Field notes, v1308
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Ahearn, H. 1997 June 14 movements visible from our vantage on the (continued) bridge above. The frog has obvious dorsal wounds. at 2204 hr they abruptly drop beneath surface and disappear in water >1.5m deep, and for ~3 min we seen only occasional bubbles until they abruptly resurface w/in seconds separate, and they both swim away. Snake proceeds out of the square spillway area and toward the deep (wall) end of pond and I lose it. A few minutes later another but distinctly smaller snake swims through the spillway area, at first w/in 1m of frog, and then departs. I extend a long piece of bamboo to the frog, it climbs on and is captured. Maxwdee and Ted catched a Trimeresurus stejnegeri #WG-3119 the staircase, healthy looking adult ?! June 15 Cool, overcast, and windy when we set up. The injured F P. leucomelas has oviposited in her bag and is still alive, thus seemingly not seriously envenomated by the Serrantrif (she is now 98 mm SL, 56 mm in KE's catalog). The T. stejnegeri I found last night is w/in 1g and a couple of mm exact measurements of