Field notes, v1308

Greene, Harry W., 1945-
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H. Greene 1991-1998 Catalogue #2147-3130 Journal 1991 Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos. Calif: Contra Costa, Siskiyou Cos. Costa Rica: Santa Rosa Nat. Park, La Selva B. S. Arizona: Cochise Co. New Mexico: Hidalgo Co. 1992 Arizona: Cochise, Pima Cos. Calif: San Bernadino Co. 1993 Arizona: Cochise Co. 1994 Calif: Contra Costa, San Joaquin Cos. Temperature/humidity tables 1997 Hong Kong Vietnam: Tam Dao 1998 Arizona: Cochise Co.
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Green, H. 1991 Catalogue March 27 Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2147 Crotalus molossus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, Fall, 1990 200 m W- Portal Rd. on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2148 Crotalus molossus shot by wood worker, September, 1990 coll. B. Torberlin 4.2 mi NW of State line on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2149 Salvadora hepalepis DOR coll. B. Jennings, September, 23, 1990 Base of Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mtns., Pima Co., Arizona 2150 Mastricophis (vilineatus) DOR coll. B. Jennings, July 18, 1990 1.0 mi SW Apache on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2151 Pterophis melanoleucus coll. B. Jennings, September, 4, 1990 June 4 Between Granite Mtns. & Kelso Dunes on Kellaber Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 2152 Crotalus cerastes NOR # 213ah, x May 30, 1990, coll. R. Reed July 7 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 2153 Thecadactylus rapicandus x 2245 hr. 20.7g 5/5+ /40mm ? 2154 Bufo marinus 6.8g regurgitated by Leptodeira septentrionalis (released) July 12 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 2155 Micrurus nigrocinctus found dead on path after dark July 24 Grecia, Prov. Alajuela, Costa Rica 2156 Micrurus nigrocinctus urban garden, May, 1991; possible killed elderly woman 2157 Imantodes innexalis found dead June, 1991 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica July 22, 1991 2158 Tantilla melanophalus active in letter x 0630h 273+ 90mm, 6.0g July 25 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 2159 Agalychnis calcarifer tadpole coll. W.E. Roberts, July, 1991 2160 Agalychnis calcarifer tadpole "CCL 750 site" 2161 cf. Rana palmipes lot of ~20 tadpoles coll. W.E. Roberts, July, 1991
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Greene, H. 1991 July 26 2162 Typhlops sp.? 2163 Porhidium ophymegoz 2164 Porhidium nummifa 2165 Porhidium nummifa August 3 7.1 mi S W of State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2166 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1945 h 65♀ + 3♂ mm, /60g August 4 1.7 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2167 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 1927h 1216+145+? mm 475g 2168 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 1927h 136♀ + 181 mm 760g August 5 x 2 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2169 Crotalus scutulatus AOR/DOR x/2015 h coll. T. Snell 790+68mm 315g 6.8 mi W. Animal on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2170 Crotalus atrox DOR 0848h MST coll. W. Sherbrooke, G. A. Mielkeendorf, June 24, 1991 L. Beatty cochise Co., Arizona Between Sunny Flats & South Fork, Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Arizona 2171 Crotalus molossus AOR/DOR coll. Sarah Schmidt, April 17, 1991 August 13 Granite Gap 10.8 mi S. Hwy 10 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2172 Crotalus molossus AOR coll. T. A. Snell, August 12, 1991, 2059 h, 2228 725+56mm, sat saved /070+77 2173 Crotalus molossus DOR coll. T. A. Snell, August 12, 1991, 2059 h, mm 2.1 mi W. State Line Rd. on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2174 Hypsiglena torquata AOR 2113h, August 12, 1991 Hwy 533, between Hwy 80 and State Line Rd., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2175 Heloderma suspectum DOR 0530h, coll. D. West, August 8, 1991 3 mi. E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2176 Salvadora coll. D. West, August 11, 1991 contains Greidophus
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Greene, H. 1991 August 13 3 mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2177 Masticophis flagellum DOR coll. B.R.Torberlin, November 13, 1990 Near Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2178 Thamnophis cystopsios DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, August 12, 1991 /2.2 mi. N. Hwy 533 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2179 Rhinocheilus lecontei DOR T.A. Snell, August 8, 1981 Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2180 Gyalopion canum scat only, snake released, July 28, 1991 coll. 3.R.Torberlin August 14 4.4 mi NE Hwy 666 (south) on Hwy 10, Cochise Co., Arizona 2181 Masticophis flagellum AOR/DOR 0733 km. /10.1 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2182 Crotalus viridis AOR 2046km 7/13 +61 mm, 3/8 g 1.3 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2183 Crotalus scutulatus DOR (fresh) 2107 km. August 15 Limestone Mtns, ~2 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2184 Uroceucus ornatus coll. S.R. Zamudio Jct. Portal Rd. & State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2185 Tantilla nigriceps AOR 2049 km. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2186 Trimorphodon biscutatus AOR 2125 km August 17 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2187 Crotalus willardi active 0830km. el. 5700' 3/10+29 mm, 32.2g (+19.2 g woodrat remains) 2188 Crotalus willardi active 0915 km. el. 5700', 526+57 mm, 149.8g August 19 ~2 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2189 Thamnophis cystopsios AOR 0900 km. 482+172 mm 34.5 g ~ S mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2190 Masticophis flagellum DOR 1600 km.
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Thorne, lt. 1991 August 19 Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2191 Bufo debilis 2192 Bufo debilis September 28 Indian Creek Canyon, Guimera Mtns., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico snake released, rodent saved - cf. Paramyscus 2193 Lampropeltis pyromelana 602 + 111 mm, 87 g + 6.2 g preg remains vic. Portel, Cochise Co., Arizona 2194 Crotalus scutulatus born in captivity September, 1991, deformed
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Heere, H. 1992 Catalogue March 7 Ê3 mi. W. of Portal on rd. to Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona 2195 unidentified snake vertebrae Ê2 mi. W. Portal on rd. to Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona 2196 Elaphe triaspis coll. B. Torberlin, May 1991 April 4 Coral Hollow Rd., San Joaquin Co., California 2197 Lampropeltis getula AOR/DOR 1829h. May 13 10.0 mi. E. Newberry Springs on Natl. Trails Hwy, San Bernardino Co., California 2198 Salvadora heliopis DOR (fresh) at edge of Bisqah tana low, 1958h May 14 1.6 mi ? of I-40 on Water Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 2199 Hypsiglena torquata under Yucca, 2oz 273+60 mm Chiricahua Mtns., 0.5 mi W. Cave Creek Rd. on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona coll. D.L. Hardy Sept. 1, 1991 2200 Crotalus molossus DOR 0710h. 754+54 mm, 202g Chiricahua Mtns., Ê2 mi N. Galayjillo on San Simon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2201 Masticophis vilinatus DOR coll. D.L. Hardy, Sept., 1971 May 19 0.3 mi W. Hwy 80 on Hwy 533, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2202 Gyalopion canum AOR 2050h 23g May 20 Chiricahua Mtns., Ê3½ mi E. Buena Vista Forkent, Ê37800'el., Cochise Co., Arizona 2203 Lampropeltis pyromelana under rock /1946h/, 19.5g w/ prey, S. virgatus May 21 Chiricahua Mtns., Ê2 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2204 Hypsiglena torquata under dead aspen, 0820h. May 22 No locality later - captive bred at Dallas Zoo 2205 Asthis supercilious May 24 Palencillo Mtns., Guadeloupe Canyon, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico coll. T. Sinclair 2206 Pituophis mellarolencus Η 56/ +75mm, 47.8g, released; Thoromys May 25 Chiricahua Mtns., 2.3 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2207 Masticophis vilinatus active 1027h 1042+475mm, 246g
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Greer, H. 1992 May 25 San Bernardino Valley, Jct Hwy 80 & Pecho Canyon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2208 Sonora semiannulata under stone /645h 1/10+26mm May 26 21mi N. Hwy 533 mi Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2209 Tantilla nigriceps AOR coll. B.Torberlin, May 10, 1992. california May 27 21.7mi E. of Auberg Springs (I-40) on Natl Trails Hwy, San Bernardino Co., 2210 Phyllisychirus decoratus AOR 2035h. June 21 Grasshopper Flat, Shasta-Trinity Natl Forest, Siskiyou Co., California 2211 Bufo boreas active ~1/30h. July 31 Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona prey 1/5g 2212 Crotalus molossus (prey only), coll. Paul Hyder, July 7, 1992, 779+41(mm)300g August 1 Chiricahua Mtns, ~2 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2213 Crotalus molossus (prey only) 964 + 78mm, 687g; regurgitated total 53g regurgitated 2 meals, August 2 Chiricahua Mtns, Sunny Flat Campground, Cochise Co., Arizona 2214 Elaphe hiaspis (prey only) July 31, 1992, 1702h, AOR, "28vivos" N.J.08244 coll. Bob Mauerer, 9 Wilson Ave, Sorens Pt. Chiricahua Mtns, Jctis E. Turkey Creek Driv/Saddle, Cochise Co., Arizona swallowed head-first prey 3 Sceloporus 2215 Lampropeltis pyronelana DOR ~0930h, 55.5g janovii (18g) 2216 Sceloporus janovii removed from HWG 22/5. August 3 Chiricahua Mtns, Cave Creek Canyon, Cochise Co., Arizona 2217 Crotalus molossus coll. B.Torberlin, July 26, 1992, pres Aug 3, 1992 683+46mm /60g August 5 7.2 mi E. of Hwy 285 on Hwy 90, Terrell Co., Texas 2218 Agkistrodon contortrix AOR coll. B.E.Dial, July 10, 1992 August 7 1/4mi S. Hwy 9 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2219 Lampropeltis getula 100g (snake released) regurgitated S. undulatus 8g AOR coll. S.Mckessey J 22.1mi SW State Line on Hwy 80 Cochise Co., Arizona 2220 Salvadora hexalepis DOR 1956h August 8 ~1/2 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 430+110mm 27g 2221 Salvadora hexalepis AOR/DOR ~1/635h sc: C. uniparens 6g
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Heese, H. 1992 August 8 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2222 Crotalus molossus (stomach contents only) ♂ 985+80 mm, 905 g 2223 Crotalus molossus (stomach contents only) ♂ 817+66 mm, 560 g August 10 Antelope Pass, Peloncillo Mtns., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2224 Masticophis bilineatus (pregn.) ♀ 86+362 mm, 101 g + 1/5 g of prey August 12 Hwy 80 at Rucker Canyon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2225 Holbrookia maculata coll. B. Torberlin, July 17, 1992 DOR 19.8 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2226 Sistrurus catenatus AOR 1947 hr (feces saved) 40 g; impels parallel 20.4 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2227 Bufo alvarius AOR 2027 hr August 13 ¾ mi SW Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2228 Crotalus molossus coll B. Torberlin, August 6, 1992, feces August 13, 1992 August 15 ½ mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2229 Rhinocheilus lecontei coll M. Foyden, AOR/DOR crush August 19 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2230 Crotalus lapidus (released) ♂ 430+45 mm, 61 g; Sceloporus clarki 18 g, resuscitated August 20 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2231 Diadophis punctatus coll. June 6, 1992, B. Torberlin #1 2232 " " " 5/9 hatched from eggs laid #2 2233 " " " by HWG 2231 on June 20, 1992, #5 2234 " " " emerged August 15-17, 1992, 2235 " " " 4 others released at capture 2236 " " " site of female - see separate notes. August 21 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2237 Sceloporus clarki coll. B. Torberlin (saved resuscitated)
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Greene, H. 1992 August 21 32.5 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2238 Crotalus molossus DOR x 2200h 1.2 mi NW Southwest Research Station Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2239 Thamnophis cytopsis (pregn), coll. T. Mathies, July 1, 1992 September 14 8 mi S of I-10 on San Simon - Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2240 Masticophis flagellum AOR/POR 1000h coll. D. L. Hardy, Aug. 27, 1992 0.5 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 990+?f 83mm, 66g+?g 2241 Crotalus molossus "#1", killed by Rancher, coll. D. J. Hardy, Aug. 28, 1992 Chiricahua Mtns., John Hard Campground, Cochise Co., Arizona coll. T. Snell, Sept 6, 1992 2242 Crotalus molossus (snake released) 70+42mm ?280g, +150g cotton rat Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico in can trap, B. Terbelin, Sept 9, 1992 7.7 g 2243 Lampropeltis getula (released) SV 305mm, 13.1g, + Sceloporus SV 64?m October 14 Chiricahua Mtns., Cave Creek Canyon, 2.9 mi SW Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2244 Elaphe hiaspis DOR 2010h, partly consumed by skunk Mills, Ranch, 5.4 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2245 Diadophis punctatus coll. x October 1, 1992 by Mills family October 25 2246 Crotalus viridis amelanistic, rec'd from Sacramento Zoo October 28 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2247 Diadophis punctatus coll. F. Wilson Vicinity of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2248 Diadophis punctatus rec'd from F.E. Russell, August, 1992
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Greene, H. 1993 Catalogue July 24 2500 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 220+57mm, 7.2g 2500 Sonora semiannulata active 1/4 25h., SC: 2 spider w/ egg cases 2501 Phrynosoma douglasii nemoti coll. K.R. Zamudio July 25 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 54+25+21mm, 3.1g 2502 Sceloporus scalaris active in bunch grass, coll. K.R. Zamudio 2503 Cnemidophorus sonorae coll. K.R. Zamudio 92+137+40 mm. 2504 Phrynosoma douglasii neonoto July 26 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2505 Thamnophis cyrtopsis baski on rocks 0900h 690mm+? 60g July 27 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2506 Phrynosoma douglasii neonoto coll. K.R. Zamudio 2507 Holbrookia maculata gravid f, 56+45mm, 6g August 1 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona regurgitated by 2508 Septemphilops sp. 1.7g, TL=190mm; Micruroides 386+27mm, 11g August 2 ~2.5 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2509 Crotalus molossus (stomach content: oxy-Nedona swallowed head-ist Jct, Hwy P. 336 & 321, Jasper Co., South Carolina 2510 Larpropeltis triangulum coll. T. Sinclair, June 27, 1989 August 3 9.9 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2511 Thamnophis marciams 40R/DOR 2020hso. 467+140mm, 47g 20.7 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2512 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 2040h 890+141mm, 270g 22.2 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2513 Sistrurus catenatus DOR 2044h, 356+38mm, 38g 19.8mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 260g 2514 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 2055h, 936+135mm
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Here, A. 1993 August 3 2515 7.6 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona Lampropeltis getula AOR 2115h, 452+79 mm, 39g August 4 2516 ~3 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Micruroides euryxanthus AOE/DOE coll. B. Tonberlin 25 Guadalupe Canyon, Pelonillo Mtns., Hidelfo Co., New Mexico 2517 svske vetlrae, coll. B. Tonberlin High Awesome Rocks, 4 mi N. Antelope Wells, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2518 Sceloporus poinsetti coll. B. Tonberlin, July 17, 1993 August 6 2519 2.3 mi SW Portal on Care Creek Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona Grotalus molossus DOE 2100h, coll. Aaron Eif
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Greene, H. 1994 catalogue May 6 Castle Rock, Conal Hollow Rd., San Joaquin Co., California 2520 Salvadora skin only, found by Brian Simon July 15 Spring near Wasgate Pass, 8.2 mi E. of Hwy 395 on Hwy 168, Luzo Co., California 2521 Tantilla hobartsmithi coll. April 09, 1994, S.M. Deban, Garcia-Paris m.J. Mahoney, m. 1.7 mi SE Carelo on Hwy 83, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, el. 5250' 2522 Crotalus willardi coll. F.M.Wilson, AOR/DOR 1740h, August 8, 1993 480+66mm) 106.8g July 26 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2523 Cnemidophorus sonorae coll. K.R.Zamudio 0915h active 2524 Cnemidophorus sonorae coll. K.R.Zamudio 0925h active July 29 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2525 Spea active after sunset, 2010h August 6 Portal Rd. at Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2526 Salvadora hexalepis coll. unknown ~ July 20, 1994 S.I mi W. Hwy 80 on Rucker Canyon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2527 Phrynosoma douglasii coll. R. Reiserer, July 23, 1994 2.4 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2528 Bufo punctatus AOR 2010 h, August 2, 1994 N. edge Picilla Mtns., 32.3mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2529 Helo dora suspectum very DOR! coll. R.Goodman, August 3, 1994 7.2 mi S. Carelo on Hwy 83 at Sta. Cruz Q. line, Cochise Co., Arizona 2530 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 1130h, 1265+196mm, 680g August 6, 1994 2.6 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2531 Crotalus willardus AOR/DOR 2004h, 761+59mm, 273g ~2 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona AOR 2010h, August 1, 1994 2531 Crotalus willardus ~1 987+73 mm, 658g, released, scat saved
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Greene, H. 1994 August 11 1.6 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2532 Crotalus molossus AOR 2019h, August 3, 1994, released, scut saved Between Orion Saddle & Barfoot Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2533 Crotalus pricei δ 391+38mm, 41.3g, coll. R. Kowalski, August 7, 1994 released, saved scalopus janor prey, head first, 19.6 g X 1 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2534 Crotalus atrox 1700h, August 10, 1994, released, 1028+58mm, 745g φ saved rabbit, head first, 225 g Care Creek Canyon, X4 mi SW Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2535 Crotalus molossus DOR coll. B. Tornabolin, September, 1993 Care Creek Canyon, 3.7 mi SW Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2536 Crotalus molossus fresh DOR X1030h coll. C.J.Cole & Kristi Hurley, 214g prey 83.5g August 14 Chiricahua Mtns, 1/2 mi S. Sycamore Spring, Cochise Co., Arizona 2537 Phrynosora douglasii δ on trail in sun, 0910h 2538 Phrynosora douglasii φ on trail in sun 0917h
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Atene, lt. 1995 January 13 2539 Crotalus willardi July 25 2540 Pituophis melanoleucus coll. K. Meier, 1993-1994 Animal Behavior Field Station, U.C. Berkeley Campus, Alameda Co., California 2541 Crotalus viridis hypaer compound, summer, 1994 10mi W. jct. N. Sabino Canyon Rd. & Old Sabino Canyon Rd., Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona 2542 Pituophis melanoleucus coll. D.L. Hardy, Sr. Sept. 17, 1994 DOR 8730hr. August 6 2543 4.8 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Lampropeltis getula fresh DOR 2020hr August 7 2544 ~3mi E. Cloverdale, Drinas Valley, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Phrynosoma douglasii B. Tonkerlin, kid #6, SV15mm, 59.9g (saved only middle toe, right front foot, 95% ethanol) August 10 2545 11.0 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona Heterodon nasicus DOR 1955hr Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2546 Crotalus molossus scat saved, snake #64 released, B. Tonkerlin 965+71mm, 690g Aug 1, 1995 August 13 2547 3.7 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Hypsiglena torquata DOR 2040hr September 2 2548 3.9 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona July 23, 1995 card D.L. Hardy 84.5g, hard scale rolled Trirachidum tricolatus fresh DOR 0640hr, 733+132mm 2549 Crotalus molossus DOR 1150hr coll. D.L. Hardy, Sr., Aug 21, 1995 2550 Pituophis melanoleucus
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Greene, H. 1995 September 2 4.6 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2550 Pituophis catenifer AOR 1947m, August 31, 1995 ~ 2.5 mi NW Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2551 Pituophis catenifer AOR 0827h, released w/ transmitter September 5 No collection data - private collecting Jeff Gee 2552 Pituophis m. lodingi 2553 Pituophis m. melanoleucus 2554 Pituophis m. mugitus 2555 Pituophis catenifer pumilis 2556 Pituophis catenifer binaris 2557 Pituophis catenifer vertebralis 2559 Pituophis ruthveni Animas Valley, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2558 Lampropeltis triangulum coll. B. Torkelin, 1994 - scale clip only 4.5 mi E. Portal Cochise Co., Arizona 2560 Pituophis catenifer AOR/DOR 2000h 32/1+54mm, 1/4s September 7 ~1mi S. Hwy 9 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2561 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. J. Gee, Sept. 1, 1995 ~4 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2562 Crotalus scutulatus DOR, coll. J- Gee, Sept. 1, 1995 September 9 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2563 Crotalus willardi scale clip 100% ETOH, snake released September 11 Cajon Brinto, Sierra Pan Duro, Sonora, Mexico 2564 Crotalus willardi scale clip only; coll. B. Martin, May 9, 1985 Cajon El Infierno, Sierra Acordis, Sonora, Mexico 2565 Crotalus willardi scale clip only; coll. B. Martin, Aug 14, 1980
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Aberc, et. 1995 September 11 2566 crotalus willardii No collection data - private collection of Tom Moise 2567 Pituophis l. leppii , Mexican, Mexico 2568 Pituophis l. leppii , Durango, Mexico 2569 Pituophis l. jani 2570 Pituophis catenifer fuliginosus, Isla San Martin Mexico October 22 Cucumber Creek, Wichita Mountains, Jefferson Co., Oklahoma 2571 Askiatrodon piscinus 123.8g 2572 Microtus pinetorum 31.2g palpied from HWG 2571 6/3/4 Katie E. Aug 80 or Aug 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico [illegible]
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Azeez, ld. 1996 Catalog May 25 10.0 mi E. Arroway Rd. on Natl. Trails Hwy San Bernardino Co., California 2573 Crotalus cerastes 11.9 g 2574 Cnemidophorus tigris 11.5g, removed from stomach of HWG 2573 July 14 1.5 mi N. Parker Canyon Lake, Cochise Co., Arizona 2575 Crotallus willardi AOR, F.M. Wilson, July 8; snake released, scale clipped 300 m W. Portal Store, Cochise Co., Arizona 2576 Masticophis bilineatus July 7, fresh DOR 0706h, D.L. Hardy, Sr. /62g 946+412 mm July 16 ¼ mi N. Apache on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2577 Micrurus euryanthus DOR ≈ July 7, T.A. Snell Chavez Cyn., just below Big Hatdet Peak, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2578 Sceloporus jarovii coll. A.T. Holycross, July 12, 1996 ≈ 8350' lat. 1.8 mi S. Onmun saddle on Rustle Park Rd. Chinicahua Mtms, Cochise Co., Arizona 2579 Sceloporus virgatus 7g, 63+69 mm 2580 Sceloporus virgatus 6.8g, 60+70 mm 2581 Sceloporus jarovii 12.5g, 73+57+15mm, 2582 Sceloporus jarovii 11.5g, 71+95 mm 2583 Sceloporus jarovii 11.0g, 71+99 mm 2584 Sceloporus jarovii 11.5g, 71+28+41mm July 13 8.6 mi N of Portal Rd on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2585 Rhinochilus lecontei AOR 2145h, July 13,1996 July 18 32.5 mi S. Hwy I-10 or Hwy 338, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2586 Hypsigerana torquata DOR coll. B.Torberlin July 19 Hwy 80 at Portal Rd. Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2587 Petrophis catenifer fresh DOR 2050h July 21 2.5 mi N. Portal Rd on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2588 Lampropeltis getula DOR 2240h
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Greene, H. 1996 July 23 2.3 mi SE Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2589 Crotalus molossus AOR/DOR 0720h, 550g, 912+73mm 3/4mi E of East Turkey Creek, Chinahuan Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2590 Crotalus molossus 802+63mm, coll. T. Malone, 357g N side of Granite Gap, Peloncillos Mtns, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2591 Crotalus molossus AOR/DOR 2000h, 980g, 1170+86mm July 28 ~2.5 mi W Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2592 Pitophis catenifer scale clip saved, snake released. 1/200+65mm 675g ~25 mi SW State Dine or Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2593 Heterodon nasicus AOR, coll. T. Snell, July 22, 1996 August 4 Vicinity Southwestern Research Station, Chinahuan Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona (H#87) 2594 Crotalus molossus scat only, snake released ♀ 490+29mm, 66.1g 2595 Crotalus molossus stomach content saved, snake released ♀ 901+23mm, 46.6g August 5 0.6mi N of Hwy 53 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2596 Rhinocheilus lecontei 2310 h AOR, coll. S. P. Mackenzy August 8 ~4-5 mi SE Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2597 Arizona elegans DOR ~2000h, coll. B. Tonberlin 335+52mm August 9 Bag Springs Trail, 5400-5600'el, Madre Canyon, Santa Rita Mtns, Arizona Santa Cruz Co. 2598 Sceloporus janovii 76+44mm. +34; 13.5gms. coll. E.L.Greene 2599 Sceloporus janovii 77+105mm.; 14.8gms coll. K.R.Zamudio 2600 Tantilla wilcoxi 5.5gms pres. September 12, 1996 243+82 mm August 10 Miller Peak Trail, Sunnyside Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2601 Sceloporus janovii coll. E.L.Greene 81.0+22+46; 14.8gms. 2602 Sceloporus janovii coll. K.R.Zamudio 79+62+29; 15.8gms.
