Freese, H. 1990 March 26 La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica Arrived here ~ 1045 hr on the OTS car. Left Berkeley on the 23rd and made to San Jose in one day on Pan Am. Spent that night w/ Pedro Jean and his family in Escazu, then moved to the Hotel Presidente for Saturday and Sunday. Sunday at 0715 hr was awakened by the 6th floor where I stayed swaying and rocking, a 5.8 quake that lasted long enough I was up and in the doorway. Ten minutes later, awakened again by a 6.9 quake, hard enough I was in jeans and down the stairs by the time it stopped. The Hotel Bolnoral across the street had a crack running down it's height, and many store windows broke. The epicenter was near Puntarenas, and I heard that several buildings and houses collapsed in that area. When we arrived here Ronald Suarez showed us his pet Gallictis, ~3 months old and very tame. Follows him comes when called, and plays without biting hard tho it has well developed teeth. David Wallace, a writer from Berkeley, agrees that in life it seems wolverine-like, something I never perceived from the literature or museum skins. When exploring, the grison's head is to the ground, and its