Field notes, v1306
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Greene, K. 1987 16 December (continued) at SOR 830m, ~80m past the big "bat tree" Diplax that Feyner Godivas encountered last inlet. He saw her alert and coiled out on the trail, whereas now she is in a tight coil under surface green vegetation just off the cleared trail and a few cm from a small tree. There is a large treefall ~3m away. The head is down and in (see photos), more like is typical of Lachesis. I returned in a rain at ~2030h w/ Carol Farneti of Partidge Films, and found the snake out "hunting," about 25 cm from the base of the small tree and in the cleared trail, facing the boardwalk. Alert - turned and tongue-flicked when in light. At 2048h, as we returned over the same route, I found a ~1.3m Bothrops asper at SOR 220m. The snake was in a moderately tight coil, w/ head and neck in S-coil pointed at the boardwalk. Caught a gravid P Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri near the lab in wet grass after darks (SV45 mm, 6.5g). 17 December Walked out SOR and around the CCC-CCN loop w/ Carol. Missed a small adult Mastigodryas melanolomus as it dashed off the trail at ~CCL 700, 0919h. I slammed my left forearm onto a spiny palm trying to catch it. Couldn't find either Bothrops asper from last night on the SOR. At 1514h I found a Leptophis ahaetulla lying motionless on the cement floor under my cabina (♀ 820+515mm, 66.5g)