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Greene, H. 1996 August 11 Gardner Canyon Trail, Santa Rita Mtns., Santa Cruz Co., Arizona 2603 Sceloporus janorii 6100'el. Coll. E.L.Greene 71+81+?; 15.0 gms 2604 Sceloporus janorii 6100'el. Coll. K.R.Zamudio 86+121; 20 gms 2 mi. W. Harshaw Rd. on Guajolo & Rd., Patagonia Mtns, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona 2605 Sceloporus janorii 5900'el. Coll. K.R.Zamudio 67+45+28; 10.0 gms August 12 ~2 mi SW State Div on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2606 Rhinocheilus decorlei AOR B.Tomberlin 351+56mm, 18g 69+15/mm 7.7g. 2607 Enenidophorus unipaceros regurgitated by HWG 2606 August 14 1.7 mi N.of Hwy 533 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2608 Lampropeltis getula AOR/DOR 2105h, 836+137; 184 gms ~~~ 4.8 mi W of Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co, New Mexico 2609 Crotalus atrox DOR 2125h, 615+46mm.; 153 gms. 2.1 mi E. of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona snake released 2610 Crotalus atrox AOR 2216h, 8/10+5/mm, 31g, regurg. Dipodomys 36.5g 0.5 mi.-E. of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2611 Rhinocheilus decorlei AOR ~2115h, coll. D.L.Hardy Sr., 80 g August 16 ~2.5 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2612 Mastigophis luteolatus DOR 0900 h ~3-4 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co, New Mexico 2613 Rhinocheilus decorlei DOR coll. K.R.Zamudio 32.5 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2614 Crotalus viridis DOR Coll. K.R.Zamudio August 20 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2615 Crotalus molossus (released) regurgitated Peromyscus 26.2g coll. 308+12mm, Gutton, 20.3g ♀ D.L.Hardy Sr
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Greene, H. 1996 August 25 Grasshopper Flat, Shasta-Trinity Nall. Foot, Siskiyou Co., California 2616 Phrynosoma douglasi ♂ 2617 Phrynosoma douglasi ♀ August 30 4.5 mi SW Portal on Care Creek Rd (USFS 42), Cochise Co., Arizona 2618 Crotalus molossus 594 +35 mm, 136 g, coll. D.L. Hardy Sr 2619 Eutlania dorsalis 38g, requisitioned by HW & 2618 Santa Cruz October 5 6 mi. up Gardner Canyon, Santa Rita Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2620 Crotalus molossus DOR coll. R. Staub, August 11, 1996 South Fork, Care Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2621 Lar-propeltis pyronelara coll. R. Staub, August, 1989. Above Herbert Marty's Dam, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 2622 Lan-propeltis pyronelara coll. R. Staub, June, 1996. SW base Mt. Eldon, ? 2 mi NW of Hwy 89, Flagstaff, Coconino Co., Arizona 2623 Phrynosoma douglasi coll. B.W. Schubert, October 1, 1996 October 16 Huachuea Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2624 Crotalus willardi coll. F.M. Wilson, DOR 426+49 mm 66.3g November 12 2.8 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2625 Crotalus molossus cf D.D.L. Hardy Sr. DOR/#0R/1050h, 74°F 31.4g 362+2/mm,
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Heene, H. 1997 July 30 2626 0.2 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Bufo cognatus AOR 2004h, 4140' el. (live) 2627 1.4 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Bufo cognatus AOR 2010h, 4080' el. (live) 3.6 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2628 Rhinocheilus lecontei trapped in cattle guard 2055h 2.8 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2629 Bufo cognatus 2057h AOR 4140' el. (live) 1.0 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2630 Bufo cognatus AOR 2105h, 4080' el. (live) July 31 2631 3.6 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Hypsiglena torquata trapped in cattle guard, 4180' el. ≈3 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2632 Crotalus mocsensus DOR ≈0945h, Coll. C. Ran, Aug 7, 1997 18.0 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2633 Pituophis catenifer DOR 2115h, 4640' el. (live) 17.6 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2634 Sistrurus catenatus DOR 2117h, 4640' el. (live) 17.0 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2635 Crotalus atrox DOR 2120h (live) August 2 Wood Canyon Trail, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2636 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K. R. Zamudio (live) 2637 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K. R. Zamudio (live) 2638 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K. R. Zamudio (live) 2639 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K. R. Zamudio (live) 2640 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K. R. Zamudio (live)
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Greene, H. 1997 August 2 Wood Canyon Trail, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 5660-5940' el. 2641 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K.R. Zamudio (liver) 2642 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K.R. Zamudio (liver) 2643 Sceloporus virgatus coll. K.R. Zamudio (liver) August 3 Rucker Canyon Rd., 0.8 mi NNE of USFS Boundary, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2644 Mastigophis bilineatus DOR 14/6hr, eaten by raptors Rucker Canyon Rd., 0.8 mi NE Camp Rucker, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2645 Sceloporus virgatus (liver) August 12 Rincon Mtns? 3.5 mi S Sawmill Tank on Tripp Canyon Rd., Graham Co. ~6500'el. Arizona 2646 Mastigophis taeniatus AOR 11/35 hr, /052 + 4/10 mm 195g (liver) August 14 3.6 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 2647 Thamnophis cyrtopsis trapped in cattle guard 2145 hr. 193+53 mm 3.0g S. 1 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2648 Rhinocheilus lecontei. AOR 2225hr, 4360'el., 95g
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Greene, H. 1998 June 16, 1998 2649 Masticophis flagellum, long-term captive 2650 Lampropeltis mexicana georgii, long-term captive 2651 Pituophis m. lodingi ♂ 2652 Pituophis m. lodingi ♀ June 18, 1998 Received from Kentucky Reptile Zoo 2653 Agkistrodon bilineatus taylori ♂ 2654 Agkistrodon bilineatus taylori ♀ July 29 17.6 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2655 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2010hr 495 +30 mm, 75g 21.6 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2656 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2047hr 505 +32mm, 79g 5.8mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2657 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 214dr 520 +37mm, 80g July 31 Rucker Gym Rd. at Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2658 Drypetona signinum AOR 2045hr 2659 Drypetona signinum AOR 2050hr 2660 Thamnophis marcianus AOR 2025hr 3514/107mm 19g August 1 Silver Creek, ~2.5mi W. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2661 Micrurus coeruleus atrice 0930hr, 12g August 2 0.3 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2662 Rhinocheilus lecontei 2045hr 655 +106mm, 120g 2.7 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2663 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR after dark, coll. D.L. Hardy
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Heere, H. 1998 August 3 2664 Crotaphytus collaris 112+211mm, 64g M. Martins 1.8 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2665 Diguara elegans DOR, coll. D.L. Hardy, July 27, 1998 2.9 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2666 Crotalus atrox DOR coll. D.L. Hardy, July 27, 1998 August 4 15.8 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2667 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1955hrs 649+35mm, 180g 8.5 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2668 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 20/10hrs 2669 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 20/10hrs Southwestern Research Station, Care Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona 2670 Crotalus molossus DOR, coll. W.C. Sharbrooke 3.4 mi E. of Sycanore Canyon on Hwy 39 (Ruby Rd.), Santa Cruz Co., Arizona 2671 Oxybelis aeneus DOR 1201hrs, coll. R.H. Goodman Jr. [illegible] August 7 2672 Crotalus atrox AOR 1957hrs 814+73mm, 408g 20.9 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2673 Sistrurus catenatus DOR 2030hrs 20.4 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 2674 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 2055hrs August 8 1.9 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2675 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR 2000hrs, 9.5g
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Greene, H. 1998 August 10 2.2 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2676 Lampyella selula AOR after dark, coll. D.L. Hardy Sr 41.5 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 2677 Hypsidre torquata AOR after dark, coll. W. Martin's August 11 Hwy 286 btwn Thatcher & Sasabe, Pima Co., Arizona 2678 Rhinoclelus lacontei AOR after dark, coll. B.T. Torbalin
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Acere, H. 1997 May 29 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3000 Trimeresurus stejnegeri 2145m ♂594+149 mm 70.5g May 30 Tam Dao Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3001 Dronatinf triangularis 1700m, 271+100mm 17.0g 3002 Liopeltis multicinctus, 693+278mm 94.5g 3003 Liopeltis multicinctus , 677+306mm, 77.5g 3004 Amphisena modesta 367+205mm, 19.5g 3005 Amphisena modesta 265+105mm, 10.0g 3006 Amphisena modesta 355+170mm, 20.5g 3007 Trimeresurus murosquartus ♂791+191, 84.5g 3008 Bungarus fasciatus 1055+101mm 287g 3009 Bungarus fasciatus 1291 +118 mm , 450g 3010 Bungarus fasciatus 1260 +138mm, 570g 3011 Trimeresurus stejnegeri 646+145mm, 89 g 3012 Trimeresurus allboldris 518+84 mm, 54g 3013 Trimeresurus allboldris 430+68mm, 30g 3014 Trimeresurus allboldris 449+77mm, 36.5g 3015 Trimeresurus allboldris 481+124mm, 40g 3016 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♀ 100+194mm, 29.5g 3017 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♂ 99+178mm, 29.5g 3018 Acanthosaura lepidogaste, ♂ 80+142mm, 13 g 3019 Acanthosaura lepidogaste, ♀ 108+161mm, 27g 3020 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♀ 99+158mm, 24 g 3021 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♂ 86+149mm, 21.5g 3022 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♂ 86+176 mm, 19g 3023 Acanthosaura lepidogaste ♂ 85+159mm, 16.5g
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Heene, H. 1997 May 31 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3024 Colomaria parinetaa 193+20 mm, 1.9g 3025 Xenopeltis unicolor spuz. st hf HLM 3026 Trimeresurus albolaris ♀ 610+108mm, 65.5g 3027 Trimeresurus mucosguanatus ♀ 680+139mm, 68g 3028 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 580+152mm, 61.5g 3029 Trimeresurus albolaris ♀ 410+114 mm, 25.5g 3030 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 525+146 mm 43g 3031 Trimeresurus albolaris ♀ 523+89mm 64g 3032 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 464+120 mm, 35g 3033 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♀ 419+98 mm, 32.5g 3034 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 540+139mm, 42.0g 3035 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 536+132 mm, 44g) 3036 Trimeresurus albolaris ♀ 391+65mm, 27.5g 3037 Trimeresurus albolaris ♂ 361+82 mm, 17.5g 3038 Trimeresurus stejnegeri inigreen, 203+41mm, 2.9g 3039 Paramosoliton deloustali HLM /06+95mm, 41.5q 3040 Sinoratrix trianguligera 900+301 mm 570g June 2 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3041 Rhabdophis chrysargus L 780+191 mm, /75q 3042 Naja atra coll. W. Orlov L 686+121mm, 1/8g 3043 Enhydis plunbea 326+41 mm, 45g 3044 Xenochrophis flavipenetalus HLM 384+129mm, 31g 3045 Lycodon subcinetus HLM 720+146 mm, 41.5q 3046 Lycodon rishrali HLM 608+166mm, 53g
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Azara, H. 1997 June 2 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3047 Opisthotropis jacobi coll. N. Orlov 365+109 mm, 19 g June 3 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3048 Sinotrix triangularis 1955 h, 895 m, 296+102 mm, 21 g 3049 Microhyla heynardi 3050 Amolops richettii 870 m, 2110 h, + blech 3051 Leptolalax pelsdytoides 3052 Philautus cf. gillus 3053 Philautus cf. guifus 3054 Gecko sinensis 64+64 mm, 2215 h, 955 m, 5 g 3055 Bufo melanostictus 3056 Bufo melanostictus 3057 Rhacophorus verrucosus 3058 Rhabdophis chrysargus 508+143 mm, 60 g 3059 Rhabdophis chrysargus 870+181 mm, 185 g 3060 Sinotrix triangularis 436+61+? mm, 52 g 3061 Cyclophiops major 872+251 mm, 190 g 3062 Trinereus microsquamatus 687+152 mm, 64 g 3063 Trinereus microsquamatus 493+110 mm, 24.5 g 3064 Trinereus stejnegeri orange #15 360+89 mm, 18 g 3065 Pareas hamptoni 265+85 mm, 4.65 g 3066 Lycodon x 2100 h, 960 m, 502+130 mm, 53 g 3067 Dinodon 2115 h, 950 m, 716+196 mm, 61.5 g 3068 Sinotrix triangularis 2145 h, 646+274 mm, 215 g 3069 Dinodon 1017 +174+? mm, 140 g 3070 Dinodon 832+77+? mm, 74 g 3071 Lycodon 461+129 mm, 14 g
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Heene, H. 1997 June 3 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3072 Pareas hamptoni 338+106mm, 10g June 4 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov, Vietnam 3073 Trimeresurus microgramatus 889+127mm, 115g 3074 Calliophis maclellandi 415+56mm, 11.5g 3075 Rhabdophis chepangus 840+176mm, 178g 3076 Rhabdophis chepangus 800+17/mm, 140g 3077 Cyclohiops major 816+265mm, 140g 3078 cycloshiops major 764+241 mm, 95.5g 3079 Amphisama modesta 373+200, 22g Snake market Vinh Yen, Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3080 Enhydrio bennettii 721+109mm, 453g June 5 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3081 Gekko sinensis 71+56mm, 6g 3082 Phipignathus coccinus 215+435mm, 340g 3083 Elaphe radiata 960+250mm, 220g 3084 Calliophis maclellandi 383+87, 8.5g 3085 Septolax pelodytoides x 2300m, hotel 3086 Trimeresurus microgramatus 1792+190mm, 104g Trimeresurus microgramatus 2005h, 905m, June 6 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3087 Trimeresurus microgramatus 489+126mm, 30g Trimeresurus microgramatus 587+126mm, 5.4g 3088 Trimeresurus microgramatus AOP/DOR 2015h, 905m
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Haege, H. 1997 June 7 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov. Viet Nam 3089 Xenocrophus flavipunctatus 545+202mm, 111g June 8 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov. Viet Nam 3090 Mabuya longicaudata 91+225mm, 18g 3091 Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus 571+11mm, 40g 3092 Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus 741+172mm, 82.5g 3093 Bungarus multicircetus 854+127mm, 181g 3094 Pareas hamptoni 333+99 mm, 12g 3095 Sinonatrix hianguligera 1920kt, 960m, 505+22/mm, 72.5g 3096 Amolope rickettii 1920h, 960 m, female 89mm, 4.5g 3097 Amolops ricketlii 1920h, 960m 20ochea (6.5)(-1leach) 4mm tissued 922+243mm, 249g ROM Field 2109 June 9 3098 Dinodon rufozonatum ♀ (snake kept by N. Onlor, frog prey retained 3099 Lycodon ruthstenli ♀ (snake kept by N. Onlor, tissueed). 3100 Pareas margantophus 458+86 mm 33g June 11 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov. Viet Nam 3101 Sibynophis chinensis 1040h, DOR, 270+106mm, 11g 3102 Trimeresurus stegei 2045h, 1000m, 36.5g, 442+11mm 531+124mm 3103 Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus AOR 2150kt, 905m, 34g 430+104mm, June 12 3104 Trimeresurus monticola cell. T.J. Paperfuss 795m, 70g June 13 3105 Sinonatrix hianguligera 201g 2000h, 745m, 652+266mm June 13 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Dist., Vinh Phuc Prov. Viet Nam 3106 Sinonatrix hianguligera roqua. & Cencunzlae rump-tusks, 27+g 604+43+? mm, 138g 3107 Megophrys lateralis ♀ 95 mm 50.5g
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Arene, H. 1997 June 13 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3108 Trimeresurus stejnegeri 1920h, 945m, 455+105mm, 31g June 14 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 3109 Trimeresurus stejnegeri 550+141, 68.5g June 15 Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr, Vinh Phuc Prov. Viet Nam 3110 Serpentes trianguligera 3111 "Pseudobriga" AOR 2035h, 905m, 938+328mm, 103g June 16 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Viet Nam 31/2 Rhabdophis chrysargus 180g 3113 Megophrys lateralis requisitoted by HWG 3112, 45g 3114 Serpentes trianguligera 3115 Polypedates leucomystax regurg. by HWG 3114 June 17 Vicinity of Tam Dao, Vinh Yen Distr., Vinh Phuc Prov., Vietnam 3116 Opisthotropio jacobri 425 +71mm, 4.5g 3117 Deaco maculatus 65+112mm 2.9g 3118 Tropidophorus hainanensis 48+29+10mm, 2.18 3119 Trimeresurus stejnegeri ♂ 536+75/mm, 55g ethanal 3120 Trimeresurus monticola ♀ 3121 Trimeresurus monticola ♀
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June 18 Newt pond, Tam Dao, Vinh Yen District, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam. 3122 Sinonatrix trianguligera 494+199mm; 90.5 gms. 3123 Sinonatrix trianguligera 323+116mm; 28.0gms. 3124 Sinonatrix trianguligera 360+135mm; 39.0gms. 3125 Sinonatrix trianguligera 283+113 ; 19.0gms 3126 Sinonatrix trianguligera 308+105 ; 30.5 gms. 3127 Sinonatrix trianguligera 336+123; 26.0gms. 3128 Sinonatrix trianguligera 416 + 160 ; 49.0gms. 3129 Sinonatrix trianguligera 296+104; 20.0gms. 3130 Sinonatrix trianguligera 557+211 ; 149.0gms
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H. Greene 1991-1998 Journal 1991 Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos. Calif: Contra Costa, Siskiyou Cos. Costa Rica: Santa Rosa Nat. Park, La Selva B. S. Arizona: Cochise Co. New Mexico: Hidalgo Co.
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Greene, H. 1991 Journal March 25 Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona arrived here yesterday afternoon, left Berkeley morning before. Spent this morning examining Sistrurus catenatus in the University of Arizona collection, courtesy of Charles H. Jane and George Bradley. George, the technician, grew up around Prescott and told me he had seen a denning aggregation of Crotalus molossus near there. Also said he's seen woodrats in the stomachs of DOR Blacktail, and once an Ammospermophilus harrisii. Spoke briefly w/ Cecil Schwatke, who told me that April 10, 1986, he found a "court" pair of blacktails -- he will get details. Dinner w/ Katrina Mangin. March 26 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here approx 1700h just ahead of a cold front. Snow down to approx 6-7000' el. in the Chiricahuas proper, but more on Finestone Mountain (our Crotalus molossus site) or other nearby outliers. March 27 From approx 1030-1230h I worked over the slopes of Finestone Mountain, our Crotalus molossus study site. Snow vegetation is bare and sparse, but if anything the catclaw spines are sharper than I've ever seen them. At approx 1130h, bright sun & clear sky, I traced the signal of M #7 (48.239) to a hole w/in a cave of a limestone outcrop, where Barney tells me the snake has been for some time. It is at the top of a fissure from which runs a mire of Nectoma droppings. I stuck my head up in the hole and heard a growling humming noise, then looked up to see bees flying!
