Greene, H. 1984 24 June (continued) the long axis of the log, its ears and legs flopped down the sides and large jogged split with its floated sides. It's not hard to see how tropical writers like Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa drift so easily into the surreal! At 2044 hr ch 2 was apparently in the same area; 22/30. At 2053 hr, ch 5 was in the same place w/ its head facing E; 24/30. At 2109 hr, George Schatz showed me a gravid female Leptodeira septentrionalis, coiled on dirt with its head resting against the sidewalk to the bathhouse. 25 June At 0700 we examined the Leptosis which turned out to be a mole and, since it was caught in the Reserve, was therefore not radiostaged. Snake has SV 188 cm, tail 18.5 cm, and therefore a total length of ~2.1 m. It had patches of dry skin, apparently about to shed, and at least 9 large gorged ticks (2 on head, rest scattered on either side of mid-dorsal ridge). Throughout our restraint of the snake it tried to flex, but no problems. We were assisted by Ann Brooke, Ana Gonz, Debbie Clark, and Sarah Lieberman. At ~0900 hr we failed to find the signal of Bothrops asper ch 2, as did Manuel over a 2 hour period later in the morning. Perhaps it washed or swam away when the river rose yesterday. At 0914 hr ch 5 was in the same place with head pointing S; 24/30. When Manuel checked this