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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