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Azere, H. 1991 March 27 (continued) I could not pick up signals (all Telovics receive?) for ?? # 3, 6, or 7 - don't know why. Next Barney Torberlin and I drove to Kreuz Ranch and turned rocks along Rucker Canyon Rd., 1-2 mi W of Hwy 80 - I caught 2 sceloporus undulatus under rocks but obviously warmed up and active. Picked up a few snakes Barney preserved for me last Fall. On the way back from Kreuz Ranch at 14:15 hr we found a large adult Grotalus scutulatus crossing State Fire Rd. - when we approached it flattened the entire body, drew the head back into a tight S-will such that the tail was toward us and the body stretched away almost straight w/ the head turned back and slightly elevated to face us. Barney kept the snake. What a mercurial landscape these southwestern deserts! A few nights ago I was driving through the eastern Mojave Desert after recent days of rain. The smell of wet creosote bush seeped into my truck - rich, sharp, clean, invigorating, almost intoxicating - evoking unexpected images of green leaves and yellow flowers while ahead only a steady stream of oncoming car lights stretched on into the eastern edge of night. The next day, hurtling down the dips and curves of Hwy 95, south from Needles, I realized that all those purple brown mountain ranges seem to float out of the surrounding basins - they float!
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Greene, H. 1991 March 27 Today in the Chiricahuas at dusk - Limestone Mtn. (continued) a huge, rocky sleeping hulh off to the north, no snow on it. The central peaks, more wooded and w/ snow down to ~7000'el., somehow all seemed Oriental. And somehow in the cold gathering dark Limestone Mtn. seemed alive - how many bunnies and blacktails, bears and lions live up there? Would the mountain die w/out them? around midnight a ferocious dark storm howls in, and when I stepped out on the porch to pee I could smell wet dust in the wind. March 28 This morning there is snow down to about 4000'el! Cold, patches of clear sky, large clouds. Drove to Tucson for lunch w/ Howard Fowler. Dinner w/ Wayne Maddison, Rob Robidoux and their families, Start the two day trip back to Berkeley tomorrow. April 5-7 White Mtn. Research Station, Inyo Co., California attended a meetig of UC ecologists here w/ Wendy Roberts, and on the way stopped to ride bikes on a dirt road north of Mono Lake. Manager told me about a Pituophis melanoleucus that got stuck in chicken wire and died.
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Heene, H. 1991 April 19 Bienes Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., California Today I saw a mountain lion! Wendy Roberts and I rode our mountain bikes from the Bear Creek Rd. entrance parking lot east up Old Briones Rd. Trail. At x/1230 h, x/1200' el., x 2/3 up the long winding slope to Briones Crest I sized and sat beside the dirt road while Wendy rode to the top. She returned shortly and we sat in the grass, eating sandwiches and talking. At x/1240 h I suddenly saw part of a red-tan animal disappear in shrub vegetation on the hillside SW of us and across a ravine, perhaps 100 m away. I remarked it looked like a carnivore, but for a couple of minutes we couldn't get a good view and speculated unconvincingly about a badger or racoon. Then as the animal moved out into view and leisurely traveled in irregular direction over the slope, we saw its telltale form and black-tipped tail. The cat moved to the horizon, slope of the hill, looked at us, disappeared, reappeared and again looked at us, then walked up the hill on the horizon and disappeared behind trees. We saw it for x 5 minutes and identification as Felis concator was certain. We thought the cat seemed to be searching in vegetation - the hill is fairly open, covered in green grass, with scattered shrubs and small trees. The cat definitely looked at us but never seemed alarmed. Knowing of several recent fatal attacks on humans in the U.S., we were
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Here, H. 1991 April 19 (continued) neither afraid nor completely at ease about its nearly presence - we joked about not making rabbit noise while riding down the hill. Back at MVZ I checked to find Carl Koford's published observation of a lion in California stalking a deer had been at 1240hr! We were still buzzing and incredulous about seeing the lion day mid-afternoon, and tonight I read pieces about mountain lions by Charles Bowden and Edward Abbey. May 3 Bixby Regional Park, Control Costa Co., California Spent the morning here w/ my natural history class and found only inactive Sceloporus, Eswrece, skillionius, and Coluber constrictor under rocks - a chilly, windy, overcast morning. The Coluber was a yearling ♂, 290+95mm w/ obvious unbulked scar, regurgitated the femur of a black field cricket. May 4 Same locality, same Coluber under the same rock, but today no palpable stomach contents or feces. In late morning we encountered an adult Pituophis as it emerged from a tunnel that surfaced under a rock. June 10-12 Grasshopper Flat, 24 mi N. Battle (Hwy 395) on Harris Springs Rd., Siskiyou Co., California W/ Sally Zamudio saw 13 Phymosoma douglasii - caught, marked, and released 9 for her studies; these included yearlings, second year juveniles, adult females w/ possibly palpable ovaries, and a male w/ swollen hemipenes. Sally kept measurements, sexes, and capture time - Four
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Greene, H. June 21 Santa Rosa National Park, Guanacaste Prov., Costa Rica Arrived here in rented car x/100 hr w/ Wendy Roberts, having arrived in Costa Rica on the 19th and spent last night at the Hotel Boyeros in Liberia. We walked around a nature trail and a side branch twice by 1130hr, in an area centered on Quedrada Duende, near the memorial hacienda "La Casona" - same area Beth Baker and I visited during the dry season x/981. Now it is lush, green, and humid. In x 3/4 km of walking we saw a Buteo magnirostris (perched on limb x 3-4 m high at trailside), an oriole (in green leaf near ground), and several juvenile and adult Ctenosaura similis. Everywhere there are brown and red leaves on the ground, even now in the wet season, so it is easy to see how Apleistodon bilineatus would be very cryptic on this background. On the road driving back to Liberia we saw a beautiful hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus, perched on a phone pole. Driving toward the coast after a late lunch at El Bramadero, we watched a big thunderstorm to the northwest and met it full force as we pulled into Cabinas Playa Desroza. Wendy went in to see about lodging and found various guests and workers seated on the restaurant patio in x 20-30 cm of water! We took a noon, then went to nearby Playa del Coces for a pizza dinner. On the road returning we saw Gastrophryne, Bufo
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Greene, H. 1991 June 21 (continued) mazinus and B. cf. leuthneri, and a leaping Hyla or Kang, a light rain still falling. Walking along the beach at Playa Hermosa we heard a lost frog chorus, localized it to a large pond beside a house and just inland from the beach edge, and thought we heard B. mazinus, cf. Smilizia, and one other species. June 22 Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste Prov., Costa Rica At breakfast we arranged for a boat in order to search for Pelamis platurus in Bahia de Culebra: the waiter referred us to Mita the cook, a former pescadero who took us to Jesus brothers who lived w/ there mother, six other brothers, and six sisters in the house next to the "frog pool", perhaps 200m North of Cobinas Playa Hermosa. From 1100-1230hr we traveled w/ Freddy and Albani around Islas Pelonas in the same general area I saw w/ Alejandro Solozar except this time we saw not one really good slice w/ a line of debris in it, nor Pelamis. The morni was partly cloudy and hot - again I marveled that the Pelamis float and endure that U.V. load. The brothers say sea snakes are most commonly seen in October, and then even wash up on the beach and are a hazard to children; that last year a Canadian was paying $3000/snake (approx $30). Water was blue and fairly calm today. Paid them $2200 for 1/2 hours, much cheaper than w/ Alejandro at Playa del
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Greene, lt. 1991 June 22 (continued) Coco, although Albani says that place is more poor than here. "Body surfing" w/ Wendy after lunch. ~1/6/5h it's getting darker and there's thunder in the distance. Lots of butterflies around here - yesterday, we saw clouds of several species; "puddling" near the beach, at at least 6 times in the Bay, several km from land a single one (usually bright yellow or orange) would fly by the boat a meter or two above the water. Twice I saw 2 butterflies, evidently the same species and flying together. Wendy says they might be migrating, or victims of the wind. On the grounds of the Cabinas is a case w/ two bright white/gray squirrels w/ dark middorsal stripes, identifiable in Emmons' (both as Sciurus variegatus (later we saw a similar colored animal run off the road nearby, so presume these are local). At ~1700 h we walked to the pond behind Albani's house from where came the frog chorus last night. Next door is a bar, and between it and the pond are four pivies w/ "$30" or "$20" painted on each door (they looked identical and we didn't enter to investigate the price difference). There is trash everywhere in and around the town pond - a squale ranging from discarded wooden chairs to beer bottle shards - and seagulls everywhere and in all sizes are the bright purple, yellow, and red
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Greene, H. 1991 June 22 (continued) crabs so commonly seen at Manuel Antonio National Park. As we approached the pond I saw a crab disappear into the pond beside an irundled tree, taking w/ it what looked in a fast glance to be a small doll! From 2030 - 2130 h we road hunted from Playa Herrrosa to Sardinal beach and past to Playa Paranda, then back to the cabañas; 1 screech owl (?) flew across the road & landed on a limb in view; 1 DOR yearling Crotalus durissus ; 1 DOR & 1 AOR juvenile Trimorphodon biscutatus , the latter of which (both TL's x 70cm) thrashed and bit when held; several Bufo marinus ; several Bufo, some brown and cf. B. walliceps (not here according to Savage) and some yellowish -green w/ small parotoid glands, cf. B. leutekei; an adult Didelphis marsupialis , slender w/an obvious lateral facial blade stripe; and a neonate Postliidium ophryomegas AOR. The latter was frozen in a slow lateral undulatory posture when I stopped, and it the poor light I mistook it for a colubrid! Luckily Wendy, who got to it first and reasonably, especially given my comment (
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Greene, H. 1991 June 23 A pretty restless night. Wendy is in one bed, plagued by mosquitoes that are largely ignoring me despite the fact she is wrapped up like a mummy w/ the fan on. I'm on the other, so warm I'm sweaty w/ no sheet, tossing in and out of sleep. ≈0400 hr I feel several fingers make 3-4 bouts of rhythmic tapping on my head and as I slowly come to consciousness think it must be one of my own hands, neurologically disembodied from being laid on it. As the weird thumping recurs I gradually perceived that each of my hands was elsewhere! So I jerk upright and see a dark oblong form fall from my head to the bed-wall border, then zoom and jump in what looks like rodent-like locomotion. Oh shit, I think, a rat on my head, so get my light to prevent it getting onto Wendy later and find the animal in my duffel bag - one of the yellow-green cf. Bufo leutkerni! There are 3 German Shepherds here, a very old and tranquil female/other two large puppies. Twice the pups have tried to make off w/ our wet shoes in front of the cabina. Last night during dinner all three were collapsed on the dining room floor as if the air had been let out of their tires, at breakfast this AM I spied a 8' Gonatodes active ≈1.5m up on a palm
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Greene, H. 1991 June 23 (continued) Hurk, and thereafter, a big Ctenosaura descended head-first from ~5-6 m up a tree - and doing it pretty gracefully at that. Albani showed up for our appointed second try for Pelamis at 0900h, says we well go at 1000h. At 0950h I spotted another Gonatodes scuttling along a low wall; it stops, wags tail, & repeats. I crept closer and saw a ? (I think of that species) hidly nearby on the edge of a palm trunk. We left to search for Pelamis soon after 1000h, returning before noon (~1/2 hrs.): Albani, a younger trio w/ him, and a trio in his 20's I'd guess and his father (the last two added w/ no explanation nor contribution to the costs). We went deep into Bahia de Culebra, but again saw no snakes nor snakes. The drive back was slow because of numerous trucks full of cattle - a little weird creeping up a winding road in the wake of a black smoke belching, board enclosed truck, its milling cargo loony just in front of and above your hood! Turned in the car after hours at ~1750h, thanks to the cooperation of a very helpful young man named Alisio. June 24 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica arrived here: ~1030h, and Wendy's two volunteer assistants from the States (Charles Bauch and Heidi Robeck) tell us that it has scarcely rained since she left. Spent the day unpacking and otherwise settling in. OTS course arrived.
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Greese, H. 1991 June 25 I spent the day leading orientation walks for students in the OTS course w/ Bob Marquis. On each of three we saw 1 Eleutherodactylus vampfredi and one or more Anolis, and a total of 2 small groups of Ateles. June 26 Today we went w/ Rios Tropicales, a commercial river rafting outfit, on a beginners' level trip on the Rio Sarapiqui between La Virgen and Chelanate. As we put in at the bridge on the south end of La Virgen @ 1000h, a large (>2.5m total length) Spilotes pullatus appeared swimming (not frantically) from the west side and made more than half way across before sweeping downstream ~50 m to an area of rapids. The snake swam in wide lateral undulations, always head upstream and w/ @ the anterior 1-2 m easily visible - I suspect it was inflated. We were surprised it could maintain position in the rapids, which it did for a couple of minutes before achieving the boulder covered west bank and disappearing from our view. There were 7 in the raft: Ann Weeks (architect, U. Florida), Brian Tzaw (undergrad, Harvard), Wendy, Heidi, Charles, me, and our boatman. Other boatman traveled separately (usually ahead) in a kayak. We put out between Chilanate and La Guaria @ 1300h, having seen numerous up to 'Class
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Here, lt. 1991 June 27 Bright and sunny at breakfast. I walked Sura to LOC and back in CES, spending some time off trail at ~550 CES where we've seen Lachesis and Lampropeltis in the past. At 1615 h as I walked out to the boardwalk at CES 425, a Porthidium nasutum (242+24 mm, 12.3 g) crawled at my feet; turned and snapped when seized w/ forceps. Walked length of 150R before lunch. At ~1600 h Wendy and I checked the Ozolochris calcaifer clutch at CCL 750, then a new one Brian found off trail at CCL 250- took lots of photos. At 1930h Charles found an adult Micrurus micrurus ( ) crawling slowly in leaf litter, just off the SOC near its origin; writhed and bit repeatedly when grasped w/ forceps, but did not fail display. We walked to CES 600 and saw only 1 Eleutherodactylus ; others calling. At ~2045 h we caught a reddish-brown Septodeira septentrionalis ( ) crawling against the wall of the River Station bath house. June 28 From 0930-1100 h I walked SURA to LOC and back by CES. Sunny, lots of Ameiva. OTS students brought in an adult ? Ozolochris calcaifer that "jumped into an insect net" as they stood around the cage site at CCL 250- and there is a new egg mass there now too. June 29 From 0800-1130 h walked SOR-SHO-SUA-CCC and to the waterfall w/ Wendy. We checked out several sites
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June, 11 1991 june 29 (continued) for track sampling stations. june 30 walked transect to consider track stations. Visited breeding sites of Azgyclus calcarifer. From 2108-2125h I watched a small adult Smartodes insignatus in a Ficus "lushi" in the Cartazara, by the "14" sign. The snake spanned gaps from twig to the tops of foliage clusters, and across foliage clusters, but never extended out and down onto a cluster or leaf as does t. cenchoa. There were numerous volleys of tongue flicks as it traveled over the out part of the bush. I estimate it searched x 6 cubic meters of foliage in 15 minutes. july 1 Walked the vertebrate monitoring transect w/ Charles Bauch this afternoon - at 1515h, x 540 500m, we missed a juvenile Bothrops asper as it crawled off the trail into forest litter. At 2036h w/ Heidi Rbeek I caught an adult Leptodeira septentrionalis on the ground at x 501: 400; it was crawling slowly when first found, but ran fast, then writhed, discharged its cloacal contents, and bit repeatedly. At 2146h there was a small adult Smartodes insignatus in the Ficus bush near "14" in the Cartazara. july 4 Things have been fairly chaotic here, and I've let several items go unwrote - some to be added later than they occured after getting dates from Wendy or
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Freere, H. 1991 July 4 (continued) Charles' notes. at 1934h tonight on SOR≈300 I caught a Leptodeira septentrionalis that writhed and cloacal discharged when handled July 5 Dave and Billy Hardy, and Ardell Mitchell arrived today. July 6 W/ our entire group, we conducted little searches of 10, 5 X 5 m quadrats near the junction of SSO and SHA (data separate). July 7 Walked the monitoring transect this AM (data separate). at ≈2245h Heidi Robeck called me to a Leptodeira septentrionalis (♀ 515 +140 mm, 20.7g) at SOR50, which she found on the ground eating a Bufo marinus (6.8g, preserved). Snake was just starting over the head when she encountered it and started fining; 14 min-16 secs. later it swallowed the toe tips. Regurgitated as soon as I picked it up. Interesting to note: not much rain since I arrived, and both the site (ground) and prey (Bufo, not hylid) are non-model; L. septentrionalis can behave like I. annulata (as in this case) but probably not the reverse - the latter is heavier bodied and probably can't climb to eat frog eggs. July 8 Walked the monitoring transect - data separate. July 9 Last night began a period of heavy rain, finally. Until now we've had only occasional brief showers- the forest seems dry, frog activity is low both in the forest and swamps. This AM Wendy showed me the spectacle I've heard of for years, mass
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Breese, H. 1991 [See also July 24, 1991] July 9 (continued) Breeding in Dendrobates saltator. Although there was scattered activity elsewhere, most was concentrated just south of the boardwalk in midswamp. A liana 3-4 cm in diameter hangs straight down from a Pentaclethra tree as a single strand to 3-5 m above water, then anastomoses in a tangle suspended down to about the tops of the Spathiphyllum, at which point it is adjacent to a bush w/ a big Bromeliad in the middle. When I arrived at 0630h there were 100-150 frogs, perhaps 1/3 in clasped pairs, crawling up and down the vine tangle. The overall impression was of a rete mirabile (sp) of green bodies, orange feet, and red eyes superimposed on the plants. Movement was rapid: frogs climbed lens-like up and down the vines; fought over females; leaped several meters at time, absorbing the shock on bouncing broad leaved plants; and all the while a chorus of soft single note chuckle calls. By 0900-1000h the whole mass was moving up >2 m to the lowest major tree bough adjacent to the vine, and I could see w/ binoculars several frogs perched in the tree, perpendicular to their branches. Wendy has more detailed notes. From 1930-2015h I could find no snakes in the Carlapara, but David Hardy saw a Leptodeira septentrionalis on the vine tangle of this morning: spectacle at 2230h.
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Greene, H. 1971 July 10 Walked the vertebrate monitoring transect this AM. July 11 Another Agalychnis saltator spectacle this AM - Wendy has detailed notes. At approx 10:15h I saw a yellow-rumped warbler eating eggs of saltator just north of the Cantarana boardwalk, on moss covered vines approx 1m above water. The bird was perched on the reticulate vine for approx 15-20 secs., delivered 1-3 pecks very rapidly, then swallowed (head jerked, bill movement while broke from vine; there were at least 5 "swallowing" events during the bout). At 10:38h I saw a juvenile (carapace approx 75 mm) Kinosternon leucostomum basking on a branch in sun among emergent "grass" near the east end of the Cantarana Swamp - its yellow head stripes were obvious, although I first noticed the glint on its shell. At approx 14:00h there was a total solar eclipse. People had flocked from all over to Guanacaste where viewing was to have been good and was in fact obscured by clouds. We've had heavy rains here for the past few days, but our experience was great! Ronald Suarez had a TV on the covered porch so people there could see in on the screen and in the sky! Wendy and I and a group of OTS students w/ John Vandermeer were in the swamp. Frog calling (Gastrotheca pictiventris, Smilisca baudinii, Hyala eleochoera) seemed to surge at peak
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Greene, H. 1991 July 11 darkness, which lasted only 3-4 minutes, leaves on a (continued) Pentaclethra seemed to partially close. At the canopas, toucans and parrots flew over as at dusk, then flew back a few minutes later w/ returning light. The sky was heavily overcast during most of the eclipse, but clouds parted in just the right place at just the right time to give us a fantastic view of max. eclips - a dark ball surrounded by fiery corona. The darkness seemed to come on in increments rather than smoothly, and at max seemed to me like 8/5 hrs here normally - almost too dark to see anything w/out a light. At the moment of total eclipse and our views of it, spontaneous yelps came out of our group - and Wendy and I talked about how such things must affect aboriginal people, perhaps not entirely unrelated: tonight we watched a video cassette Arnold Mitchell brought down of a recent David Attenborough nature series, w/ two especially stunning sequences. Orcas beaching in Argentina to catch sea lions, then tossing them around in the sea. Chimps gang up to slap, kill, and eat a red colobus monkey - then the troop empty in a screaming frenzy. Hard to avoid a connection w/ humans. And later in the even E. D. Brodie III saw an ocelot (Felis pardalis) w/ a half eaten "large" or rabbit? prey - perhaps paca?
