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Greene, H.
1984
30 June (continued)
palpity we determined it is gravid. Rained off and on all day today, and at ~2200 hr I noticed that the Rio Puerto Viejo is higher than I've ever seen it and the Sura is flowing backward at a good clip.
1 July
At ~0945 hr Alejandro Solizano found an Erythrolamprus minus crawling in leaf litter beside the AC lab sidewalk in forest. It tried to bite him, and tail displayed (thrash, slight coil) and cloacal discharged (fairly foul) when I handled it. ~1000 hr M. Fozder saw a small adult Mastigodryas melanolomus make an unsuccessful dash at a small Anolis festiva in the successional plots; the snake missed the lizard by a few inches and did not pursue it. At 1400 hr we released the Lachesis muta Ch 1 at the capture site, at 1426 hr Bothrops asper Ch 5 was in the same place under the Dieffenbachia leaf; 27/30. At ~1500 hr B. asper Ch 2 was same; 25/30. Checked the h. muta Ch 1 at ~1530 hr; 27/30. At ~2130 hr Michael Fozder found a 2.08 m Lachesis muta at ~320 m on the CES, crawling. I looked it very gently and it never even formed an S-coil.
2 July
When I checked Bothrops asper Ch 5 at 0740 hr it was gone, and later learned that Manuel found it missing but a small scat and the