Field notes, v1307
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Freese, H. 1996 March 26 (continued) like an old gap, w/old follow large [zarche], leaves of dried palm leaves, etc. Lot of vine tangles. I found her in a flat compact coil against a small (~several cm φ) tree and its small buttresses, I was almost on top of her and her head was pointing at me -- this was ~3/45 hr whereas when I returned at ~1530 w/ Alejandro Sloyaro she was facing W., perhaps in the latter posture she would intercept something passing from either direction between the two trees, whereas the first time I approached she had perceived me and was waiting? Second time there was a slight head movement once or twice as we (including Wolfgang Wiiste -- recent PhD on Naja under Roger Thorpe at Aberdeen) stood a few meters away. At ~1700 h we saw an adult Eira barbara near the Clarks' house, carrying a large fruit in its mouth and moving away into the forest edge. As I came back across the bridge at ~1915h, Joanna Burger (Rutgers U.) showed me a coendron rapidly coming down the upper bridge cable (it was so agile I at first thought it was Calucomys); then puresoespin then descended an adjacent sapling into riverbank vegetation. I could clearly see its prehensile tail in action, twisted (not curled - except maybe most distally) around limbs. ~200 h Alejandro Sloyaro caught an adult ♀ Enulus selateri (shelled eggs visible - ≥3), 12g, 285+173 mm.