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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