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Greene, H. 1991 July 12 This AM I walked the vertebrate transect - data elsewhere, Heidi Bohach left. Cortazara Swamp is full and the Rio Puerto Viejo runs high and brown - we've had lots of much welcome rain the past few days. July 13 Walked the vertebrate transect this AM w/ Ardell. Showers off and on all day; clear sky w/ stars after dinner - still almost blue, moon just a sliver. I walked out CES to release snakes and was soon drenched in sweat - a heavy humid night. At approx 2130hr I checked the Cortazara Swamp and saw two Septodeira septenionalis south of the boardwalk in vegetation above water: an adult in the large tree near "14", x 2m above water, crawling slowly along a limb - it paused head down a vertical vine then crawled by; and an adult at the edge of the mass of moss covered vines where Agalychnis saltator bred a few days ago - the snake was coiled three times around a horizontal branch, the loops vertical and adjacent such that its belly faced me, and its head was suspended a few cm below to moss and was jerkily plucking saltator eggs from the moss, x 1m above water. July 14 This afternoon I walked the vertebrate transect w/ Dave and Ardell, first time when we haven't gotten soaked in several days. Then a float trip in the Rio Puerto Viejo w/ Dave, Billie, and Wendy. Walking to Rafael's house, Wendy spotted a large adult
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Freere, H. 1991 July 14 (continued) Chelydra serpentina walking slowly on the bottom in shallow water at the edge of Quelzada El Salto under the cement bridge. After dark David Hardy saw a Leptodeira septentrionalis eating Agalychnis saltator eggs on a moss covered vine in the Cantarana Swamp, at the site where we watched the breeding aggregation a few days ago. July 15 This morning I walked the Vertebrate transect w/ Ardell. Last night Wendy learned still another friend of hers has been injured in a climbing accident, probably mortally -- the third this year for her. At approx 1600h we went approx 100m off trail to the NE of the CES/CEN junction to see a peccary (Tajassu tajacu) wallow reported to us by David Clark. Several have been seen (wallowed) the past couple of years, an apparently new phenomenon at La Selva. Wendy found the spot, walked right to it w/ a compass bearing, and as I came up a peccary sped past a few meters from me -- a spray blur among the understory palms. The wallow is several shallow connected pools in a single large muddy depression, w/ peccary tracks everywhere and a strong odor of these animals. We saw no tadpoles. At 2130h I spotted an adult Inartodes inornatus perched on a moss covered branch of a sapling, approx 2.5 m above the entrance to the Cantarana at its west end -- right next to a low palm where twice (?) last December I saw this species on the palm leaves early in the evening. The snake was stationary, facing the tree trunk from approx 30 cm out, w/ neck straight for
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Greene, H. 1991 July 15 (continued) approx 1/3 of its length and the rest in approx 5 shallow alternating loops -- was it waiting for a frog? At 2132 hr a Ninia maculata crossed the path to the River Station -- flattened and writhed when seized. July 16 Slept all AM - feeling lazy and bored. From approx 1330-1600 hr Ardell and I walked the vertebrate transect and check the two Agalychnis calcarifer sites on CCL. At 2124 hr I found an Dendrobates inscriptus, same size and on same branch as last night, except now approx 30cm (approx 1/3 TL) is extended down the sapling's trunk; head is tilted out at slight angle. At 2133 hr I found a Leptodeira septentrionalis approx 1.5m above water at the swamp edge, east end of the Cantarara at approx 3m S. of the boardwalk, crawling along a horizontal limb approx 3cm/second. At 2141 hr the Dendrobates is going down off (into the center) of a palm frond adjacent to the sapling - same palm as one was sketched over in December - and thus has moved approx 2m since last sight. July 17 This AM I walked the vertebrate transect w/ Wendy. July 18 This afternoon I walked CCC -> 550 to 950m and back to CCC -> CCL -> SOR to the River Station, checking and photographing the old (last year's) Agalychnis calcarifer breeding site - now filled w/ leaves and detritus and unused, although a little water has pooled at one edge. Yesterday AM Ardell went for a long walk, came back, sat down on a bench exhausted, and caught a
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Greene, H. 1991 July 18 (continued) neonate Spilotes pullatus on the chain next to him! Ronald Suarez will later send me a photo of a Spilotes (or Pseustes?) seen earlier this year said to be a bird's nest near the corridor. Orlando Vargas showed me a color print photo of a Clelia clelia eating an adult Bothrops asper, taken by Jauzie McHarque. July 19 at 0200h Mark, an undergraduate from U. Oklahoma working for Ola Finke, showed me an adult Lachesis muta at CCC 125 m. Mark and a British woman woke me (a surprise!) after encountering the snake when they came in from checking tree holes for damsel flies. The snake looked like a small adult, probably ~1.6m total length. It was ~30 cm from the boardwalks on the cleared trail on a slope, coiled tightly, round, ~3 complete rings of body loops w/ head up on them in an about S-coil and facing downslope parallel to the boardwalks. 1 Head and foreparts parallel to the ground. I returned ~ 0630h and couldn't find the snake. Yesterday Devin Graham (U. Miami) saw a collared forest falcon (Micrastur torquatus) fly up in one of his plots, and w/in 30 min. found a 1/2 eaten 1/2 grown agouti on an elevated fallen tree trunk - head & foreparts gone, entrails removed through the front, no smell and few flies. Last year Devin and Emmott Blankership (Auburn U.) saw a large snake they thought was clelia clelia eating a young armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus! I wonder if it was a Dynarodon
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Greene, H. 1991 July 19 (continued) Coisas since the incident was divined and that snake has a catholic diet. July 21 Returned from San José just after noon by bus (soccer game playing over the radio), having seen Wendy off on a plane yesterday so she can attend her friend's memorial service. In the interim Andell Mitchell processed 4 snakes: Epilotes pullatus (520+155 mm, 30g, ♂), Leptodeira septentrionalis (570+166 mm, 33g, ♀), Leptophis ahaetulla (800+476 mm, 65g, ♀, perhaps 4 eggs), and Boa constrictor (570-- + 77mm, 90g, ♂). Another somewhat smaller boa was also found w/in the last few days in the workshop (and this one on the suspension bridge) making us wonder if a litter was dropped somewhere near the corridor. This afternoon my roommate, Gustavo Vargas, was attracted by frog calls to what he thought was a small Lachesis holding a cream or brown large frog -- he has a photo, hopefully, which might resolve the identifications. At ~2200h I passed through the Cantarana Swamp -- water is >=30 cm over the boardwalks, but no rain since this AM. Hyphaeobatrachus & H. logarix calling; 1 ♂ Agalychnis saltator on a palm leaf ~1 m above water. An Adiantodes inornatus of same size in same place as on July 16: on horizontal branch of wood ~10cm from the main trunk, posture as before. Last night Devin Graham found cf. Synbranchus wiggli in the ditch beside SIRE ~400-600 m, TL~15cm, which I will use for frog egg palatability trials.
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Greene, H. 1991 July 22 Walked the vertebrate transect this AM w/ Paula Skilling (reptile keeper, Dallas Zoo) - in addition to numerous small herps (see separate data sheet) we saw several nice tracks of cf. Felis concolor and cf. small Panthera onca on the SUTA, going toward CC. Gustavo Vargas saw cat tracks further out the CC. After lunch I hiked CES -> LOC -> SAT 1200 to see cat tracks reported by Mike Keller, but found and tracing of Nausua. On the way out I met Gustavo, who directed me out Sendero La Chanchera for more tracks; saw numerous tracks of Nausua and 1 old of Felis pardalis. On CEN and SOC, the latter where Derin Graham had reported a cat track, I traced what might be Canis latrans. Isais Alvarado told me he has heard cyotes in the Puerto Viejo region recently, and supposed a guard here saw one this year. Also might be a dog. July 23 Rained most of the night before dawn. On the 21st ~2030h I caught a Leptodeira septentrionalis crawling beside the library (545+152mm, 36g) and palpated from it the hind toes of a juvenile Bufo marinus; snake thrashed, bit, and cloacal discharged while handled. Yesterday Derin Graham brought in a Tantilla melanocephalus (273+90mm, 6.0g, S), caught ~0600h crawling near the River Station. This afternoon Orlando Vargas walked to the three sites for Oxychris calcarifer to identify plants. At 550 850m, where Wendy Roberts studied last year, the
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Azarene, H. 1991 July 28 log is a marked GAPS project tree, Pentaclethra maculoba ; Julie Denslow should know when this tree fell. The breeding cavity is now filled w/ large dead leaves and although there is a little water, no evidence of frog breeding. There are numerous leaves of Philodendron inaequilaterum (Araceae) hanging right over the cavity. The overall site is heavily overgrown, and I got moderately severe chemical burns from some plant nearby. At CCH 750m the tree is a P. maculoba ; the plant w/ the old jelly grass attached is Syngonium sp. (Araceae). The large immature palm arching over the tip-up is Welfia georgii (Palmae) as Wendy thought. There is another small palm sapling (Bactris werdlana) growing straight from the tip-up through the syngonium w/ its fronds on the opposite end of the water-filled cavity. At CCH 210m the fallen tree is another P. maculoba (Mimosaceae); the marked plant near one end of the water-filled cavity is P. inaequilaterum. Orlando pointed out that P. maculoba is the commonest forest tree, the commonest treefall, and that its wood is resistant to decomposition; also it has very little buttressing. See Hartshorn's (1983) account in Costa Rican Natural History -- sounds like the range of A. calcarifer might match one of the three disjunct populations of P. maculoba. At 1444h I grabbed a subadult Khadinea decosta as it crawled into leaf litter on the CCH; it thrustled
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Freese, H. 1991 July 23 (continued) and discharged a foul chloral substance when handled. From ≈2130-2240 hr I worked the Cantarana Swang but saw no snakes; heard Hyla logyxa, saw 1♀ and ≥5 ♂♂ Azolychnis saltator. July 24 More hard rain before dawn and on the way to breakfast I hear Hyla elaeochroa in the Cantarana, but don't go in because it's above boot level on the boardwalks! From 0800 - 0930hr Paul, Gail Mitchell, Ardell and I checked the CCL 210 and 750m A. calcarifer sites. The water cavity at CCL 210m is 5.7m long, crab-hole to crab-hole. Then Paula and I donned waders and used Ardell's range finder to check some aspects of the A. saltator site in the Cantarana. The mass of moss-covered vines start ≈1.4m above boardwalks level and is 2.9m from the nearest railing in a horizontal path; it ends 4.45m up a hypotenuse to the vine; and the single vertical vine "ladder" hit the leafy Pentalethra branches where frogs spited at 9.7m up a hypotenuse from where I stood. After lunch I received a preserved Micrurus nigrocinctus that might have killed a woman, from Ronald Suarez. An elderly neighbor of his mother's complained of not feeling well after having been "spined" by something in her garden, and died a few hours later of
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Greer, H. 1991 July 24 (continued) apparent respiratory collapse and/or heart attack. The coral snake was killed in the garden, but not clear to anyone if it really bit her. He says coral snakes are encountered commonly, and he has seen children playing w/ them. Today 2 neonate Boa constrictor were found; one beside the ice machine in the porch of the lab, the other near a cabina -- and two others on the other side of the river last week. July 25 More rain before dawn--streams are flooded, ground saturated. Last night Ardell and Gail caught an enormous F Bothrops asper (1875+246 mm, 2.7 Kg) crossing CES at 450 m. This morning we palped a Telonics (148.545 MHz) into her w/out problems. I spent the late morning and most of the afternoon arranging for storage of gear, burying rottenfish (!), etc. x1600 h I walked to the Agalychnis calcarifer site at CCL 750 m to collect a tadpole, then found a new nest at CCL 210 m that wasn't there yesterday AM. This clutch is on the curved vertical surface 4.5 cm above the water & 43.5 cm from the E. (right as one faces the pool having stepped over the log) end of the pool. The jelly is clear and shiny, the egg capsules slightly opaque, and the eggs organize w/ a dark spot on the upper part. The mass is irregular, maximum width x 55 mm near the top & 5 eggs wide; 4 eggs wide near the bottom; and 82 mm in greatest
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H. H. 1991 July 25 (continued) vertical dimension. The mass is 2 eggs thick for most of its mass, 1 egg thick on the edges. I counted 32 eggs each of three attempts, although I possibly missed 1 or 2 inner eggs. There is clear jelly around and over the mass, and one apparent eggless capsule at the bottom tip. The eggs are beautiful, quite stunning really. Somewhat the mass seems to glow, at least in my mind--something like optimism is those seen embryos, amidst all the mosquitoes and decay. Walking back between the River Station and the Job clearing I was passed oncoming by a foraging Tamandua mexicana. Coming back from dinner I watched a Conepatus semi- striatus foraging beside the sidewalk--it progressed slowly (I walked very slowly to maintain distance), nose down and tail always up. The tail of this skunk is meager relative to U.S. species, pale gray or off-white, maybe an 2-3 cm diameter, and uniform color and shape--and always straight up. I don't think it perceived me so was impressed that the "defensive display" was continuous while foraging. Big frog chorus in the Cantarana Swamps at 1930hr despite a very bright moon. Went back at 2150hr w/ the class of Jeda Muñoz. Despite a luminous mist such that
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there, H. 1991 July 25 (continued) I could see plant forms w/out a flashlight, there were frogs calling - Hyla exquua, Lt. elroccata - and >= 6 ? Agalychnis saltator on leaves and branches. We saw an adult Imanbds inornatus immobile on a sappling ~ 5cm in diameter - stretched down the trunk almost straight, w/ ~ 15 cm of neck hazing out and down towards the nearby (<0.5m) water. July 26 Rain before dawn - very hot and humid after breakfast when we released the big ? Bothrops asper - she simply crawled rapidly out of sight. I leave the station today, go back to Berkeley tomorrow. August 3 Patel, Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here at the Hardys' house ~ 2030h, having left Berkeley ~ 1330 h yesterday and Barstow at 0700h this AM. Drove down Hwy 666 ~ /700-1830 h today to Douglas, hoping for Sistrurus but seeing only a pink Masticophis flagellum DOR right after I left I-10. Big storm to the NE as I drove up Hwy 80 from Douglas to Kodes, at I saw only a single Crotalus scutulatus on the road. August 4 Went w/ Dave Hardy, Bazney Torberlin, and Tony Snell ~ 0815h and found Crotalus molossus of #3 in the center of a large bush, on the ground in a tight coil w/ head horizontal and to edge of outer loops. At 0945 h driving from the store to the Hardys' a neonate Thamnophis cystopsis crossed the road in front of us. The Hardys left for Tucson after lunch. At 1615h, I
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Greene, IT. 1991 August 4 (continued) located C. molossus #3 ~50m east of this AM's site, across the road (S. side). Snake is stretched out w/ slight curves, immobile, and slow tongue-flicks - probably saw me. It is on the N. edge of the bottom of the Silver Creek channel, amidst junipers and rocks. I head back, and 1.3 mi. W. of Portal Rd. on the Paradise Rd. at 1630h I see an adult ♀ C. molossus (930+69mm, 455g) frozen, rod straight in mid road, head up- slope. She coils, rattles, and makes a couple of flash strikes as I catch her w/ tongs. Drove down to Hwy 80 and back. At 1735h C. molossus #3 is on the N. side of the road near the top of a 4m high embankment, ~50m farther E. of last site. Snake is stretched out w/ faint curve, immobile, head turned back toward me (I approached on the road). I walked W. to touch, drove down & checked embankment w/ binoculars at 1740h - no snake! At 1751h I found him shielded in open, immobile, ~30m NE of last site. I dropped to ground out of view and w/in seconds he resumes crawling slowly, moving rectilinear, w/ lots of tongue flicks. Travels ~20m to the W. by 1806h when I leave. After dinner I road hunted to Hwy 80 on Portal Rd., got only two fresh kit ♀ adult Pituophis ; saw 3 dead neonate, 1 dead small adult, and 1 live small adult C. atrox. August 5 I located C. molossus ♂ #3 at 0847h, ~75m NW and uphill from last site, crawling stretched out under a
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Dreare, H. 1991 August 5 (continued) juniper. By watching his head then whole body crawl past a rock I timed him at approx 1m/34 secs. Tongue flicks almost continuously, head makes small lateral movements, and he flows over the substrate (photos). As I head back for water and a snack to carry in search of #8, 5 preliminas (Tayassu tajacu) crossed single file going up from the sycamore's in Silver Creek to the center of our study area. They are strikingly larger than those I saw last month at La Selva, and have been walking - their hair is wet and matted. At 0920h I hear a possible rattle in an Opuntia at roadside as I pull up to the Hardys' house - sure that it's some sort of insect, I check anyway and catch an adult male Crotalus molossus (1025+73 mm, 732 g)! I started walking up the little mining road opposite the picnic pullout at our study site at 1000h and at 1040h located C. molossus #8 approx 100m N of the crest of Limestone Mountain ridge approx 200m E of the mining road. He is in a pile of reddish rock on a SW facing or W facing slope, partly exposed to sun from down among the rocks. The snake was coiled tightly w/ head tilted up the inner edge of an outer coil, and rattled once as I clamored down for a look and photos. At 1145h I find C. molossus #3 approx 300m W of last site, just N of and below crest of ridge between road and a ravine that runs under the one lane bridge to join Silver Creek. Early it was
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Greene, H. 1991 August 5 partly cloudy and warm, now it is hot! The snake is (continued) in shade under a 4m tall juniper, stretched upslope but w/ head drawn back into a tight S-coil beside the tree trunk. I sat 3 m away and leave at 1200h, and the snake's head has turned downslope. At 1239h as I drive up to the paved Cave Creek Rd. from the Hardys' dirt road, I catch an adult ♂ C. molossus (1135 + 80 mm, 1.12 kg) as it crawls slowly and straight into adjacent brush. Spent the afternoon processing snakes and visiting Wade Sherbrooke at the SWKS, who gave me 2 frozen Crotalus. At ~1800h Barry Tonberlin caught a small ♂ C. molossus (785 + 52 mm, 287g) in the yard of folks SW (up canyon) from the Hardys - thus the third today around their house. I drove after dark to Hwy 80 on Portal Rd. and back, saw only an ROR C. atrox. August 6 at 0809h I found Crotalus molossus ♂ #3 stretched at the top edge of embankment on N. side of Paradise Rd., in general area where he was on afternoon of the 4th - thus he has returned ~300m since yesterday. At 0824 he started crawling E. at ~2 m/minute w/ almost constant tongue flicking; at 0830h I lost him - I thought he was searching for a slope to cross down to the road. At 0845 h I relocated the snake ~3-4 m N. of the edge in open grass and acacia, crawling more slowly - ~5 m by 0850h.
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Greene, H. 1991 August 6 (continued) The snake spent 3 minutes crawling through a clump of long grass and small shrubs no more than 20x20 cm and spent the rest of the time moving slowly - always tongue-flicking and pushing its head into vegetation. I wonder if it's on the track of a ♀. At 0903 h it has again covered 5 m in 5 minutes, going uphill, and now crawls up over a 0.4 m high shrub and disappears. At 1033 h I find the snake in a tight coil at the base of a 4m juniper, >30m from last site, its head pointed at the base of the juniper trunk (photos). By 1130 h, back at the Hardys', a slow rain is falling. At 1414 h a large Masteriophis bilineatus zips across Cave Creek Rd in front of my truck, ~200 m SW of the turnoff to Paradise. August 12 Returned here after attending the SSAR meeting in Pennsylvania. Arrived ~1615 h. At 1728 h I located Crotalus molossus ♂ #3 ~200 m S of the road, perhaps 400-500 m SE of where I last saw him. The snake was in a tight coil w/ head up in an S-coil, as if hunting - among open grass on cobbles in a small gulch just below the edge of a much larger ravine, a branch of Silver Creek. I took two photos, and as I moved w/in 3m for the second he turned toward me - no rattling. Barry Tonberlin told me that two students from Cal Poly Pomona, last night on Aug 80 in Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, found
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H. H. 1991 August 12 DOR a "three foot" Lampropeltis getula that had (continued) eaten a "two foot" Rhinocheilus lecontei . Dave Hardy and I road hunted up to our Crotalus molossus study site, then E. to Hwy 80 in New Mexico, but found only a small adult Hypsiglena joriquata. August 13 at 0801h Dave and I located C. molossus #3 on the SE bank of a large branch of Silver Creek, ~40m SE and across the ravine from yesterday. When sighted he was stretched out on dead leaves among oaks and shrubs, and frozen when we first saw him - turned head as Dave approached, but no rattling. At 0805h he resumed crawling ENE parallel to stream channel. We watched him until 0816 - crawling ~2m/minute, body almost straight, constantly tongue-flicking. At 0938h we found C. molossus #8 on the main limestone mtn. ridge, ~500m WSW of the highest peak. The snake was in a crevice under a boulder (D<1m) w/ a loop of ~30cm and including the stomach out in bright hot sun - took photos. Dave spotted the head pointed at us from inside a side hole under the rock, but we saw and heard no reaction. At 0950 the snake had retreated out of sight while we talked a few meters away. This site is ~400m E of where I last saw the snake. At 1105h we found C. molossus #3 on the NW [opposite] side of the ravine he was in earlier, now above the edge
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These, H. 1991 August 13 and perhaps 200 m S. of the ridge point across (continued) the road, He is in deep shade, a tight flat coil w/ head in center near the base of one of three large contiguous juniper trees. Spent much of the afternoon preserving some snakes Barney Tonberlin gave me frozen. August 14 Dave and I located Crotalus molossus #3 at 0738h ~ 20 m NW of yesterday's last sight, ~ 16m S of culvert on W. bank of the ravine. The snake was well up on the slope in shade of a low bush, in a flat tight coil w/ head and neck in an S-coil and down in coils. I then left for Tucson to pick up Sally R. Zamudio (
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these, h. 1991 August 14 (continued) a Scirus - Crotalus molossus interaction. She noticed the squirrel pushing a little embankment of dirt, and saw it was facing a "3 ft. long" blacktail in pre-strike posture. A woman named Marge, of the SWRS kitchen staff, saw what she took to be two C. molossus mating - but Kelly questioned her and learned one rattler nushed the other, whereupon they rose entwined - thus surely male-male combat. We road-hunted to Arivaca, New Mexico and saw one each C. atrox, C. scutulatus, and C. viridis. August 15 Driving down from SWRS where I picked up Kelly, we saw a Urocyon fox cross the road in scrubland near the Forest Service entrance in Cave Creek Canyon. At 0836h we located C. molossus #3 at 75-10m ESE of the under road culvert, coiled flat in grass at the edge of a clearing, next to an Opuntia. At 0912h, as we huddled up Limestone Ridge, Kelly spotted a large (>=15cm) Scolopendra crustig at the base of an Opuntia patch among boulders - it was walking leisurely, swinging the head side to side, seemingly unaware of us. At 0957h we found C. molossus #8 at 30m west of yesterday's site, just over the S. lip of the main Limestone Ridge. He was under a dense shrub in rocks and leaves, frozen as if he had stuck or crawled out of a coil.
