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Greene, H.
1987
16 July coiled up against the overhanging edge of an (continued)
old fallen tree and very near a stilt palm as well as several Welfia. I touched it lightly and it flinched, so seems OK. Partly cloudy and sunny until approx 3pm, then intermittent rain into the PM. After dinner Dave, Ian, Feyrer Godinaros (just arrived from Santa Cruz) and I went out to CCC 700 to check the Lachesis muter, then back and out the SOR to the concrete bridge. Much of the time a light rain was falling. Walking in and out the CCC, we saw at least 5 Potos flavus in canopy trees - our attention was drawn to them by croaking sounds (branches breaking?) and we got good views of them locomoting. Twice they were in pairs. The bush-master was not under the fallen tree, and we spent approx 15 minutes in the vicinity without finding it periodically I wondered, especially when bending to peer at some spot and thus unable to watch around me, what it would feel like to be bitten by surprise by that big snake! On the way back on CCC (approx 400?) Feyrer spotted a small adult Dasypus novemcinctus under the boardwalks, frozen at our approach but w/ its tail exposed. He managed to catch it, and we observed an open maggot infested hole (jagged, approx 20-25mm diam)