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Here, H.
1990
June 23 (continued)
seized. At 2120 hrs, 150 CES, Dave spotted an
Iwamotodes cenchoa (11.1g, 575+191mm) in leaves beside
the trail. At 2155hrs I saw an adult Leptodeira
septentrionalis at >3m above water, in a tree in the Sendero
Cantarana swamp, crawling slowly, moving the head
laterally on the limb surface and tongue flicking.
June 24
This afternoon Dave and Billie Hardy and I walked out the CES,
SAT, and Sendero Rikeseño to the holly car across the
Rio Sarapiguí, then back via SJV and SOC. At 1415hrs
near the beginning of Sendero Alto we startled a juvenile
♀ Bothrops asper in the trail - she had an aberrant
striped pattern which Dave photographed, and seemed
thin.
June 25
Today I lead three orientation walks for the O.T.S.
tropical biology course - the first around the loop
trail (CCC & CCL) and each of the others out
SOR to ≈ Holdidge 600m. Saw no snakes.
June 26
Dave and Billie and I walked out SOR to Holdidge,
then over the Sendero El Swampo and back via
Carroiro Central and CCL. There was a hard rain
during and after breakfast, so the strong cat
urine smell at SUA 190m had to be fresh at
1020 hrs. At 1030hrs, SUA 350m, I found
a very fresh large cat scat. Shortly,
thereafter we found Panthera onca tracks in
mud between the trail and stream ≈ 500 m
on SUA. There were two sizes of tracks: