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Freeze, It.
1989
July 13 swallowed head-first. At dinner Rodolfo Revolto gave
(continued) me an Erythrolamprus poiesis (20.5 g, 364+/-1/4+/-?.mm)
he found this afternoon near the lab cleaning. The snake
crawls frantically, and when restrained elevates the
curled tail, then pokes the hand w/ it. During repeated
restraint for [illegible] photography it did not attempt to bite.
The tail seems recently cut off. After dinner, Ardell,
Silvia Barahona (U.C.R.) and I walked to CES 700 and saw
only a large Azlyochmis callidryas walking on a
slender (~5 mm) branch of vine, ~3 m above the
ground - its blue and yellow flank strips and red
eyes very evident in my light beam. David and Billie
Hard walked to ~700 m on the CCC and both
through the Cartarara Swamp. They saw a ~4 ft.
Bothrops asper coiled beside the trail at CCC 440m
- it remained still during a couple of minutes of
photography, then crawled into the forest. They
brought in a Seplodeia septentrionalis from the
Cartarara Swamp (25g, 530+/-195 mm). Found the
Lachesis muta in same place, head not up and
dart, at ~2130h. At x~2200 h an undergrad.
from U. Florida (Marcie) showed me a