Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 December 10 (continued) reached the station, a small Dasypus novemcinctus jumped at Melissa's approach, then careened off into the underbrush. Several people have noted that the weather now is unusually cold—Jack Ewell (Botany, U. Florida) says it's the coldest he's experienced here, beginning in 1964! December 11 Up for breakfast after a pretty good night's sleep (among the very few since returning from Uganda), then laid down and slept til after 1000 hr. Blake & Melissa walked around the CES and CEN, saw Dendrobates, Dasypus, Dasypus aguti. Drizzles off and on all morning and a shower after lunch. The iguana breeding season is on: can easily see several big orange males from the bridge—though they have a look of sad stranded ectotherms in this weather! From ≈1400-1630 hr Blake, Melissa, & I walked SOR, SHO, SUA, CC, CCL, SOR—all the while in a cool drizzle that twice got strong enough we donned panchos. No cat tracks. At ≈400m on the Sendero El Sumpo Melissa saw a Kinosternon leucostomum adult dive into the bottom of a ≈15cm deep trickle of a stream, taking refuge under a dead leaf in a cloud of mud. When I held the turtle it alternated drawing in and closing the plastron w/ reaching out the head and snapping at my fingers. When released at the surface it repeated the disappearance into a cloud of bottom mud. From ≈1945-2145 hr walked w/ Blake, Melissa, and Daria (physician from