Field notes, v1308
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Freere, H. 1991 July 14 (continued) Chelydra serpentina walking slowly on the bottom in shallow water at the edge of Quelzada El Salto under the cement bridge. After dark David Hardy saw a Leptodeira septentrionalis eating Agalychnis saltator eggs on a moss covered vine in the Cantarana Swamp, at the site where we watched the breeding aggregation a few days ago. July 15 This morning I walked the Vertebrate transect w/ Ardell. Last night Wendy learned still another friend of hers has been injured in a climbing accident, probably mortally -- the third this year for her. At approx 1600h we went approx 100m off trail to the NE of the CES/CEN junction to see a peccary (Tajassu tajacu) wallow reported to us by David Clark. Several have been seen (wallowed) the past couple of years, an apparently new phenomenon at La Selva. Wendy found the spot, walked right to it w/ a compass bearing, and as I came up a peccary sped past a few meters from me -- a spray blur among the understory palms. The wallow is several shallow connected pools in a single large muddy depression, w/ peccary tracks everywhere and a strong odor of these animals. We saw no tadpoles. At 2130h I spotted an adult Inartodes inornatus perched on a moss covered branch of a sapling, approx 2.5 m above the entrance to the Cantarana at its west end -- right next to a low palm where twice (?) last December I saw this species on the palm leaves early in the evening. The snake was stationary, facing the tree trunk from approx 30 cm out, w/ neck straight for