Greene, H. 1990 August 16 then turned and disappeared into a hole between a (continued) boulder and the top of the rot nest. When they left the pair were still copulating. Dave Hardy, Jünger, and I arrived x 1230 hr and found the pair still in copulo. We could not locate the smaller ♂ during a search of an area roughly x 10-15 m square around the woodrat nest. The ♀ lay in an open coil in shade under the edge of the nest and a small plant (possibly a juniper). The big male was loosely coiled up on the edge of the nest w/ his posterior hanging down to the ♀. Both were immobile. When I approached w/in less than a meter for photos, one or the other rattled briefly and both moved slightly. The male turned toward me but did not crawl. When we arrived they were in dappled sun, thanks to a position on the west side of a boulder and cleft, such that there was slight shade. By the time they separated at 1312 hr and we collected them, it was noticeably hotter, brighter, and they might have done so to escape increasing temperature. I crawled down in <0.5 m and Dave held the plant's strands of tongs - so our presence might have caused him to separate prematurely, but it is noteworthy that they largely ignored all the other attention. I watched