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Greene, H. 1991 August 15 We both think he looks heavy and well fed compared (continued) to C. mrollossus #3. We set out of sight, then checked #8 at 1025h, and his head is bent backe: Walking down the mountain we collected a gravid ? Throsaurus ornatus as a voucher for the study site. After lunch we processed rattlesnakes and a Pituphis mrelolencus Dave Hardy caught yesterday on the Paradise Rd. ~1 mi. NW of Portal (J 1166+175mm, 600g). at 1525h, we found Croialus mrollossus #3 on the E. bank of the same ravine, ~30m W of this Dmad across that ravine from where he was at 1730h on the 13th. The snake was in the open and rattled once as Dave walked up on him. At 1655h, C. mrollossus #8 is 3m SE of this DM, coiled under a boulder edge, w/ edge of coiland head pointing out; it is cool and overcast. As we hiked down the mountain I heard a dry rustle and saw a large Seeloperus clarki descend head-first the dry stalk of an agave. Every was chillng and there were stores in the distance, but we drove to the State Line and back, catchi a Tantilla migriceps on Portal Rd. and a Trimophodon between the store and the Hardys' house. August 16 Early this Am Dave was called about Neil Ford's
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Greene, H. 1991 August 16 (continued) Copperhead site. at 0855h we found Crotalus molossus #3 stretched on the NW bank of the same ravine, ~30m S of the August 13 site. At 0920 h we released the C. molossus found August 14 at its capture site near Paradise. At ~0930h Dave and Baeray converged from opposite directions on an adult male C. molossus (to be telemetered #9) as it crossed the road ~100m E. of the picnic pullout in our study area. At 1050 h, Kelly and I found C. molossus #8 under the edge of a boulder on a ledge, shaded by agaves, ocotillo, and a juniper tree skeleton, ~40m SW of last night's site (took 3 photos). After lunch we surgically implanted a transmitter in new C. molossus male #9 and processed another adult male found in the yard of Uncle Jensen in Portal this morning. I went to Douglas for dinner w/ Diane Wagner, and saw only 2 G. atrax on Hwy 80. August 17 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co, Arizona We left Portal at ~0500h and met Fred Wilson, Roger Roggs and Roger's son and friend here ~0800h. At 0715h as we topped Montecelna Pass an adult Nasua (patha, more yellow than I remember them in Costa Rica) ambled across the dirt road. We are here because Fred says Crotalus willardi are common. The site is ~d.l. 5700' open oak-juniper savanna, the ground fairly open w/ grasses and trees so spaced there isn't a closed canopy except near the canyon bottom near watercourse. It is the first right hand turn up a dirt road off.
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Freese, H. 1991 August 17 crossing Scotia Canyon on the road north along W. (continued) slopes of the mountains, and we can see the dark-green covered steep slopes of the main range to our east. Already warm, sunny, partly cloudy blue sky when we arrive. The canyon bottom has several side washes, and we walked up several on the south shaded side - Roger reported the other side was already hot and they find Crotalus willardi more active when it's cooler and wet compared to C. lpidus. There are rocks everywhere, even on the rounded gentle ridges between streambeds. At 0830 hr Dave Hardy spotted a young adult F C. willardi crossing a few meters in front of him over rocks and dead leaves on a WNW facing slope above a side canyon - he tumbled while trying to film w/ a video camera, and later there was good natural joking about him doing cartwheels of joy over finding the snake. When we closed in for capture the snake went under a ~20 cm F rock; when grasped w/ foregrs she turned and bit, never really struck, and didn't rattle (her stings is only 1 or 2 segment however, so...). At 0915 hr I suddenly heard rattling at my feet and saw a
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Hesse, H. 1991 August 17 (continued) main stream course (day) to say he'd found another, smaller adult ♂ C. willardi. There are oak leaves everywhere here, and the color pattern of these snakes is indeed difficult to see against them. In the meantime we saw 7 C. legitus including 4 juveniles, evidently neonates—all in rocks rubble; and 2 adult Thamnophis cyrtopsis. We parked near a large stock tank full of bullfrogs, from which extends a large green seepage plane. We left by #100hr and went to a swanky cafe in Bisbee to celebrate Kelly's 25th birthday - I took the 2 willardi in w/ me, in a "fanny pack", and we joked about "sir, could you check your ridgenosed rattlers at the door." Back at the Hardys, we processed the two snakes under light anesthesia, and I palped a rodent out that had been swallowed head-first. Because of the big fleshy hind feet I mistook the prey for a Netoma but later realized from the tail, forefoot, and skull it is a Thamnophis. Total Cochise Co. Arizona August 18 at 0805 hr we released Crotalus molossus #9 off the road near his capture site. At 0815 hr we found C. molossus #3, ~ 80 m NW of where Dave saw him on August 16. The snake was coiled and "dashed" off an open spot into acacia w/out rattling. At 0923 hr C molossus #8 is at the W. end of the main ridge, just before it drops to a shallow saddle ~ 150 m NE of the red rock outcrop where he retreated soon after surgery. The snake was in dense shade of shrubs under a
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Greene, H. 1991 August 18 (continued) cedar or juniper skeleton against a low flat rock outcrop. in a tight round coil w/head in the center. At 1640h I found C. molossus #9 50m NW of the release site beneath the telephone pole outcrop, in dense brush, coiled, rattled as I approached. at 1655h I found rock cairn? C. molossus #3 at [word illegible!], then 50m S in the N. edge of the stream channel stretched in dense grass; he rattled when I stepped w/in 2m, then coiled. after dinner road hunted to Hwy 80, then our study site, then to SWRS. August 19 at 0900h Dave and I caught a Thamnophis cyrtopsis on the record in the center of our study site (E. of the picnic pullout); it thrashed and cloacal discharged when handled. At 0940h we found C. molossus #3 ~15m SW of the rd. and 75-100m W. of yesterday's cairn - stretched upslope in clearing w/ head in an S-coil (2 photos). At 1105h we found C. molossus #8 ~20m N. of the 1st telephone pole - after we walked up to the ridge and back! (This happened because we failed to check the signal walking up...). He is in a tight coil in a cavity at the base of a big Opuntia w/ his head out. At 1230h there was a big electrical storm. From 1400-1600h we all went to Antelope Pass to help Barney run his assays of traps, finally quitting because of rain. Barney picked up a fresh DOR Masticophis flagellum on the way back. August 20 Kelly and I left ~0730h, stopped in Tucson to pick
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Hearn, H. 1991 August 20 up a chair for the Hardys' daughter and to visit the (continued) Desert Museum, then made to her grandmother's in Santa Barbara by approx 1000 hrs. August 21 Back to Berkeley. Postal, Cochise Co., Arizona September 27 Arrived here approx 1530 hrs, having flown from Berkeley to Tucson this AM, then rented a car at the airport. Stopped briefly to see Barney Tomberlin, then Sarah Schmidt at the U.S. Forest Service station in Care Creek Canyon. At 1620 hrs I located Grotalus molossus ♀ #10, SE and across the road from "Pole 1" and approx 100m NW of "Pole 8". She was in partial shade of dense acacia, on the sunny sides of a plant and facing a little clear path, with head upward and parallel to her light body coils (as if hunting). At 1701 hrs I found G. molossus ♂ #9 3m E. of Dave's flag from September 21. He is extended out from under the base of a dead agave, tail still hidden, w/ foreparts in a loose coil and an obvious food bulge; head tilted up. September 28 Indian Creek Canyon, Animas Mtns., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico We arrived here approx 0930 hrs (MDST), being Barney Tomberlin, Tony Snell, their friends Jeff and Kevin, and me. We met up w/ a group from New Mexico Game and Fish headed by Charlie Paine. They have various snakes caught the last few days, and I photographed the redder of two Grotalus willardi obscurus (374 + 38 mm, ♀, 55 g). I palpated a 6.2 g remnant of a juvenile Peromyscus, swallowed head-first from
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Greene, H. 1991 September 28 (continued) a subadult lampropeltis pyronelara (602+11gmm, 87g). From ~1030-1730 h Charlie and Dare Halldman (Silver City) and I hiked up the canyon, racing back ~1430 h at the top of a steep large talus slide from which Charlie had yesterday taken the C. willardi I photographed and a small adult C. lepidus. Along the way we saw several dozen Sceloporus janovii, a few S. virgatus, perhaps a dozen or more scats of Urobus americanus (Tony saw a bear too), and the little pit digging where Mead's Quail look for buried seeds and tiny tubers. At 1345 h we found a large adult Crotalus molosses (1020+80mm) sunning at the edge of boulders near the crest of an ENE facing slope, from which I palpated an adult Neotoma that had been swallowed head-first. The snake never rattled until I released it. At 1350 h we found a 50-60 cm total length C. molossus basking next to a boulder; it didn't rattle until pinned, and had no palpable food. As we walked down the creek bottom (water here and there), Charlie found a subadult lampropeltis pyronelara stretched over a rock in the center of a dry stretch of streambed. It bit, thrashed, & expelled foul cloacal contents when held. Returning to camp we learned 5 othe, C. molossus and a C. lepidus were seen by others. Barney bought in a large (~1m total length, 1 1/2 pounds)
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Greene, H. 1991 September 28 (continued) C. mdosos he found coiled and pointing out of a rock crevice behind yellow flowers! I palpated a juvenile rock squirrel (Spermophilus variegatus) from it, swallowed head-first (40 g remnants, hind foot ~45 mm). Both prey items were impressively digested - only hindquarters and full length of the bare spine remaining. We left ~1830h and had an unpleasant meal in Road Forks. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona September 29 Went to check the first two Cratulus mdosos w/ Baerey, Tony, Sarah Schmidt, and Christina Schwartz (former SWRS employee). At 0830h we found the signal of C. mdosos ~#9 ~20m NE of the Sept. 27 site, under a rock on the south side of the road. At 0845h we found C. mdosos ~#10 at exactly the same site and in the same posture as when I saw her two days ago. At 0905h we disturbed C. mdosos ~#3, ~150m W. of "Pole 1" in low scrub and grass; he has an obvious food bulge, not present when Dave Hardy checked him on Sept. 21. At 1015h I returned alone after breakfast to find C. mdosos ~#9 w/ a food bulge section of coil sticking out from under the boulder in full sun, visible from above when I stood. Went for camera and took photo from above at 1025h. Walked around and as I approached from below ~
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Greene, H. 1991 September 29 (continued) and approx 3m distant he slowly withdrew out of sight - now I wonder if he was initially exposed as we clamored up here earlier this AM. At 1135hr I found C. molossus #8 at the edge of a penicular ridge that extends N from the main ridge; he is approx 350m N of it, and maybe 650m NW of the main peak. The snake is in a tight coil against dead branches and a rock, facing an open path between it and a large grass clump - no visible food bulge and in a hunking posture. At 1215hr I located C. molossus #3 20m N of this #8 site, approx 5m down the W side of the big arroyo that runs N from the road where the pullout is. He is an open coil under a dead stump and live bush, the food lump on uphill side and in speckled sun. At 1230hr I found C. molossus #9 w/ his food lump in a hairpin coil w/ head out on top of it, both protruding a few cm out of his hole under the boulder in full sun. From approx 1725-1810hr I walked around the grassy area just E of the New Mexico State Line where there have been reputed sightings of Sistrurus catenatus. At 1748hr I spotted a large (approx 1/5m) Scolopendra (yellow-orange body, black posterior segments) seemingly feeding at the entrance of a Dipodomys spectabilis burrow. The centipede's head was invisible to me, turned into a side tunnel; its body slightly arched anteriorly and very fat. Squirmed when grasped w/ forceps. Barney Torberlin gave me a neonate Crotalus
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Greene, H. September 29 scutellatus, torn w/ [illegible] the posterior 1/5 of its body (continued) missing! September 30 Today I leave for Tucson, spend the night w/ Billie and Dave Hardy, then fly back to Berkeley in the morning. Today is spectacularly clear - a truly blue sky - w/ light freeze and warm sun. At 0828h I located Crotalus molossus [illegible] #9's signal coming from under the same boulder as yesterday. At 0839h I found C. molossus [illegible] #10 in exactly the same site and posture as before. At 0900 h. I spotted C. molossus #3 [illegible] 3m up the E. bank of the big arroyo, thus across it and [illegible] 20m from yesterday. I had walked w/in 2m and past, then realized the signal had shifted - he hadn't rattled, but instead was pulling up under the base of a yucca and faced out w/ head and neck in an S-coil. Next I walked around downslope from C. molossus #9 and checked w/ binoculars at 0915, 0930, and 0945 h. but no sign of the snake - the entrance hole is in full sun. At 1005h I returned up the arroyo to photograph C. molossus #3 - he is now in an open coil w/ the food bulge out in the sun, At 1020 h I couldn't see C. molossus #9 from above the boulder.
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H. Greene 1991-1998 Journal 1992 Arizona: Cochise, Pima Cos. Calif: San Bernardino Co.
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Breane, H. 1992 January 11 La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica
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Greene, H. 1992 March 7 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Drove down w/ David Hardy, arriving ~0900h, having flown to Tucson from Seattle yesterday. Flying in I could see water shining like mirrors in the afternoon sun down in the washes. Today was beautiful in the Chiricahuas Mtns. until late afternoon when large silver and dark clouds rolled in from the west and we got a little rain ~1700h. This AM we located 2 of our 4 radiotagged blacktailed rattlesnakes in our study site on Paradise Rd. At ~1035h we found Crotalus molossus male #9 in a deep arroyo at the east end of the area, perhaps 500m N of the road. The snake was in a boulder jumble, protected from the wind by the close-in canyon walls, coiled under a ledge facing SE - most of snake was in shade under edge of rock, but a possible food lump was stuck out in sun (scales visibly stretched for ~15-20cm - see photos). Only response to us was slow sweeping tongue flicks. Shaded air temp. at ~1m was ~17°C, in dirt in sun ~50 an out from the C. molossus was ~24°C. At ~1130h we found the signal of C. molossus male #3 in the cave where last year I found #6's signal; also could get strong signal at a precise spot on the ground above the cave and 4-5m back from lip of the overhang. I collected a clean string of snake vertebrae on top the "nive" of Nestora dung.
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Greene, H. 1992 March 7 (continued) in the care. Several carnivore scats on edges of the Neotoma stuff. F15's, mothes, in care. San Simon Cienega, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico We arrived here #/430h w/ Barney Tonberlin to check out a rattlesnake den in a cottonwood tree! There is a line of scattered cottonwood groves and we stopped close to the east end at a huge, broken up but still living tree. On the SW side there is a large cavity, filled w/ an apparent Neotoma nest # w/ at least 3 cavities, 1 extending >=1.5m down and out of sight around a turn. Rosting in tight coils were two visible Crotalus atrox and a third snake we could scarcely see under the ranges of the other two. Total lengths were #70cm to >=1.1 m. After some photographs the snakes cautiously crawled down out of sight, rattling as they disappeared from on top of the chips of the rat nest down into two of the holes. Bright sun, so the wood chips were undoubtedly warm. San Simon Cienega, Cochise Co., Arizona We arrived at a sight <=5 miles NW of the previous locality, parked at a fence that's on the state line, and climbed into Arizona. This is an earthen dike that extends >=200m out to a spillway, in the midst of the seasonally flooded Cienega. The surrounding area is flatland with dense, lush creosote bush the dominant plant. Granite Gap dominates one horizon, the Chiricahuas another. Around the concrete spillway abutment
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Threse, H. 1992 March 7 we found 5 adult Gotalus atrox, (continued)
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Heene, H. 1992 May 12 Mojave Desert San Bernardino Co. California William R. Branch (Fort Elizabeth Museum, South Africa), Jonathan B. Joso (my former Ph.D. student), and I drove out of Bechey at 400 and arrived in Barstow at 2100h. After getting motel rooms we drove to Pizgah Water and back without seeing any lizards or snakes - rather chilly & almost full moon. May 13 We spent the morning at Pisgah Lava Flow, mainly around Ken Norris' old shack and study site on the NW edge of the main flow. We saw numerous Callisaurus, Cnemidophorus, and Uta as well as several Sauromalus and Dipsoaurus - and Bill found 4 Phrynosoma platyrhinos, 2 in close proximity. After lunch at the Judlow Cafe, we went to Kelso Dunes and saw several nice big Ura scoparia. On the way back on Kelbaker Rd. we saw several Sceloporus magisteri on rocks and telephone poles, and caught 3 Xantusia vigilii under Yucca logs. We ate buffalo burgers at the Bagdad Cafe (nee Sidewinder), and talked to an old fellow who matter of factly told us he was a two-star general on active duty, an intelligence officer, and State Dept. operative, and a friend of the late Emperor of Ethiopia and some sort of queen of Ghana. Asked me where I was from, then claimed he started the School of Art and Engineering at UCB. Had all teeth on right top missing, a ready grin, and twinkling blue eyes. We word hunted several trips at Pisgah Lava Flow, and found (later released) 2 Crotalus cerastes and 2 Chionactus occipitalis.
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Greene, lt. 1992 March 14 = May Stopped at Pisgah Jarra Flow ≈ 0800h to release & photograph snakes. Noted that the Chiromactis, which last night in the dark only squealed and discharged cloacal contents, now coils, hisses as it strikes violently. Saw 2 nice big Throsaurus graciosa - a σ and ♀ on separate creosote bushes, each out on low dead branches barely. We left Jonathan at Pisgah where Phil Brylski will pick him up. Wats Rd., S. of I-40, San Bernardino Co., California. Bill and I drove about 2 mi down this dirt power line road on the advice of Claudia Duke, who says the area has a dense Gopherus population - but it is ≈1100h and hot and we see more. We watched a gravid Gambelia defecate while paused in the middle of the road; her head and foreparts were elevated, back bowed down, and tail arched high just posterior to the vent - for this reason we could easily see the bright orange underside of her tail. We walled around to some scattered yuccas and I found a small adult Hypsylora torquata between the underside of a yuccaloz and its separated banks. We arrived in Tucson ≈ 2030h, after joining the Tucson Mtn. Park and Dinner - several Bubo punctatus σ's calling around the Hardys' swimming pool. March 15 Spent the day at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and shopping in Tucson. March 16 Little Scotia Canyon, (Huachuca) Mtns. Cochise Co., Arizona The 3 of us arrived here ≈ 0800h w/ Fred Wilson & Phil Rubei to check on a radio-tagged Crotalus willardi , implanted by
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Greer, H. 1992 May 16 (continued) Dave & Fred ~1/week ago. Sunny and warm, seeming like summer because Arizona has had an unusually high amount of spring rain. At 0840h as we searched for a C. willardi in a side ravine, an adult ♂ Gyalopis lepidus rattled continuously from short grass at Dave's feet. I handled the snake, which felt light and had an empty gut. Soon after, we localized the large ♂ C. willardi to a spot on a terrace above the ravine bottom, ~1m from a hole next to a small tree. Fred had seen a snake of the same size at this site last year. At 0920h we spotted the radiotagged ♀ C. willardi coiled in the small rubble of the same ravine; she retreated beneath a small rock as we approached and never rattled. At 0932 as I walked over a ridge to the next ravine I saw a large, bright coppery band Elgaria kingii basking in dappled sun on a Nestoma stick nest built against a log - it retreated into the nest as I approached. At 1006h Fred caught a large smelly Thamnophis cyrtopsis basking on boulder rubble at the base of the dam that forms the edge of a large stock pond - the snake felt gravid some. At 1020h as we drove out a subadult (~75cm) Pituophis melanoleucus appeared stretched, stiffly kinked anteriorly, and immobile in the dirt road; it did not hiss or strike. E. side of Patagonia Mtns., Santa Cruz Co., Arizona We arrived here ~3 mom to check out a talus slope
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Here, A. 1992 May 16 (continued) above a dry stream bed, open oak woodland, where Fred and Phil saw 3 Grotalus willardi a few weeks ago. As we clamored up the rocks Phil heard a small rattler going out of sight, which we presume was that species because C. lepidus isn't known from here. At ~1220h Fred spotted a small adult ♂ C. molessus coiled among the talus slide, only partly visible. We hosed it out, discovered it was in pre- shed condition, and therefore didn't palp or otherwise restrain it. Patch May 17 Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Bill Branch, the Hardys, and I arrived here ~1100h. On the way in, near the E. Whitetail Canyon turnoff on the rd. from San Simon to Paradise, Bill and I checked a yearling Pituophis that was immobile in the dirt road just as described above; it hissed and struck when handled. At 1346h we located Crotalus molessus ♂ #9, appearing rather freshly shed w/ a good sized food bulge, sketch in loose curves in mottled sun under a bush; rattler visible, no visible response to us. At 1415h we found C. molessus ♂ #3 in a tight coil at the mouth of a small hole among rocks, ~½ snake exposed w/ head facing into the hole - obviously in pre-shed condition. By now a thunderstorm has rolled in, and we get off the slope as light rain starts. Dinner at the SWRS w/ Wade Sherbrooke.
