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Heene, H.
1985
18 April (continued)
but Claudio found Uta, a Saurorabus, and a little Gopherus [see below too] (carapace 90 mm, 170g [after copious defecation and urination], 3 growth annuli, suggest born season of 1981). The tortoise was head-in to a cavity in lava, and several meters out onto the flow from hard pan. After dinner, we roadtripped from 1910-2000 and ~2100-2330h, including ~5 trips over the usual 2 mi stretch and one trip to Judlow for desert. At 2110h, 0.8 mi E of the PR traicho, got an HOJ juvenile Agrona elagans. Saw numerous Dipodops and a few Lepus on the road. Forgot to mention earlier that when we removed the Gopherus it elevated the posterior carapace by extending hind legs, hissed, and snapped when I poked its front legs with my finger.
19 April
Sunny and windy at dawn. Saw a Uta active at 0708 h. Worked around trails 'til ~1000h, then drove out to Nall. Trails thru W. a few miles, and S for ~6 miles on a good dirt road used by Ken Noris for his transect here. Warm and sunny. We saw >=6 Saurorabus, including one huge O; 1 Chrosaurus; 1 Gorbelia (basking on a short charred log!); numerous small Callisaurus; lots of Uta, mostly F& gravid; and a few Cnemidophorus. We went ~75-100' down a mine shaft, near a fin shed in the lava ad visible from the road (Noris' "Pisoah Hilton")