Field notes, v1308
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Here, H. 1992 August 11 (continued) lying on top of her, each loosely coiled. at this his tail coiled around hers (it straight) and she periodically shook them both - I could hear their rattles like dry seed pods in wind. at 0917h she darted in under the agave and he quickly overttook and coiled on her. Dave began videotaping and I left to locate the other snakes. at 0944h I found C. molossus ♀ #12 looking at the same site: photos of her in open hairspring w/ entire side of food lump in sun lump in shade, remainder under overhang in shade, same site as before. at 0956h C. molossus ♂ #13 is in a resting coil under brush in shade ~50m NE of Pole 1 and ~75m from yesterday. at 1015h I found C. molossus ♂ #3 in the same site as yesterday, in a loose coil in full sun front of rock wall above Silver Creek, head in shade. < .05m away a ♀ in coil among rocks facing out. I returned to join Dave, where the ♀ had crawled rapidly several meters W through bushes to edge of ravine, then N to base of juniper tree where at 1052h I captured her (no rattle). Dave had videotaped the ♂ searching for her w/out picking up a trail. At 1109h we captured the ♀ next to ♂ #3 (he by then had drawn into shade of the boulders) and she was an obvious food bulge. After lunch we processed & implanted the two new female C. molossus: : ♀#6 (found w/ C. molossus ♂#9) 865+49mm, 390g,