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Greene, H. 1992 May 18 at 0815h we found Crotalus molossus #9 ♂, evidently under ground under a brush at the head of a small arroyo, ≈75m N of the road and ≈30 m ESE of yesterday's site. At 0851 h we found C. molossus ♀ #3 in a loose coil at the entrance of a hole in a small rock bluff, facing into the hole w/ dappled sun killing him. The snake is ≈1m W of yesterday's site and hasn't shed. Before lunch we implanted a transmitter in a Crotalus atrox from near Jeff Gee's house, E. of Portal (♂, 982+82 mm, 700g). At 1600 h. we located C. molossus #9's signal from a large Nestor nest 2-3 m S. of this NM's site, and now believe he was there all along. At 1620h we found C. molossus #3's signal at the same site as this NM but couldn't see the snake. Tonight Richard G. Zweifel told me this morning he found a Crotalus pricei that had been stepped on, a juvenile w/ hindquarters of a Sceloporus jarrovii in its stomach. May 19 This AM we helped Barney Torberlin check his pitfall trap grid in Artelepo Pass. Rained off and on much of the afternoon w/ frequent thunder as it has every day here - very unseasonable weather! In the afternoon we released the telemetered C. atrox at its capture site. After dinner, we road hunted almost to Animas, finding 3 Sceloporus couchi and 2 Rhincheilus decortei on Hwy 9, and a Gyalopium canum on Hwy 533. The latter thrashed from side to side in semirigid
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Greene, H. 1992 May 19 (continued) half coils, periodically loudly expelling small drops of fluid from its cloaca. Bill Brandt suggested that this works on herpetologists - the snake crawls off as they fall to the ground laughing. May 20 at 0810h Crotalus molossus #3 was invisible at the same site as yesterday - site is in shade. At 0830h we got C. molossus #9's signal at the same not rest, snake not visible. Next the Hardys, Bill, Tony Srell, and I went up to sites below Buena Vista Lookout. First we checked the E. faciz site where on several years we've found Crotalus pricei and C. molossus (site where the bull strangled), at 1010h we spotted an adult # Crotalus molossus w/ only head and 3-4 cm of mesh extended from under a rusty piece of metal x 1.5 m2 - same piece, when once found a C. pricei w/ a Sceloporus janovii in it. I walked over a ridge and north around the top of a steep open hillside where previously I found 2 C. molossus and saw the hung bull. At 1046h under a 30cm2 rock in a flat pile of rocks facing E., I found a yearly Jan propeltis pyromelana w/ a large food bulge that feels like a Sceloporus. Only response to handling was crawling. In the meantime Tony caught a Crotalus pricei adult under a rock and several S. janovii and S. virgatus, alternately slowly and chilly or bright sun. Next we drove to the Barfoot Slide
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Greene, H. 1992 May 20 (continued) for lunch and walked over the slide - at 12:15 hrs Bill found an adult C. piecei w/ opaque eyes tucked under a rock in sun and rattling, in a small patch of shrubs high on the slide. After stopping by the house, Dave and I checked our radiotagged blacktails. At 14:15 hr we spotted C. molossus #9 in a resting coil (flat, head down in it filled up) in dappled sun at the base of the woodrat nest. At 14:30 hrs we found C. molossus #3 in a tight resting coil at the same rock hole entrance, facing out w/ milky sapphires obvious blue eyes and still old skin, some sun hitting him. His 13 month old sutures are still visible. At 14:50 hr we encountered a small adult ?(?) crossing the road to the south <0.1 mi NW of the Forest Service cattle guard on our study site. Snake was frozen extended in sun when spotted. As we took photos, it crooked the neck in our direction & tongue-flicked. When grasped w/ a clamp stick it struck a short flashing jab at me - couldn't see if fangs were erect. At 15:20 hrs we located C. atrox ? #1 ~300 m NNW of release site ~200 m W. of the Gee's house. Snake was crawling slowly in straight line in shade of a large brush, but coiled and rattled as we approached to 2 m - it rattled continuously while we took notes etc. An impressive contrast w/ C. molossus.
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Greene, H. 1992 May 20 (continued) After dinner we processed the new Crotalus molossus (δ, 821+60 mm, 343 g, 9 rattle segments including button) and implanted a transmitter (148.450) in him. Then drove over to the Animas Rd. (Hwy 9?) and released the Rhinocaulus and Scaphiopus that Bill had photographed. May 21 Brief rain ~0400h. It has rained every afternoon & evening we've been here, sunny and partly cloudy in the mornings - just like summer monsoon season, except not as hot. Supposedly this has been a regular monsoon storm system for climatic years, and the Hardy's cannot remember a spring here this wet. at 0815h Bill and I located C. molossus #5's signal then saw him coiled ~30 cm back in the same hole as yesterday, skin still dull and dull. At 0820h Bill found a small Hypsiglena torquata under a dead agave at a point on the road near where at 0830h we got C. molossus #9's signal from the same rat nest as yesterday. We released C. molossus #11 downslope from where he was captured yesterday, transmitter keeping. At 0900h, I walked w/in 2 m of C. atrox #1 and first heard him rattle from underneath an acacia ~ 50-75m N of yesterday's site and 150-200m W of Jeff Gee's house. We packed up, met Barney Torberlin and Tony Swall at the Portal Store for breakfast, and headed for Texas.
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Greene, AZ 1992 May 24 Chiricahua Mtns, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived back here x 1900h, having left Texas at 0800h local time and driven x 800 miles. I delivered Bell Branch to Jim Murphy at the Dallas Zoo and picked up an Atheris superciliosa they gave me. Barney Torbalin says they've had rain, and hail everyday here, and it is chilly. He and Tom Sirelain bought me a Pituophis found under a railroad tie at Guadalupe Canyon, from which I palpued a Thonomyx. May 25 This AM is chilly at first, partly cloudy. No rain last night. At 0949 h I saw Crotalus molossus J #9 stretched out and motionless, to the north from out of the rock nest where last seen. At 1000h I found C. molossus #3 in an open hairpin coil x 50 cm in front of the rock cave where last sighted. His eyes are still blue and skin dull. I took several photos from various angles, but his only response was to flinch each time the flash went off. At 1027 h I found an adult Masticophis bilineatus active on open ground while searching for C. molossus #11. The whip snake thrashed, spun, and stuck when I seized it trying to crawl away. I found C. molossus #11 under a 50 cm2 boulder in the south side of the road and x 15 m NE of the release site. I now realize the latter is x 300-400 m west of capture site due to my error. At 1049 h as I drove in the study road a youngish looking Geozocryph scuttled
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Greese, H. 1992 May 25 along in front of my truck carrying an adult (continued) ♂ Sceloporus clarki - the lizard was clearly dead and battered (tongue clamped out of its own jaws) and had a short, barely regenerating tail. Sara Schmidt joined me for afternoon field work and we avoided thunderstorms by timing our visits to particular sites. At ~1330h we spotted C. mokolossus #11 up under the same rock as this AM. At 1345h we found C. mokolossus #9 in the same place as this AM, but now in an open hairpin coil w/ head started up the inside of a body curve. At 1402h C. mokolossus #3 in light sun ~1m east of this morning's site; as Sara moved closer for a photo he slowly and quietly crawled partly into the rock cave, but seemed reluctant to cease basking - no rattling. Next we drove to the Krazy Kantra to flip rocks along Kuchen Canyon Rd. - soon ran into Kim Murphy the same warden and had a good visit w/ him. Under rocks along the beach road we found numerous Cnemidophorus uniparens, a few Sceloporus undulatus, and one large ♂ Holbrookia maculata. At 1613h a subadult Crotalus scutulatus abruptly rattled from the edge of a grass clump from ~2m before we saw it, then crawled slowly off. At 1645h I caught a tiny brightly orange banded Sonora semiannulata under a stone - there was a definite under rock.
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Green, lt. 1992 May 25 (Continued) Tunnel into which the snake tried to escape. At 1652h as we drove back up to turn north on Hwy 80 a large St Tenapere ornata was crossing the dirt road. @ 1730h we localized the signal of Crotalus atrox #1 to a large woodrat nest under a mesquite tree, where Barney also found it on the 23rd. May 24 Overcast this AM, sun finally peing through at midmorning. at 1019h I spotted Crotalus molossus #11 still under a rock next to the road. At 1029h C. molossus #9 is stretched out North from the same woodrat nest, in this posture: at 1039h, Crotalus molossus #3 is out on a ledge ~1m from the opening of his rock cave, eyes still very blue. at 1058h. C. molossus #9 is now stretched fully extended from the rat nest, and I watched him continuously from a distance of ~15m across a small gully, from 1059h - 116 h. He initially crawled very slowly, evidently mainly w/ rectilinear locomotion.. He paused, lowered snout out of side behind a fallen branch (~x2-3cm) in some green leafy vegetation, and I could seeotypical bilateral jaw movement, so assume he was drinking (we had a shower earlier in the AM). After raising his head, the snake turned slowly to the right so that now the tail and rattle trailed straight toward the nest, perhaps
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Hess, H. 1992 May 26 (continued) 1/2 of his total length was extended straight, and his head rested slanted upward in the inside of an entire loop of the artery. I took photos, appropy slowly until I was crouched on hands and knees about 50 cm from his face - when he gave a very brief burst of rattle w/ no other movement. Next I picked up Barney Torbalin and Landon Concagh and at 1150 h we found Crotalus atrox #1 ~2m south of the same rot nest but under the edge of the droopy mosquite limbs - he rattled from ~1/2 km in front of me just as I spotted him. The snake seemed so distinctly more reddish Barney thought it wasn't our radiotagged animal but we confined the signal and spotted green paint at the rattle base. As I drove out of Portal for Tucson, via Paradise, checked on C. molossus # 9; now, at 1409 h, he has pulled the tail into a fairly tight symmetrical coil. May 27 Barstow, San Bernardino Co. California arrived here ~2130 h, having left Tucson this AM and had lunch w/ Dave Darrell, Bryan Sullivan, and C. Holycross at ASU-West in Phoenix. I road hunted National Trails Hwy from Indlow to Newberg Spring and picked up an adult ? Phyllodrymus decurtatus a few miles east of the RR crossing at Piagch Java Flow - only response to handling was a foul cloacal discharge and squiering.
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Greene, H. 1992 July 29 Tuesday, Pima Co., Arizona Arrived here approx 1630h after 8 hr drive from Barstow, having left Berkeley at 1400h yesterday. Heard David Foorman (formerly of "Earth First") speak at a slide show to raise money for "Sky Island Alliance", a group that promotes conservation of southern Arizona mountains. He is a charismatic and well informed speaker, who frequently refers to things and facts from scientists, with credit. Thunderstorm warning at dusk, rain as we emerged from the talk, and the Hardys' bridge was deep under water - so we drove around through a neighbor's pasture to a connecting yard! Several Scaphiopus calling loudly in roadside ditch. July 30 W. flank of Huachuca Mtns, approx 5700'd., Cochise Co., Arizona Visited our Crotalus willardi study sites w/ Dave Hardy and Fred Wilson. Sunny but not hot, ground moist. At 0940h we located the signal of Crotalus willardi #3 F under the end of a small high on the S. bank of the study ravine (Fred has full data). At 0955h we found C. willardi M #1 - a magnificent big greenish gray animal! - crawling from under a bunch grass clump, partly toward a nice sized reddish adult coiled approx 2/m away beside another clump. This is exactly where Fred saw him copulate last Saturday, seemingly w/ this red snake. At 1027h we spotted C. willardi F #2 fastly on a hillside; she crawled under the base of a grass clump w/out rattling, and I was very impressed w/ how well her
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H202, H. 1992 july 30 facial stripes blended w/ the basal dray grayish-white (continued) grass blades. At 1055h an adult ♂ Elgaria grass clump kingi by a rock in the ravine bottom. At x1130h Fred heard a rattle and spotted a subadult ♂ C. willardi unmarked, the 9th for our study. At 12/5h we found C. willardi ♂#1 coiled tightly, partially covering the also tightly coiled ♀, both well concealed under the edge of the bunch grass she occupied previously. Twice she moved slightly (her snout was initially under one of his coils), each time he jerkily touched her back 1-3 times. Saw Thosaurus and Cnemidophorus (sonorae?) on rocks and in oak leaf litter, respectively at 1330h the C. willardi pair were immobile in the same grass clump. Earlier we watched him crawling (searching for her?), frequent tongue-flicks and strange back and forth movements of head and neck - not limited. Fred and Dare have seen him and at least one of the ♀♀ do this before, suggesting it isn't just used by ♂♂ to search for ♀♀. july 30 Chiricahua Mtns, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here ~1800h, driving over from the Huachuca's on the drive I was studied by the darkly forested (almost brooding) Sierra San Jose visible just across the international border as I drove east toward Bisbee. In contrast, Mule Mountain behind Bisbee, which Joe Marshall mapped as heavily
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Greene, H. 1992 july 30 (continued) encinal (open oak woodland) definitely looks to open and dry for Grotalus willardi. july 31 Went searching for our radiotagged Crotalus molossus this AM w/ Tiny Snell, who last located them. At 0816h we found C. molossus #9 stretch immobile traveling downhill, ~150-200m above road and ~same distance NE (?) of his last site. At 0821h he resumed crawling. At 0844h saw a not active in catclaw and pickle pear as we searched for C. molossus #12 - found her at 0850h in a loose coil (I think we startled her) in thick brush ~100m N of road where Dare tagged her earlier, 50-75m NW of last site. At 0920h C. molossus #3 is under a boulder at the edge of a large ravine, ~35m WSW of Pole 1. His rattle and tail are extended out, and he tongue-flicked. At 1000h we found C. molossus #8 ~750m SW of his last site on the lower slopes of Round Valley, now only ~100m N of the main Finestore Ridge. He was shielded immobile, then crawled slowly and tongue-flicked. This is in dense grass and yucca in a general area he has used before. At 1105h we found C. molossus #11 3m SW of his July 11 site, in huriig coil perpendicular to a ~20cm diameter runway (photos). Wade Sherbooke gave me a preserved Natrixa palpied from a C. molossus at the Southwest Research Station earlier this month (HWG-22/2). After dinner I drove to Paradise
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Hoase, H. 1992 July 31 (continued) and back and heard a rattle 1.6 mi W of Portal at 1905h - stopped and found a ♂ C. molossus coiled in the roadside drainage gully (6 sqm/s or slightly tapered rattle, incomplete, 877+68mm, 502g, fees collected). I assumed a tightly coiled defensive posture, rattly and cresting backwards, and struck once when I approached. August 1 at 0902h I saw a huge Sceloporus lemos crawly slowly w/ lateral turns of the anterior, a few m from the shade of a prickly pear on gravel. It is overcast and not especially warm. At 0905h I spotted C. molossus ♂ #9 stretched over the lowest limb of a small acacia in grass, just east of the same sarine where I saw him in May (but farther W), and far east of yesterday's site. At 0908h he resumed crawly w/ continuous tongue flicks and frequent head turns over and down into grass clumps. He seems intense! I could hear his rattle "chatter" passively a few times as he moved through vegetation. By 0923h he had crawled a loop out into the grow east of the gully, then back over the boulder and it 75 cm up into the tree. At 0926h he crawled it 1 body length down the tree trunk, almost vertically and in a straight path then out into the grass again. At 0952hnd found C. molossus ♀ #12 in a hunky wil at the same site as yesterday, took photos. She faces the
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Heane, H. 1992 August 1 (continued) runway (down it from one side) from the edge of an Opuntia patch. at 10:21h I found C. molossus ♂ #3 at the same site as yesterday in a loose coil in sem-shade mosaic under vegetation next to the boulder. At ~10:45 I squatted across the ravine from where I saw C. molossus #9 earlier, today, looked up the gully and saw an adult ♂ C. molossus coiled tightly under a fallen agave next to a crevice under a boulder. (we later implanted him as #13, ♂ 964+78mm, 687g after regurgitating 2 of mostly Nestora totaling 53g). At 10:55h I found C. molossus #9 now 30-40m east of earlier site on the east edge of a small gully, under a boulder in shade, head facing out, tail sticking out and exposed. Stopped at the U.S. Forest Service Service Visitors Center, where yesterday a 45.5g ♀ Crotalus pricei (from Barfoot I think) gave birth to 2 dark young (3.6g, 3.9g) plus 2 "slugs." After processing the 2 ♂ C. molossus and releasing the unintended animal, Dave and I met Barry Torberlin to look for our 2 helvetered Crotalus atrox near Jeff Gye (sp?)'s house ~2 miles E. of Portal.
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Greene, H. 1992 August 1 (continued) at x1600h we found the big ? C. atrox that Dave raised in captivity, coiled beside a burrow in a mesquite clump. He looks dusty, pre-shed, and skinny. Walking back to the trucks Dave stepped on a dead agave that contained a wasp nest - we were chased, and I got a painful sting through a t-shirt just above my right hip. Tried the Extrags which eased the pain, but it was tender and bothersome and a x75cm welt all evening. At 1615h Barney spotted an adult ? C. atrox stretched straight and immobile in the middle of a sandy wash - didn't rattle until I walked quite close, then quickly lashed x3m up under a small bush, still rattly and in a static coil. At 1709h we found C. atrox tucked in a hole under the edge of a big Nedoma stick rest in a mesquite clump - posterior and tail are looped out and exposed to late afternoon sun, and it appears to have eaten (photos). August 2 Dave and I released Grotalus molossus ? #13 at his capture site and found C. molossus ? #9 a few dozen meters S. of yesterday's resting site under the boulder, both by x0815h (Dave took notes). At 0855h I spotted just the body and tail of C. molossus ? #3 protuding in shade from under the same boulder as last few days. At 1002h we spotted the yellow back of C. molossus ? #8 in grass, front of hole under a boulder, on top
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Grease, H. 1992 August 2 (continued) The ridge is level but S. of where he was yesterday (he was crawling this direction then). Moving within 3m we saw he was lying over a ? whose tail ran down into the hole -- almost immediately he made 3 quick jerks of his snout against her posterior, pointing toward her cloaca. They were in fright sun and it was getting hot. At 1012h the male crawled a few cm into the hole and froze. At 1018h he disappeared into the hole, leaving her in an irregular open coil w/ head facing back toward it a few cm in front of its entrance. At 1026h the ? started to crawl; the male's head and neck emerged immediately, then turned to parallel her neck and they both crawled back toward the entrance. I seized and pulled her out of a clump stick, he rattled and quickly retreated out of site. We took notes and started to leave. At 1038h saw the male out in the grass, continuously tongue-flicking and crawl a ~ 3-5m circle slowly, turning his snout down occasionally, and always tongue-flicking. (We implanted her this afternoon as #14, frog 8060, 860+45mm, 470g, 7 segments, parallel and incomplete). After lunch and the implant surgery, I processed 3 Crotalus molossus Tony Sorel and Barney Torberlin found in Guadalupe Canyon, Peloncillo Mtns., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico. Two were found on July 26th: ?,
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Greene, G. 1992 August 2 (continued) 908 +46 mm, 462 g, 9 segments, barely tapered, incomplete sting; ?, 888+64 mm, 447 g, 10 segments very slightly tapered, incomplete. A large ? was found at the same spot on July 30th: 1080 + 80 mm, 1.6 kg. Tony told me this latter snake was especially prone to strike as blacktails go. Went to SWRS for dinner at George Middenhof's invitation, and Tom Mathies (Virginia Polytechnic) gave me a Lampropeltis pyronelara he found DOR this AM, which has an obvious food bulge (? Sedopsis janorii 18g, snake 55.5 g). August 3 Woke up ~0600h to bright sunlight, so left early to release Crotalus molossus ? #14. Took me 34 minutes to walk from the pull-out up to the ridge and set C. molossus ? #8 from the same hole where we found him yesterday. Released #14 and urged her down the hole, rattling! At 0815h I found C. molossus ? #3 in a tight hairpin coil, head and tail not visible, in a crack in the SE side of the boulder where he's been since I arrived. Met Jay Cole and Carole Townsend (AMNH) at the pull-out to go see the others. 0903h: We found C. molossus ? #13 where released yesterday, except outshelled in partial sun up-savine from the fallen agar, his tail visible under the dried plant from down-savine. As we walked around for a look he retreated under the boulder and out of sight. At 0929h we located C. molossus ? #9 ~300 m SW of yesterday, just S. of the road under a
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Greene, H. 1992 August 3 (continued) ledge at top of big gully, on E side. He was pulling back under when I spotted him, and rattled very briefly. There is a Netoma nest under the ledge; at 0944 hr, as we walked E, we saw a huge Scolopendra heros crawling lazily in shade in the road cut. At 1004 hr we localized the signal of C. molossus #11 to a hole under a bush x 50m N. of the road and x 250m W. of the Forest Service Boundary. At 1046 hr we found C. molossus ♀ #12 roched into a cavity under Opuntia pads, x 2m from where she was heard yesterday. After lunch preserved a young ♂ C. molossus found in a shed a week or so ago at the Forest Service Visitor Center. August 5 Returned around 1030 hr after overnight at the SFAE meeting in El Paso. Went to Douglas w/ Sarah Schmidt to grocery shop and do laundry. On the way back stopped to see barn owls and pallid bats in the attic of an old house at the Bill Klute ranch. Big electric storms here and there x 1730 hr. Early this AM, 1035 hr, an adult Masticophis bilineatus zipped off the road into the Hardy's house. August 6 Started searching for radiotagged blacktails x 0800 hr. Vegetation is wet, puddles in road and in holes in rocks everywhere on Limestone Ridge. At 0856 hr I got clean signals from Crotalus molossus ♂ #8 and ♀ #14 from the same hole under rock where I left
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Grease, lt. 1992 August 6 (continued) them on August 3. Sunny and warm. at 0940 hr found C. molossus ♂ #3 in a loose coil w/ head up on one outer coil (i.e.,
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Greene, H. 1992 August 7 located the blacktails w/ Dave Hardy, Hart Welsh, & Amy Kind. at 0926 hr we found C. molossus ?#14 & C. molossus ? #8 lying loosely intertwined in grass at the entrance of the same hole under a boulder as last night. Their tails were crossed at the vent but they were not in copula. Occasionally the ? jerkily touched her back and tongue-flicked when she moved. At 09:42 hr they retreated slowly into the hole, her 1st and him blocking the entrance w/a coil, looking out. At 1045hr we found C. molossus ? #3 in the same site as yesterday, in a tight coil w/ head down in the cave - he jerked twice while I watched from 2 m, either because of insects or my presence? At 1120 hr we localized C. molossus ?#12 to approximately the same site but could not see her. At 1139 hr we found C. molossus ? #9's signal coming from behind the same rat nest under a ledge as before. At 1154hr we spotted C. molossus ? #13 (freq is 8774) immobile extended as if crawling, under a juniper tree in shade, ~300 m W. of previous site. At 1215 hr we spotted little ?#11 in exactly the same spot where I spooked him yesterday - he is in a hasty coil, facing W. After dinner Dave and I road hunted to the Siskaway site and got a DOR Salvadora early and chased a Crotalus scutulatus off the road at 2111 hr. Bright half moon.
