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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,