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Greene, H.
1990
December 10 (continued) San Jose and here, and all day a strange light rain has fallen. Walking back from dinner, I followed a Tamandua from 1/2 way to the southern end, where it dropped off and almost immediately dug a shallow hole in grass x size of 1/2 its head and for > 1 minute ate some tiny colonial insect - I couldn't see for sure if ants or termites tho from vague appearance I suspect the former. The insects were swarming over its head while the anteater lay on its chest, forelegs extended flat on either side of the excavation, and I could see head muscles pumping rapidly. Never saw any indication the animal was aware of me or my flashlight (I have seen them feeding directly here before too). Walked to far end of Cantarana boardwalk and back to big lot clearing - saw only 1 Rana palmipes and heard a few Hyla, all of this x 1900-1925 hrs. Went back between x 2000-2200 hrs, searching the Cantarana Swamp and returning via SOR. We saw only another Rana palmipes on the leaf floating in the swamp, and heard scattered Hyla. One adult (cf. male) Agalychnis callidryas was alert on a small branch x 4 m above the E. end of the boardwalk. On the SOR we saw a juvenile Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri on a leaf x 30 cm above ground; a juvenile Hyla elaeochroa on a leaf x 1 m above ground; and a large (cf. female) A. callidryas on a large palm leaf x 5 m above ground - alert, as if scanning for insects or about to jump (which it didn't over a period of x 2-3 minutes. Just as we