Field notes, v1306
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Greene, H. 1987 1 December Absolutely cloudless blue sky as I walked over to breakfast. The big orange Iguana was still suspended (precariously?) vertically on a branch w/ heavy foliage. The adult ? Bothrops asper was under the log (site 3) at 1045 hrs. Between 0700-0800 hrs an adult Meynii alleni was found near the Comedor/Reception building on the north side of the river. This snake died morning of 2 December 1987, with palpable evidence of broken back, preserved, HWG 17007. Checked Bothrops asper F after breakfast and after dinner and she was under the log (site #3) both times. Going to lunch I noticed that there are two orange iguanas in the tree, the one mentioned earlier identifiable by its slightly regenerated tail tip -- the other is really large. From ~1315-1700 hrs walked with Rebecca Butterfield and her husband David to the Rio Peije and up it for a few hundred meters. We saw numerous tracks of small felids, and I collected 6 scats, most or all of a large felid -- these varied in age from 1 very fresh to very old. They showed me where twice in one day they saw an adult Caiman crocodilus and her young together. This was at the bridge over a little stream that crosses the Sendero El Atajo. Both times, she F slid in and swam upstream then waited, while the ~30 youngsters scattered among vegetation downstream. At ~1630 hrs