Field notes, v1305
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1983 7 February (continued) When I first saw it, and disappeared in ground cover before I could catch it. Rhadinaea guentheri? Went to ~300m on Hartshorn Trail (via Camino Circular Lejano) to where Doug Grey (U. Wisconsin) had flagged some scat - very black and granular and not recognizable to me, so not saved. Next checked hachesis sight and walked through swamp, then back by Holdridge Trail. Rodolfo Peralta brought me a beautiful green Bothrops schlegelii he found in Plot III. The snake was in a tangle of vines and a palm, Cyasophila albidia, about 1.7m above the ground. He was cutting through the forest, and when he chopped the vine the snake fell to the ground. Luis Fernando Condes saw a large Chironius near the bridge at ~LOC 50, but no new cat scats on the Vargas Property trail. Victor brought a young Agouti paca that Sharon Hestman (U. Wisconsin) is caring for. The animal doesn't bite, but has an astoundingly loud and ferocious sounding growl! Later in the evening Sharon was walking across the bridge over the Suria on her way to the AC lab and saw a Felis yaguarundi stalking a Proechimys at the end of the bridge.