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Atenee, H. 1992 August 8 at 0828h we found the signals from Natalus molossus # 88 and 14F at the same site, a small tuft of grass pushed down over the burrow - by them? Sunny & Warm. We waited until 0855h but they hadn't emerged. At 1004h I found C. molossus #3 on top of a huge Nestoma nest where he had been on June 28th, 500-750m 35W of yesterday's site. at ~1040h we found C. molossus F 12 under a boulder on a rock ledge in the general area we couldn't see her the last few days - she was in a hairpin coil of 3 equivalent length sections, w/ a food bulge >= 1/4 her body length, i.e., adult Nestoma or larger. By now I was exhausted due to trouble sleeping last night, so Bryan Jennings and Dave did the others. C. molossus #9 was still invisible behind the rat nest at 1103h. At 1145 h after a long walk they found C. molossus #13 hundreds of meters W. of yesterday, 75m N of the road, 15m E. and 50 m SSE of pole #1, coiled under a boulder, looking out, no reaction, in the shade. I went to Rodeo to do laundry, Fogdens arrived, and a great dinner of chiles rellenos. Broke up w/ Kelly by phone and went to bed shook up, then a tremendous thunder storm at 2200h - somethings such crashes that I imagined the canyon crumblng. I was in a rollaway bed by a picture window facing up canyon, and at fine the whole place was so brilliantly illuminated I could see distant geologic details. Heavy rain - 1.8" and 0.2" earlier in the afternoon.
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Acre, H. August 9 Went to the study site at 0800h w/ Billie, Dave, and the Fogdens; partly cloudy. At 0822h Dave got C. molossus ♂#13's sign from under a boulder ≈ 5m NNW of yesterday. At 0826h C. molossus ♀/12 at the same site as yesterday, visible back into the ledge in shade. At 0900h we found C. molossus ♂ #3 crawling in dense grass & acacia on the edge of large rains ≈ 200m S SE of yesterday, on W side of the big stream. The other channel of Silver Creek now has 1 m high waterfalls, and the main one runs muddy - more water here than I've ever seen. At 0939h we walk up an embankment opposite the ledge where C. molossus ♂#9 has been, got his sign behind us and spotted him in copulation w/ a large ♀ under the edge of a ceity plant next to the road! While we watch from a few m away he periodically engages in forward jerks (those are like fast japs) against her back, tongue flicks and occasional tail movements. They face the eastern morning sun, but it is still overcast. At times his tail arches in a "?" shape - his is parallel to the ground and he periodically lifts and lowers it. His right hemipenis is inserted, the basal few mm visible as swollen lavende. At 1017h we saw him push his hemipenis further into her, and at 1031h I clearly saw him use a rather arthward reverse rectilinear ascension to follow when she moves.
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Greene, D. 1992 August 9 (continued) At this point I left Dave filing and hiked fast up to the ridge. At 1122hr. I found C. molossus ?#8 and #14 lying side by side in sun at the same site. He is in a hairpin w/only head & tail out of burrow; she is fully exposed in a hairpin of two loop segments, and her cloacal region is swollen - I infer they have copulated. As I take photos, he retreats so that only his head is visible, watching me and/or her. Her head is partly under the edge of the adjacent coil and never moves. At 1202hr I'm back at the site of copulation and #9 seems to be pulling out or she is pulling off. At 1204hr they separate, we see his still everted and bifurcated hemipenis pull free. At 1207hr his hemipenis is completely retracted and we see what we presume is semen in the grass. When they separated he remained loosely coiled, she crawled slowly around the side of the agaric and I caught her w/out difficulty. We celebrated w/ a picnic lunch at the pull-out. After lunch we processed snakes: our new ? C. molossus #15 (frog. 8090), 897 + 52 mm, 635g, 5 segments incomplete and parallel; a from Cathedral Rock and a from near the Post Office - both requisitoted stomach contents (see catalogue for full data). We also processed two large C. atrox found last Wednesday (August 5) in combat by Karen Hayes
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Hree, 16. 1992 August 9 (continued) 1280 + 110 mm, 1.81 kg, 12 segments incomplete and parallel; 1270 + 111 mm, 2.11 kg, 6 segments incomplete and parallel. We all went to SWRS for dinner, and I picked up a regurgitated stomach contents of a Thamnoptis cyltopsia from Tom Matheis. August 10 While the Fogdens did photos, Dave and I worked at 0857h w/ our blacktails. We released C. molossus ♀ 15 at her capture site. At 0842h we found C. molossus ♂ #9 partly stretched and fairly fast in sun, disappearing under grass near the bottom of a ravine ~ 50 m N of Silver Creek and 150 m S of the road. At 0942h we found the signals of C. molossus ♂ 8 and ♀ 14 in the same hole, and we saw ~ 1/2 of #8's body extending from the hole in a hairpin - bend and fairly barely visible back in hole. At 1049h Dave spotted C. molossus ♂ 3 coiled in a rock retaining wall on the N side of Silver Creek just below the road at the "One Jane Bridge" sign. At 1109h we spotted C. molossus ♀ #12 in the same place - in shade, big food bulge still evident, and dirt on her face. At 1136 h, after a wild goose chase due to confusing signals from the rocky point, we found C. molossus ♂ 13 in shade, tucked up under a sotol plant. He is ~ 40m W. of Pole 1, and ~ 50m NW of yesterday, in a resting coil. At 1156h we found S. molossus ♀ 15 under a bush in shade
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Hearn, H. August 1 1992 August 10 (continued) ~30-40 m E. of release site, in the next small ravine E. Processed snakes all afternoon, then met Alden and Karen Hays at ~1800h to photograph 2 Crotalus atrox she had found in combat. Her slides and story are that the heavy ♂ consistently toppled the other. Had dinner w/ them. Alden says the San Bernardino Valley has never been as heavily grazed as the San Simon because there is no running water. We processed a Crotalus molossus ♂ from Paradise found yesterday at ~1800h (7 segments, incomplete, slightly tapered, 892 + 66 mm, 520g) and a Masticophis lateralis whose regurgitated mouse I preserved. August 11 David has a cold so we skip C. molossus ♂ #14 up on the ridge. At 0809h I walked right by the young ♂ C. molossus #11 crawling in dense brush below a limestone ridge - he didn't rattle, looks a little skinnier. At 0841h I spotted C. molossus ♀ #15 in a tight resting coil in shade ~1m S. of the road and ~10m E. of yesterday. At 0855h we found C. molossus ♂ #3 ~500m NE of yesterday under the shady W. side of a century plant, counting a few 8 segments, incomplete. When I first saw then their tails were crossed on the ground, postiors entwined and anteriors out of sight under the agar. They jerked tails apart as I moved, but he soon resumed forward jerks and tongue-flicks while
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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,
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Greese, H. 1992 August 11 (continued) 8 segments incomplete and slightly tapered, no stomach contents, frequency 8011; ♀ #17 (found w/ ♂ #3) 794+44 mm, 444 g, 6 segments incomplete and tapered, large meal in stomach (est. ≥ 75g) not palpated, frequency 8568. At 1632h (accompanied by Sarah Schmidt and 4 relatives) we found ♀ #15 ~1m closer to but still below the road. At 1700h we found C. molossus #9 under a large root of the 1st juniper on the edge of the ravine, where ♀ #16 had crawled this AM. August 12 Nearly overcast, cool. At 0818h we released C. molossus ♀ #16 at her capture site. At 0832h we found C. molossus ♂ #3 startled in the rock retaining wall and released C. molossus ♀ #17 beside him. At 1035h we located the signals from the same holes as previously. At 1130h we found the signal of C. molossus ♀ #12 at the same boulder, but couldn't see her and I detected a musty smell at the entrance. At 1136h C. molossus ♂ #13 ~100 m SSE of yesterday's site, ~40 m N of the road and 60m S. of Pole 1. At 1159h C. molossus ♂ #9 is on the east side of the ravine where I first saw him this month, ~75m N of the road. Dave, Michael Forger and I road hunted to Bernardino after dinner, and caught live Sistrurus catenatus and Bufo alvarius. August 13 Overcast and cool, some sun by late AM. At 0815h, we located the signals of C. molossus ♂ #3 & ♀ #17
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Greene, H. 1992 August 13 (continued) from under the boulders in front of (>1m) where they were yesterday. At 8027h we saw a Neonfa run (not fast) across the road at the pull-out. at 0848h C. molossus ♂13 under a rock and Opuntia patch at the top of a cliff 30m N. Pole 2 and ≥350m NW of yesterday's site, in a nesty or henty coil. Met John Georis (Philadelphia Zoo) and his girlfriend, who told us they saw a Nasua in this canyon last week. At 0927h we found the sign of C. molossus ♀12 in ≈ same site but couldn't see her. At 0927h. C. molossus ♀15 was coiled tight in exactly the same place where I spotted her late afternoon of August 12th. at 0934h C. molossus ♂9 is ≈100m N. of the road, stretched immobile, and rattled when I approached to 1.5m - I had already walked by him once - he is ≥200m W of yesterday's site. At 0949h C. molossus ♀6 is on the W. (opposite) side of her big ravine, emerging from a hole into which she withdrew. I approached to 2m. At 1017h C. molossus ♂11 is in a henty/nesty coil under the edge of an Opuntia ≈20m N. of the road. August 14 Sunny. At 0816h the signals of C. molossus ♂♂17 were at the same site, snakes not visible. At 0817h I spotted C. molossus ♀ at the exact site as yesterday. At 0833h we found C. molossus ♂9 at the base of rock in a henty coil. At 0904h we found the signal of C. molossus ♀12 at the same boulder
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Greene, H. 1992 August 14 (continued) as previously, but can't see the snake. At 0935h we found small ♂ C. molossus #11 in a coil under the same flogged brush where I found him w/ Jay Cole on August 3. At 1005h we could see ♂ #3 and ♀ #17 [illegible] top of the rock wall. At 1042h we found C. molossus ♂ #1[illegible] ≈ 100m N of the road and >100 m from yesterday's site, in a coil under an herb in rock cavity. At 1108h Dave and I finally spotted C. molossus ♂ #8 and ♀ #14 in wavy parallel coils, his head on top of hers and both immobile on the W. side of a bush in shade, ≈ 1 m from the boulder where they have been for days. At 1201h C. molossus ♀ #16 is 20m NNW of her last site, in a tight coil under a large horizontal limb of a big mesquite, no rattling or tongue-flicking. At 1725h on our way to the Zweifel's for dinner, we caught an adult Salvadora grahamiae in the road in late afternoon sun at the top of Silver Creek Canyon. August 15 Took photos of Dave and I w/ a blacktail for possible use on the dust jacket of the book I'm writing. At 0827h we located the signals of C. molossus ♂ #3 and ♀ #17 at the same site. At 0848h we found C. molossus ♀ #15 in a tight coil in shade ≈ 4m ESE of ♂ #9's August 13 site (PM) & ≈ 75m NNE yesterday. 0912h C. molossus ♂ #11 is crawling slowly through the low leaves of an agave ≈ 75m N of road & ≈ 200m W. of his last site. At 0934h C. molossus #16 is 3m
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Here, lt. 1992 August 15 N of yesterday's site, in a tight coil under a (continued) bush under the same big mesquite. at 1002h c. molossus M 9 is in a tight coil w/ tail out, head slightly over outer coil, under a bush at the base of a ledge 30m NNW of Pole 1. At 1013h we saw C. molossus F 12 at the entrance of her haunt, Snout muddy (dried) - so she is OK! At 1036h we watched from across the creek channel C. molossus M 3 and F 17 at the same site, he immobile in the shade of big bush, tail down in rocks, near where her head and coils are visible down in the rocks. Dave left for Tucson. At 1925h I was walking from the Posted Store to Sarah Schmidt's house, we were talking about not having a flashlight and how embarrassing for one to be bitten under such conditions, and an adult C. molossus blasted off from the darkness at the side of the road! August 16 Bright sun, clear sky, hot early. At 0840h I found signs of C. molossus M 8 and F 14 at the same site, but could not see the snakes. At 0919h the signs of C. molossus M 3 and F 17 are at the same site in the rock wall, and I saw her head sticking up from the rubble. At 0942h I spotted C. molossus F 12 looking at the entrance of
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Greene, H. 1992 August 16 (continued) boulder ~40m SW (below) Pole 1, but couldn't see him even though I drop down into a cleft beside it where the sign was strongest. At 1043h I found C. molossus ♀15 20m N of yesterday's site in a prickly pear/Neotoma nest conglomerate, signal only. At 1053h I found the sign of C. molossus ♀16 in a prickly pear/Neotoma conglomerate ~15m N of the big mesquite where she has been the past few days. I couldn't locate the sign of C. molossus ♂13, and didn't try for ♂11 because my receiver is out of charge. Returned to find 5 eggs of Diadophis are slit (this started last night, see separate notes); three hatched by late afternoon. August 17 Two more Diadophis have hatched, total 5; 3 are slit; 1 still unslit. At 0835h C. molossus ♂13 & ♀17's signs are in the same place. At 0857h I found C. molossus ♂#9 in a tight coil under the base of an alligator jumper on the N. base of Silver Creek, SSE of Pole 1. At 0905h I spotted C. molossus ♀#12 at the same overhang, in a different posture, posterior in sun, no obvious food lump (photos). At 0936h ♀#15 is crawling slowly through Opuntia in the open and rattled briefly when I passed within 1m; she is ~40m N of yesterday's site. At 0942h ♂#13 rattles at me from 2m at
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Greene, lt. 1992 August 17 (continued) the edge of Opuntia as he retreats; this is about the 100 m N of the road and 50 m W of his original capture site. at 0950h I found ♀ #16 out of sight under a rock near the last flag (same several vicinity as yesterday). at 1020h C. molossus ♂ #3 is stretched down the bark under the same bush, head out of sight in rocks, near where I can see the coil of presumptive (sign) ♀ #17. at 1030h ♂#3 pulls head out of the crevice where it was briefly visible against #17's coil. at 1032h ♂ #3 crawls E. into shade of bush and largely out of sight - couldn't see stitches, at 1040h I left. at 1052h C. molossus ♂#9 is in the same place, but his head extends several cm's out on the ground facing directly out of his coil and shelter. at 1126h I get the signal of C. atrox #2 at the same spot where it recently shed. at 1134h C. atrox #1 sign is in a hole among large Opuntia on a rocky slope below the radio relay; there is a Neotoma nest at the site, which is WSW of Gee's house and > 200m W of the fence where Dave and I found his signal last (at night). after dinner Sarah and I drove the road and saw nothing. August 18 Clear and hot by 0730h, gnats worst yet! Crotalus molossus ♂ #9 is hungry! at 0802h I found him in
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Greese, H. 1992 August 18 (continued) a small ravine that feeds Silver Creek from the south slope, ~150 m S. of the road, SE of Polo I & ~100 m ESE of yesterday. He is in a perfect hurlig coil in dappled sun, on the W. side of the bare channel (~40cm wide) facing across it - waiting for a rabbit? At 0822hr I localized the signals of C. molossus ?3 & ?17 at the same site as yesterday. At 0832hr C. molossus ?12 at the same place as yesterday, in a loose coil (just forming?) - Josh photos and she slowly retreated. As I drove by Alden Hayes driveway a subadult Masticophis bilineatus shot across the road. Last night Sarah Schmidt (U.S. Forest Service) gave me details of a combat bout between 2 C. molossus, observed by Larry Marting (Bisbee, also USFS) and another man on July 29, 1992, on a plateau by man-made rock formations above the USFS Visitors Information Center at the mouth of Care Creek Canyon. The snakes were "big, ~3" in diameter", winding up w/ each other, knocking each other down, hissing, raising 15-18" above the ground beside a "sage bush". The men watched for ~10 minutes; the snakes ignored them and were still "dancing" when they left. Sarah and I will leave before noon today for Tucson so I can give a talk to the local Herp Society.
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Greene, lt. 1992 August 19 Near Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona We arrived here ~0800h - w/ Sarah Schmidt, Dave Hardy, and Michael Fozder; met up w/ Fred Wilson and his friend Mike Mittelman from Staten Island. Warm & humid, some clouds, evidence of rain earlier today. at 0855h I grabbed a small adult Salvadora grahamiae crawling in rocks beside the road; it wretched and cloacal discharged, did not bite. Fred and Dave looked for our radiotagged Crotalus willardi while the rest of us searched the opposite (S. facing) slopes of the main canyon. Fred got a new subadult C. willardi in our study area (#10), which Michael used for photos. We went to search rocks piles in the main Scotia Canyon, and at 1030h I got a Crotalus lepidus which I wound then saw crawl beneath one of hundreds in a flat pile - but it went no deeper. Re-visited a Sceloporus clarkei (sawed), at ~1200h, while we sat on my tailgate eating lunch, Sarah spied a ?Phrynosoma douglasii in grass at our feet. Also saw several Urosaurus and Cnemidophorus, and 2 Thamnophis cyptopsis. Sarah identified all major trees & shrubs here: Arizona white oak, Emory oak, alligator juniper, Mexican pinyon, squawbush, a manzanita, sotol, cholla, a little "rainbow cactus". No other pines; the site seems to fit
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Greene, H. 1992 August 19 (continued) perfectly Joe Marshall's definition of encircling. The others returned to Tucson and Sarah and I returned to Portal around the south end of the Huachucaas, stopping for photos at Montezuma Pass (Coronado National Monument) - especially of the Sienna Madre to the southwest. As we drove through Douglas there was a black wall of storms to the east over the Peloncillos, and we hit the edge of it for a little rain. August 20 Portal, Chinicuas Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Bright sunny morning w/ a slight breeze. My right heel ligament is painful to the point I limp - a condition present since before the trips, made worse yesterday by sprinting to move a Tenapere off Hwy 80. So I only check 4 blacktails. First went w/ Sarah Schmidt to see her bat diet study site in a mine shaft on Dick & Fran Zweifel's place in Paradise. at 1015h I could see C. molossus ♂3 and ♀17 in adjacent crevices at the base of the upper rock retaining wall, ~3m W. of where they've been. At 1030h C. molossus ♀12 is in a loose coil w/ her posterior ¼ closest to the entrance, all in shade, same site where she has been since at least August 8. At 1047h I spotted C. molossus ♂9 in a resty coil in the shade of a juniper, 20m S. of Silver Creek ESE of Pole 1 and 300-400m E. of my last sighting of him - probably a level w/ mating site.
