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Journal
4.6 Km W Puerto Limon, Prov. Limon Costa Rica.
30 July For a short while we entertained ideas about heading
toward Cahuita to the south. But the road is gravel
and everything aside it is cultivated no forest.
Instead we found this locality west of Limon secondary
(perhaps tertiary) forest, well developed understory,
Overstory project 40-60%. Rolling hills w/ slopes on
10% grade. Pleasant enough except for the bees
and ants. leaf-cutting ants are in incredible
abundance we set 180 traps here. I also set
up 2 bat nets - one large, one small.
930pm arrived back on site to unfold the bat nets.
10pm In half an hour we netted nearly 10 Artibeus, and
another unknown phyllostomid. 8 specimens were
bagged (live) and the rest released. This was in the short
(15') net. The large net (35') was left overnight.
At the time of our departure at 1030pm there were
no captures in this net.
31 July Returned this am at 7, found Desmodus, Artibeus &
several unknown genera in the nets. Only one
Desmodus. Probably 15 Artibeus. Four of the large bat
of very long more leaves. Roughly half were released.
Total count of bats kept can be obtained from the catalogue.
The rodent catch from this locality was 9 Heteromys
desmarestianus, 2 Oryzomy sp., 4 Nectomys (?)
1130am pack up & head west for San Jose.