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Greene, H.
1987
29 November As we headed for the CES, I dropped in the back
(continued) door of the "new lab" to tell Jenny Korner about
the spiders, was in there < 2 minutes, and
when I came out ran right into an adult ♀
Bothrops asper crawling across the door mat by
the boot rack! Hooked her onto the smooth
parch, then required ≈10 minutes to get her
into a trash can. She changed directions
rapidly, often sliding a body length or more
in an instant. At least once she
crawled more than a meter at me.
Several times she advanced up my book,
and once I had to drop it. Never vibrated
the tail, never gaped, and never struck.
Always seemed very alert, nervous, ready
to go at me. At 2150 I failed for the
second night in a row to locate the huge ♀
B. asper on CES.
30 November At ≈0710 I spotted the big Bothrops asper,
coiled under the fallen log, less than 1 m
from her site 2. She was also there at
1400hr (head has changed position), 1650hr, and
1945hr. Between ≈1100-1200 I photographed
Iguanas in a tree by the N. end of
the bridge, a big orange ♂ basking and
occasionally head-nodding on a large
branch, and a smaller (but larger than