Greene, H. 1991 July 11 darkness, which lasted only 3-4 minutes, leaves on a (continued) Pentaclethra seemed to partially close. At the canopas, toucans and parrots flew over as at dusk, then flew back a few minutes later w/ returning light. The sky was heavily overcast during most of the eclipse, but clouds parted in just the right place at just the right time to give us a fantastic view of max. eclips - a dark ball surrounded by fiery corona. The darkness seemed to come on in increments rather than smoothly, and at max seemed to me like 8/5 hrs here normally - almost too dark to see anything w/out a light. At the moment of total eclipse and our views of it, spontaneous yelps came out of our group - and Wendy and I talked about how such things must affect aboriginal people, perhaps not entirely unrelated: tonight we watched a video cassette Arnold Mitchell brought down of a recent David Attenborough nature series, w/ two especially stunning sequences. Orcas beaching in Argentina to catch sea lions, then tossing them around in the sea. Chimps gang up to slap, kill, and eat a red colobus monkey - then the troop empty in a screaming frenzy. Hard to avoid a connection w/ humans. And later in the even E. D. Brodie III saw an ocelot (Felis pardalis) w/ a half eaten "large" or rabbit? prey - perhaps paca?