Alaska journal, v4429
Page 589
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MacLean 1966 23 August Barrow, Alaska Loaded the vessel for a full day trip, then drove into town with Tom to pick up Eona and Eurice. After stop along beach for sling-shot ammunition, drove our gasoline Racer to Voth Area. I brought along a Semi-pal with a broken wing and empty stomach to try a timeo feeding experiment. Released bird along pond edge. He showed interest in feeding, but was obviously acting abnormally. Killed it and pickled stomach after 30 minutes. Drove across Footprint lake and stopped by slo (well vegetated) polygons just west of lake. Spent an hour or so just digging up tundra, looking for tipulio larvae plus whatever else was there. Found larvae again in mossy hummocks. Also found adult Carabios down in the ground at 2 to 4 cm. These were dumped in distribution; 2 to 5 animals were found in close proximity where Carabios were found. This is probably a behavioral process, as there was no evident habitat feature which might cause dumping.