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Transcription
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