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Transcription
Greene, H.
1987
9 July (continued)
By the time I stood up it was chewing fiercely on my pants legs. Carried it back to the mesa hole to show students. Even when held by the head it readily tried to bite an approaching finger. When I released it on the ground it inflated the bulbous throat and inflated/vertically flattened the foreparts, and moved them to orient to a person moving nearby. At one point it turned and when I stood up seized the crotch of my jeans.
Much of the time I was handling it the snake rapidly vibrated the posterior 200-400 mm of tail. Although I only noticed one small blob of cloacal contents, it ejected a mildly strong and mildly offensive odor, which clung to my T-shirt for sometime hereafter.
This morning R.K. Colwell and a group of O.T.S. students were in the Ecological Reserve Swamp, on the Sendero Cantarana, when they observed a Leupetris semiplumbears fly off w/ an Agalychnis callidryas. This was during a dense daytime breeding aggregation of these frogs.
10 July
At 8:30h Gene Shoops found a small Bothrops schlegeli (413+70mm, 30g) coiled on a branch at the end of a small limb, ~2 in above damp mud on the W edge of the swamp in