Field notes, v1308
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Greene, H. 1997 May 30 We eat at 0800, 1400 and 2300 hrs! This morning after breakfast hunters start bringing in insects, snakes, lizards, and two brush-tailed possums (Atherurus we later ate the meat very tasty). We walk out narrow path to run on ridge protruding from the left and out to the south. Kelly finds Microhyler under rock at 1030hr, 925m, and Ted a Philantus. We walked down long staircase to pool below big waterfall visible from hotel at. 805m (hotel is at 850m), passing women w/ little sheds selling cold drinks and stuffed tree shrews and ferret bodgers. Kelly and I went to the next pond at upper end of valley edge of town, and caught a juvenile Sinonatrix triangularis among several seen protruding from rock wall at water edge (93m). May 31 We are spending morning processing snakes from hunters. This morning's highlight was a gravid Xenopeltis unicolor from which I palped a rat, swallowed head-first. The Russians gave us a couple of dozen Trimeresurus of 3 species, from which we took live measurements to eventually look at ecomorphological relationships among