Green, H. 1987 9 June sunny, partly cloudy, hot by mid-morning. Walked out to 225 Holdidge, and found the Bothrops asper still in dense vegetation, just off the path next to the successional plot ('S' on previous page). I gently lifted a blade of grass for a better look, and the snake moved its head slightly. Judging from Blejaro de Solizano's data, this is too early to be a spent female - so I wonder why she is doing so poorly? If, for whatever reason, she is starving, it is an interesting counterpoint to my notion of large vipers as not generally having intense energy problems. At 09:45h checked the Bothrops mutus at CES 530, and found it under the Danacra fern - and not, today, seeming impressively fullsome. W.r.spect to Leptodeira annulata, I was thinking this morning about the fact that it is a stocky spotted snake, yet repeatedly tried to escape by crawling - a contradiction to Jackson et al.? The point is, it didn't escape that way, whereas a striped or unicolor Mastigodyas would likely have succeeded. Just after lunch (12:40h) I was summoned that there was a large snake on the bridge - ran over to see a Spilotes pullatus descending slowly a Cecropia tree, so I hung over the edge and grabbed it by the posterior.