Field notes, v1308
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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: ?,