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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