Field notes, v1306
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Greene, H. 1987 17 December (continued) To "Rafael's House" on the SOR, spotted an adult Leptodactylus pentadactylus. When we stepped closer, I could see something bloody protruding ~30 cm from it's mouth - and for a moment I thought about the possibility I had somehow stepped on it and this was the tongue, yet how could it be so long? At that point the frog began regurgitating, and as I seized the prey it finished vomiting and hopped out of sight. The dead prey was a ? Imantodes cenchoa (605+291mm, 19g, HWG-1705), with at least one spinal fracture and a large piece of skin ripped at midbody and intestine protruding vertically. The snake seemed dead, but most of its tail was coiled tightly around a stick ~20x2 cm - probably the only reason the frog hadn't already swallowed it when we arrived. At 2039h I met an adult ? Bothrops asper crawling down the muddy trail by the big Diplenyzs tree at SOR 750m. She froze briefly in the light, crawled another few meters down slope, then turned W into the forest. All crawling was rectilinear w/ the body almost straight, and the snout was frequently tipped downward as she tongue-flicked the litter. I held my snakestick over and parallel to the snake, and hardly estimated total length at 1.7 - 1.8 m. Because of apparently greater girth, I don't