Azara, H. 1984 11 July (continued) Socratea palm when chased. Resemblance to a Micrurus nigrocinctus was sufficient to cause Manuel to pin the snake w/ his foot. I palped a 3.85g ♂ Sphenomorphus chenieri, swallowed head first, out of the 43.5g ♂ Seaphiodontophis. By early afternoon the snake had died, tho why we don't know. Deborah Jetournan and Feyner Godino, friends from Berkeley, arrived. 12 July hot and sunny all day - we need rain. The forest is thirsty! at 0730hr Lachesis muta ch1 was in same place, head down; 23/30; air, 23C; ground, 24C. at 0804 hr Bothrops asper ch 4 was down behind the log, not in sun; 23/30; air 24C; ground, 24C. at 0843hr, B. asper ch 2 was still in hole w/ eyes very opaque; 23/30; air, 25.5 C; ground, 24.8C. 13 July at 0905 hr B. asper Ch 4 is immobile, partly coiled E of the burnilead on the log, w/ its posterior trailing through the green bromeliad leaves. Head faces ENE; 25/30. Discovred & broke the thermometer. a bright sunny morning! Took photos at 0910hr, only tail still up in bromeliad. at 0930hr the snake is same, but tail has come down into coil. 29/30. at 0947hr, as I watched the snake shifted a different, more posterior part of its body into direct sunlight, and stopped w/ its head facing SE. at 1000hr the snake is in same position, now mostly in shade; 32/30.