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Grease, H.
1992
August 2
(continued)
The ridge is level but S. of where he was yesterday (he
was crawling this direction then). Moving within 3m we
saw he was lying over a ? whose tail ran down into
the hole -- almost immediately he made 3 quick
jerks of his snout against her posterior, pointing
toward her cloaca. They were in fright sun and it
was getting hot. At 1012h the male crawled a
few cm into the hole and froze. At 1018h he
disappeared into the hole, leaving her in an
irregular open coil w/ head facing back toward it
a few cm in front of its entrance. At 1026h
the ? started to crawl; the male's head and neck
emerged immediately, then turned to parallel
her neck and they both crawled back toward
the entrance. I seized and pulled her out
of a clump stick, he rattled and quickly retreated
out of site. We took notes and started to leave.
At 1038h saw the male out in the grass, continuously
tongue-flicking and crawl a ~ 3-5m circle
slowly, turning his snout down occasionally, and
always tongue-flicking. (We implanted her this
afternoon as #14, frog 8060, 860+45mm, 470g,
7 segments, parallel and incomplete). After lunch
and the implant surgery, I processed 3 Crotalus
molossus Tony Sorel and Barney Torberlin found in
Guadalupe Canyon, Peloncillo Mtns., Hidalgo Co.,
New Mexico. Two were found on July 26th: ?,