Field notes, v1305
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there, H. 1984 16 July using it. At 1405h Faynmers showed me a small (contined) (approx 40mm) Eleutherodactyls biporcatus that he found inside a dry, old fruit on the ground. He found it this morning amidst a column of army ants, undisturbed by them. George Schatz (U. Wisconsin) came by as we talked and identified the fruit as Passiflora arborea. At 1410h I saw the Bothrops asper ch 5 in a loose coil on the forest floor near where it was released, w/it's tail & posterior trailing outside the coil proper (because of injury ?); neck looked OK; 29/30. At 1435h B. asper ch 4 is on a branch pile approx 2m NE of it, "usual" site close to the berm lined. It is in shade in a fairly tight coil; bright sun and partly cloudy: 30/30. At approx 1655 Jonnie McTague (U. Miami) called me to a harpy-propellus triangularum she saw cross the CES at approx 50m and take refuge in dead leaves at the base of a small tree. When I seized it the snake thrashed, bit fiercely and repeatedly, and cloacal discharged. It had obviously eaten recently, and I palpated three Heteromys from it, all of which had been swallowed head first. The snake weighed 360g; SV, approx 97cm; tail, 17cm; sigma. The mice weighed 40, 30.5, and approx 29g. Wait to Puerto Viejo w/ Rodolfo and Anna Peralta