH Barrel B19 CAGE Door BIG CAGES