Field notes, v1308
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Greene, H. 1991 July 18 (continued) neonate Spilotes pullatus on the chain next to him! Ronald Suarez will later send me a photo of a Spilotes (or Pseustes?) seen earlier this year said to be a bird's nest near the corridor. Orlando Vargas showed me a color print photo of a Clelia clelia eating an adult Bothrops asper, taken by Jauzie McHarque. July 19 at 0200h Mark, an undergraduate from U. Oklahoma working for Ola Finke, showed me an adult Lachesis muta at CCC 125 m. Mark and a British woman woke me (a surprise!) after encountering the snake when they came in from checking tree holes for damsel flies. The snake looked like a small adult, probably ~1.6m total length. It was ~30 cm from the boardwalks on the cleared trail on a slope, coiled tightly, round, ~3 complete rings of body loops w/ head up on them in an about S-coil and facing downslope parallel to the boardwalks. 1 Head and foreparts parallel to the ground. I returned ~ 0630h and couldn't find the snake. Yesterday Devin Graham (U. Miami) saw a collared forest falcon (Micrastur torquatus) fly up in one of his plots, and w/in 30 min. found a 1/2 eaten 1/2 grown agouti on an elevated fallen tree trunk - head & foreparts gone, entrails removed through the front, no smell and few flies. Last year Devin and Emmott Blankership (Auburn U.) saw a large snake they thought was clelia clelia eating a young armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus! I wonder if it was a Dynarodon