Field notes, v1306
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Greene, H. 1986 2 January the cloaca was prolapsed and it expelled a thick (continued) yellow liquid. I didn't detect any odor. Walked to CES 700 m, and spent ~10 minutes at ~CES 550m searching the area where I saw two Lachesis muta in July 1987. Lastly, went to ~250mSoc and back by ~1130 hr. At 1855 hr. Collin Nichols-Onions led me to a large leptodeira annulata crawling slowly up cobbles under a wheelbarrow ramp to the north end of the Rio Puerto Viejo bridge (~635+158mm, 109g). When seized, she crawled rapidly and released a very foul smelling liquid from the cloaca. Carmen and I walked to CES 700 m from 1930-1830hr but saw nothing - a dry, bright moonlit night. 3 January From ~0830-1100 hr Carmen and I walked out the CES, LOC, Sendero El Atajo, and down to the Rio Sarapiqui. I found an old lutia longicaudus scat on the rock I've often seen then on before, and the end of the Sendero Riberano. This scat contained large fish scales and parts of crustacean exoskeleton. On the porch of a casita at the origin of Sendero El Beije I found an old dry and a very fresh small cat scats, possibly Felis pardalis. Maria Marta Garania uses this house to sleep in when she collects butterflies, and tells me a cat often defecates there. At 1312 hr. I found a juvenile