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Greene, H.
1984
22 june (continued)
returned at 03245 hrs snake had moved. Finally located a very strong signal in high grass on a slope just NW of the dock stairs, off the edge of the terrace the house is on. The snake had thus moved several tens of meters to the ENE. We did not persevere in visually locating the snake because of the difficulty of seeing it. While we stood as close as we got, Manuel noticed a Sylvilagus oread ~3m away, frozen. Despite our noise, light and movements this rabbit remained stationary. Was it aware of the Terriopelt or us? At 2345 hrs we located the larger ? B. asper (Ch 5), now several meters SW of the Welfia frond and up the slope of a hillock. She was in a flat coil (couldn't see her well) on a slope that faced away from the stream; 27/30. At 2104 hrs, as we initially went out to locate the two Bottrop's, we encountered a massive Lachesis muta crossing the trail at SOR 100m. Manuel was in front and suddenly exclaimed something, then went from talking extremely fast in Spanish to sputtering. I thought he saw a jaguar and I stepped to the left of the boardwalk to get a look. Maybe 20m ahead, clearly illuminated was the body and tail of an apparently huge bushmaster. The tail and posterior hung off the left of the boardwalk, and the body extended