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Greene, H. 1992 August 21 I hunched slowly to the top of Limestone Mtn., heel aching, and fortunately started checking signals immediately - located C. molossus ♂ #8 on a rock shelf on one edge of a Sotal-sized grass clump ±75m W. of previous site and facing NE from the N side of the ridge. He was in an open coil head on rock, and looked tucked! I touched him gently w/ a stick and he flinched. C. molossus ♀ #13 signal comes from the same big grass clump, so they have changed site together. At 1020h C. molossus ♂ #17 is pulling her tail into the same crevice as yesterday - due to my arrival so close? No signal there for ♂3. At 1035h I found C. molossus ♂#3 ±200m N of that site, under the N. edge of a juniper in deep shade, in a hasty coil facing the trunk from the tree's edge - he is ±500-750m due W. of Pole 1 on the first ridge NE of the N. banks of Silver Creek and NE of the big ridge that parallels the road. At 1100h I found the signal of C. molossus ♀#12 under a rock under a large bush (Rhus choriophylla ) associated w/ Netorva nest, ±20m SE of last site and ±40m SE Pole 1. Barney gave me a ♀ Sceloporus clarkii he caught in Portal that died of heat in his truck. Went to Agua Prieta (Sonora, Mexico) for dinner w/ Sarah Schmidt and Wade Sherbrooke. As we passed through the
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there, ft. 1992 August 21 Kierl's Ranch ~18:30 hr we saw two herds of (continued) Antilocapra south of Hwy 80, each a group of females accompanied by a big male. August 22 at 0845 hr I found C. molossus ♀ #17 50m W on the same rock retaining wall, by a culvert pipe 2m below (S. of) the road. Note an old shed skin nearby. Today is overcast and humid. At 0910hr C. molossus ♂ #3 rattles and assumes a high coil at me from <2 m away on the opposite side of a bush - he is out crawling ~75 m NNW of yesterday's site and ~10m W of the mine road, due W. of Pole 1. At 0934hr I localized C. molossus ♀ #12's spiral to 2m above and S. of her previous long-term caching site. At 0951hr C. molossus ♂#9 is in a hunky coil in the open, on the edge of a ravine on S. side of Silver Creek, 30 m E. of yesterday. At 1021 hr C. molossus ♀ #16 is in a small steep gully below it between the right and center "dolphin heads" ~150m N of the road and ≤50m from her last site, in a resting coil tucked under a boulder. At 1045 hr I saw C. molossus ♂#13 crawling into a packrat nest under an Opuntia ~75 m NNW of the road on the E. edge of a ravine that ends near the W. edge of the main limestone ledge system - and he put his head out as if investigating me as I approach, which causes me to ponder if he's not on the trail of a ♀. At
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Greens, H. 1992 August 22 1050h he emerges out the N. side of the prickly pear (continued) tongue flicking and swining his head side to side, rattles and comes a few cm toward me when I moved, then resumed "searching." at 113h I returned to this site searching for C. molossus ♀ #15 (stupidly I didn't check for her signal earlier!) and found her under a boulder edge of ravine w/S. molossus ♂#13, ≈4 m NW of his earlier location, and saw him making "forward jerks." at 1154h I localized C. molossus ♂ #11 to a large sunac clumps over boulders below rimrock of the S. curving ridge that is the E. boundary of our "main" study area, ≥ 100 m N. of the road. After lunch I processed 2 Crotalus molossus caught for me at SWRS: ♀, 901+42 mm, 503 g, 9 segments, parallel, incomplete; ♂ 946+70 mm, 503 g, 8 segments, parallel, incomplete. August 23 Today is chilly and humid, w/a solid cloud bank down to ≈ 7000' and the ridge tops - feels like winter, but not cold. at 1025h Dave and I found C. molossus ♂ #8 alone in a hole under a boulder on the S. side of Finestone Mtn. ridgetop, ≈ 75 m WSW of yesterday - he was in a loose coil, head not visible. at 1032h we found C. molossus ♀ 14 under a group & ≈ 4 clumped sotal, invisible, ≥75 m E of ♂#8 and ≈ 5 of yesterday, on the S. edge of the ridge. At 1122 h. C. molossus ♂ #3 is ≈100 m W. of
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Grease, H. 1992 August 23 yesterday, crawlig slowly, during head side to side, (continued) tongue flicking, in low brush on the low plateau. At 1150h we found C. molossus ♀ #17 in a tight hair spin coil against the rock wall base in grass at the same site as yesterday. At 1217h C. molossus ♀ #17 is ≤ 50m N of former site, out of sight in a hole. At this point, viewing our study site, the main plants are juniper, sotol, agave, sunac, acacia, ocotillo, and prickly pear. Next came a frustrating but ultimately successful search, because we were rapidly running out of receiver power- signal going up and down in volume, losing then gaining directionality. At 1248h we found C. molossus ♂ #13 & ♀ #15 together to 30-50m NE of yesterday's site, in a loose coil w/♂ over ♀, tails not joined. We alternated bouts of Forward Jerks and Tail Searches w/ quiet, captured on video by Dave. At 1258h she whipped her tail so strongly that I could hear her rattles against vegetation from 4m away. They paused, he resumes FJ's at 130/h. afternoon spent packing, then dinner at the store w/ Sarah, Hardys, Barney, & Tony. August 24 left Portal, lunch w/ herp crew from Desert Museum in Tucson, then a 2-hour visit w/ Beth Gibson in Sedona. Drove to Kizmar tonight in a motel, to Berkeley manara.
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Greene, H. 1992 September 13 Chiricahua Mtns., Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here evening of the 11th and am just now getting out to look for the radiotagged Crotalus molossus. I flew down from Berkeley, on the downhill side of a bad cold, and spent most of yesterday napping. The plan was to meet Sarah Schmidt for dinner then hung up to SWRS on Friday night for a talk about bears to be given by local game warden Kim Murphy. 8/0 mile N of Portal on the San Simon Rd. I stopped to dodge a #1m Crotalus atrox off the road, then couldn't get the rental car out of
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Greene, H. 1992 September 13 edge of a Nestora nest in dense yellow flowers, at (continued) the edge of a small gully where several gullies meet x 50-75 m N. of the road and 150-200mW of Pole #1. Forgot to mention that last night before sunset Sarah and I hiked to Crystal Cave (between SWRS and Herb Martyr Dam) for a picnic dinner - spectacular views of canyon walls, full moon. September 14 Rain started before dawn and drizzled all PM and into the afternoon - I took it easy, still recovering from bronchitis and having asthma. September 15 Richard Berman, Sarah, and I saw a x1m Masticophis tilineatus dash across the road into Spoffords and Hardys at 0924hr. At 1026 h we found Crotalus molossus ♂ #13 in a nesty coil under an acacia, no response to us, rattle exposed, below the third
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Greene, H. 1992 September 15 saw a very small blacktail recently in grass (continued) near a coral. They knew the Wrights at Cornell U., and said Albert's lectures were totally disorganized, that he constantly inserted "Now,..." in his sentences. September 16 at 0858h in bright sun a large Scelopenda heros moved rapidly across Paradise Rd. in front of me in our study area. At 0920h I found Crotalus molossus # 9 in a tight coil in the shade of a 3m shrub, on the E. flood terrace of the Forest Service boundary canyon, just below where the 3 canyon drainages meet, ~200-300m N of the road. at 0933h I spotted C. molossus #11 crawling slowly and tongue-flicking, ~4m SW of yesterday's site. From 5/0:10-1035h I searched both sides of Junestone Ridge but could get no signal for C. molossus #8. At 1055h I localized the signal of C. molossus #14 to a hole w/ Neotoma nest in the main gray limestone outcrop near its W. end, perpendicular to and ~150-20am N of the road. At 1132h I found C. molossus #12 in a resty coil under a flat above the ground Opuntia pad - very hard to see - at the base of an acacia, at the base and W. end of the red rocks ridge & ~ perpendicular to the main road bend. In mid afternoon Sarah Schmidt and I went to upper East Whitetail Canyon to check out some old mine shafts for bats - she entered two while I puttered outside. Upper slopes cloaked in dark green, but still lots of ocotillo and century plants - and on the ground the sublimely beautiful
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Greene, H. 1992 September 16 (continued) Smokey Blue green agaves. At the first shaft we suddenly encountered a wash of cool, clammy air when we dropped into the vegetated trench above the failing, and the smell of guano. During tasks in late afternoon sun, we found a juvenile Thamnophis cystopsi (1702hr) cloacal discharge & flash, no biting) and a neonote Pituophis melanoleucus (1709 hr.) tail wilzate, hiss, stikes) backin on the dirt road. At 1806hr, after I walked up x 1 km through brush, we found L. molossus F # 15 +/- 20 m S of the road and >= 100 m E of the large road to the S & on the SW edge of the curve at the E. boundary of our main study area - she was crawling near the base of a juniper on open ground, and rattled at me briefly then coiled as we approached to x 2 m w/out first seeing her. September 17 Drove to Tucson and returned to Berkeley. Barney Torberlin gave me a Masticophis flagellum from Douglas, which showed up on the airport security X-ray in my jacket - fortunately the American West supervisor let me on anyway! September 21 Sarah Schmidt told me by phone that at x 1930hr tonight, after dark, she saw 2 Urocyon cross the road in our S study area - another potential predator on Crotalus molossus.
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Greene, H. 1992 October 10 Chiricahua Mtns., Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here last night in time for dinner, having driven from the Tucson airport w/ Mike Lipske, a writer for National Wildlife magazine. From 0900-1300h we walked over the blacktail study site and located four snakes (Dave Hardy has the detailed notes). I photographed C. molossus #13 under an Opuntia pad & C. molossus #11 basking from under the edge of a small boulder at roadside, foodbidge in the sun. Saw a large Sceloporus clarkei active on a ravine wall. At 1540h and ~1800h I spotted C. molossus #11 still out basking. At 1900h he was no longer visible, and I placed thermocouple leads from a Bailey Bat thermometer, in deep enough to measure shade and in soil x 20 cm out from the entrance to measure sun temperatures. As Sarah Schmidt and I drove down the Paradise Rd. toward Portal, on the east end of the study site, at 1910h we watched seven Tayassu tajacu cross the road: an adult, two young, an adult, two young, and finally a smallish adult w/ dorsal ruff up. October 11 Clear blue sky & warm, as yesterday. At 0850h C. molossus #11 was not visible, temperatures 18.3 C in shade, 19.7 C in sun. At 1043h I saw an active Spilosoma variegatus (and at least twice later this trip, Entanier). At 1130h
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Heane, H. 1992 October 11 C. molossus #11 had his coil in sun, shade 25.5 C, (continued) sun 44.1 C, head not visible. From 1130-1400h Dave Hardy, Mike Jipske, and I hiked to the upper east side of Forest Service boundary canyon to locate & photograph C. molossus #9 in a hunting coil perpendicular to a small steep ravine, then moved around the upper canyon to find C. molossus #15 barely visible under a small boulder on the east facing west rim - an exhilarating hike! At 1415h C. molossus #11 was barely visible deep in the shade of his cave, shade 31.7 C, sun 40.2 C. The site is amazingly dry compared to my last visit when everything seem lush and in full flowers. Now the yellow flowers are pale, like dry paper, and my boots crunch rather than swish as we walk through vegetation. It is very dusty, and the dust is as fine as tale. After a late lunch at the store, I talked w/ Helen Snyder who lives here and studies goshawks. She said on August 1 Ray Mendez picked up a big G Elaphe triaspis that she saw a DOR E. triaspis that contained a Peromyscus and that Barry Tomberlin knows about this, and that she found a Lampropeltis pyromelana in a can containing a mouse nest in her outhouse. At 1545h C. molossus #11's head was extended out from the inner cave to the
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Here, H. 1992 October 11 entrance, shade 30.4 C, sun 38.0 C. at 1834h (continued) he was coiled at the entrance, shade 24.4 C, sun 25.0 C (this was after sunset). Samuel Schmidt and I had dinner w/ Fran and Dick Zweifel in Paradise along w/ their houseguests, Ernest Karlstrom (former MVZ student of Stebbins) and his wife. At 2140h S. mormanus #11 was out of sight, shade 19.4 C, "sun" 17.9 C (dark). October 12
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Steele, H. 1993 July 24 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here x 1400h w/ Fred Wilson - I drove from Berkeley, picked Kelly Zamudio up at the Tucson airport yesterday afternoon. Warm, no recent rain but lots of green grass and insects. We located Crotalus willardi ? #8 tucked under bunch grass on the W. wall of the main canyon, face visible. Then C. wilbardi ?#15 under the edge of a rock in a ravine (the 5th from our "study" ravine), only edge of her body showing. At 1425h Kelly spotted an adult Sonora semiannulata wriggling across rocks in the sun. Later I palpated two small spiders w/ egg cases out of its stomach. At 1440h Kelly and Fred saw a small Salvadora in the brush pile where we found a C. lepidus w/ food lump on a previous trip. We found C. willardi ? #16 & ?#17 together in a bunch grass clump, and ? #14 stretched out in shade among rocks - when we approached to ~3m she crawled slowly x 2 m & investigated a rock cave, then froze; we left. Fred told me has repeatedly seen. C. lepidus turn to face pursuer as their tail disappears under a rock - thus people get stuck reaching in w/ tongs. We saw a ? Holozokia maculata in the ravine bottom (she ran fast several meters - surprised me as I'm used to this species being more sedentary), and heard bullfrogs calling from
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Green, H. 1993 July 24 (continued) The pond at the head of this canyon. We set up our tent near there. Beautiful peaceful dusk, various birds & occasional bullfrogs calling, night hawks flying by. Big sliver of a moon, lots of stars, thinking about Joe T. Marshall camping in these mountains from decades ago -- he would have known all the nocturnal bird noises. We were awakened early next morning (4:05 am?) by a very noisy raven conversation, and earlier I heard an animal tumble cobbles on the slope ~30 m away. Maybe a deer -- there are lots of droppings here and a small adult's carcass near the dry stream crossing just below camp -- chest and forelimbs all eaten away so perhaps a lion kill (seems too big for a bobcat to have done it). July 25 Cloudless blue sky at 0730 h, after breakfast. My altimeter reads ~1595-1620 m in the floor of Little Scotia Canyon near our campsite, but I haven't calibrated it since leaving Berkeley. Fred Wilson & Phil Pugliesi (his brother-in-law) arrived from Tucson @ 0745h and we set out to check the snakes (Fred to detailed notes). All of the C. willardi are in the same places, except that C. willardi ♀ #14 (gravid) is back under a red rock she has used in the past. No one is basking -- e.g., C. willardi ♀ #15 is several cm back in her crevice, head looking out. In our main study canyon Fred spotted an adult ♂ C. lepidus, and Phil a smaller one near C. willardi ♂ #8 -- w/in 10 m. They left after lunch. Kelly saw
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Heene, H. 1993 July 25 (continued) Urozaurus ornatus, Holbrookia maculata, Cnemidophorus and a ♀ Sceloporus scalaris in bunch grass - she also saw S. clarki. Fred & Phil left after lunch, July the new gravid ♀ C. willardi we found this AM. Kelly walked down main canyon bottom, spottted 2 Cnemidophorus snoae and found a young ? C. lepider which we processed (see Dared Hardy's C. willardi study site notebook. For the mid- afternoon I located all 5 helenated C. willardi back in their shelters - gravid ♀♀ # 14 & 15 under rocks, pair #16 & 17 under same bunch grass, and ♂#8 under bunch grass. Took photos of 14& 15. I found a neonate Phynosara doufosi active in the middle of the road. July 26 a warm cloudless morning. Sometime last night, before midnight, I heard again smsthing disturbig cobbles on a nearly slope - then a bird squawking from the same direction for a couple of minutes. at 0740h I found C. willardi ♂#8 in exact same place & posture - I now doubt that he has moved in the two days we've been here - on sunny east facing canyon wall. at 0750h I spotted C. willardi ♀ #15 under a rock on the left side of little gully on the west canyon wall, x1 m from the rock faciing down gully where she was yesterday - photos of her head & posterior body coil facin out in edge of sunlight. at 0820h. C. willardi ♂#16 & ♀ #17 under same bunch grass
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Greer, H. 1993 July 26 (continued) clump; I could see a coil and small head (?), all in shade. At 0830 hr. C. willardi ♀ #14 is ± 2 m uphill from the red rock where she was yesterday, under cleft of small rock, in shade, head face out. Walking back and checking stick piles, I wonder if C. lepidus hang out there because of the likelihood of arbustly scelopine lizards. At 0900 hr I checked out the rock piles below the earthen dam where we are camped and found an emaciated Thamnophis cyclopis (barky skeletoned out, w/ its entire tail gone and the stump necrotic [based on smell]). It could crawl reasonably fast tho not as rapidly as other adults I've caught here. No postloecal musk odor from handling. At 1020 hr I grabbed an adult ♂ (245±55 mm, no food in stomach) Sonora semiannulata as it dashed at my feet in rocks and sale leaves - in sun heat near shade. The orange and black bands are very obvious and disorienting when the snake crawls rapidly. It took refuge under a rock w/in 0.5 m where we caught it - squirmed when handled. At 1030 hr C. willardi ♀ #15 is in the same place, but now under downhill edge of rock in shade. She was facing out (but when I came close for a photo attempt she pulled her head out of sight). At 1055 hr C. willardi ♂ #16 and ♀ #17 are as before, the small head easily visible facing out. At 1100 hr C. willardi ♀ #14 is in same place - a few Jute
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Grease, ft. 1993 July 26 (continued) coulds to the west. It is dry now: we have seen Cnemidophorus , Urosaurus , Holbrookia , Phrynosoma , and two species of Sceloporus - but not Eumeces callicphalus and Elgaria kingi . The lemniscate Crotalus willardi are simply not moving. The spillway streambed is dry, only a single deep mud hole still darker color from the last time it held water (there are small tracks through it, I think Nasua - Kelly saw a glimpse of a long-tailed cat-size animal soon after we arrived that I suspect also was a coati ). There are a few (#6) collig lara catesbaiana around the big stock tank, and >= 1 in the overflow
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Greer, N. 1993 July 26 said "I have it on good authority that this is (continued) great microhabitat for ... [C. lepidus]" when I was interrupted by rattling and spotted an adult ? (x20" TL, possibly gravid) C. lepidus crawling under a rock in the jungle - lifted it and she was coiled facing out. She had basal + 6 segments, parallel and incomplete. I recorded her blotch code (in D.L. Hardy notebook for this site) and paint marked her. Back at camp we splashed ourselves w/ water, danced around naked, and split a Chihuahua beer. Cicadas in a nearby juniper tree, flies, butterflies going by. July 27 Another warm, clear morning - except still some white wispy clouds to the southwest. Over coffee the jays are yacking and flying back and forth across the canyon, and a low buzzing drone of flies is almost constant. Occasionally a single bullfrog calls. Last night I heard gentle rustling in the dry oak leaves x 30m SW of our tent and first thought it deer (a large antlerless one came through the swamp pond yesterday afternoon while we puttered in camp). After a few minutes I could distinguish two sources several meters apart and heard several jaw chomps. Looking out our back flap I saw two dark shapes emerge from the moon shadows of a small oak x 15m away, and woke Kelly. W/ flashlight we saw
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Greene, H. 1993 July 27 two javelinas (Tayassu tajacu), one distinctly (continued) larger. They seemed shy of the flashlight beam and moved away a few meters, but we could hear their rustlings for several minutes as they moved back toward the arroyo that runs west of camp. (main range of Huachuca mtros.) (not to scale) stock jars earthen dam rock pile camp C. willardi #144 west canyon ridge game trail C. lepidus #16 & 17 main study draw (ravine) C. willardi #8 C. willardi #15 east canyon ridge
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Greene, H. 1993 July 27 (continued) at 0805h we found Grotalus willardi ♂ #8 under the same clump of bunch grass, which is in sun, his head facing out. At 0815h I found C. willardi ♀ #15 under the downslope facing rock where we first spotted her this trip - a coil barely visible, couldn't see her head; in shade. At 0855h found C. willardi ♂ #16 and ♀ #17 signals from same bunch grass as before and could see edge of one body coil; in shade. At 0905h C. willardi ♀ #14 is under same small rock as yesterday, but can only see edge of body, not head; in shade. Walking on the east canyon slopes Kelly found another neonate Phymosa douglasi (she needs them for her DNA analysis of intraspecific phylogeny) and she hand caught a gravid Holcoshia maculata. at 1050h (w/out selenity gear) I spotted C. willardi ♀ #15 in the same crack, 6-8 cm from the entrance, her posterior body coil and head facing out; she is in shade, her rock in sun. At 1105h I saw a coil where C. willardi ♂ #16 & ♀ #17 were radiolocated this AM; their grassclumps is in hot sun but they are shaded. At 1110h I spotted C. willardi ♀ #14 in the same place, her rock slide in sun. Her head and a swollen posterior body coil are in shade just inside the entrance to the crevice. I am impressed by how inconspicuous are those gravid females. We broke camp after lunch and returned to Tucson, from where Kelly will fly to Seattle tomorrow July 29 Arrived back at Little Scotia Canyon at 0840h - sunny, obviously hasn't rained since we left. At 0850h I
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Greene, H. 1993 July 29 (continued) released C. willardi ♀ #18 at her exact capture site and she coiled under the rock facing out. At 0855 I checked the spot where C. willardi ♂ #16 & ♀ #17 were and could see coils of two snakes and a relatively large head looking out. At 0857h C. willardi ♀ #14 glides in the grass w/out rattling from a grass clump ~50m from her hole under the rock and disappears into it. At 0907h I spotted immature C. willardi ♂ #8 ~5m below his last site - at base of the rockslide in sun-shade mosaic. I actually heard him in the grass then saw him glide w/out rattling, continued slow crawl w/tongue flicks and a few ant-post head jerks. Photographed his pattern, including yellow paint dot on head & rattle. He has a recent & fairly large food belly. At 0920h I failed to spot C. willardi ♀ #15 at either of the crevices where she was earlier telemetrically located (I don't have the equipment w/me now). Next spent ~30 minutes in Scotia Canyon, walked to the large rock piles, then back by way of wooded opposite side of creek. At 0940 a juvenile Crotalus lignatus rattled as it escaped into oak leaves at the base of a tree - heard then saw it. There were many dead Vardus nearby, in shade. Driving south do so over Montezuma Pass &
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Horne, H. 1993 July 29 (continued) failed to catch a large Crotaphytus collaris in rocks; in the course of searching for it saw a Peromyscus and its grass cup nest under a small rock. July 30 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here yesterday PM from the Huachucas. at 0910 hr (after 40 minutes of searching !) I found Crotalus molossus ♀#12 under a large rock on the 1st high terrace south of Silver Creek & roughly opposite fde #1. She was in shade ≈30 cm back, facing out, rattle not visible, no food lump or other snake visible. at 0938 hr I spotted C. molossus ♂#3 crawling up a ±45° slope in the open sun at ±2-3 m minute, at least some rectilinear, near the crest of the ridge point S. of the one lane bridge on Silver Creek. After, I'd watch a few minutes he stopped 1/2 way in a juniper tree, his anterior out of sight and still away up a hole at the base. I left at [illegible] 0958. at 1040 hr I located C. molossus ♂#9's sign under boulders w/a rat nest ≈200 m N of the road ±100 m SSE of the middle "dolphin head" - in the same dears where he and ♂#13 were last August. Couldn't see him. July 31 at 0815 hr I located C. molossus ♀#15 in a cavity under a ledge like rock - she rattled when
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Keene, H. 1993 July 31 was sneaking up behind shrubs from ~3m away! (continued) I don't recall a concealed C. molossus rattly at me before! Clear and bright sun, she is in shade under rock. From 0830-0900h I sat above & east of her, jammed against a shrub on the edge of another rock - could only barely see an edge of her coils. Finally crawled down and lay ~0.5 m in front of her hideout, took photos of her coiled facing out. As I took the 3rd shot she extended her head ~20cm & tongue flicked, then retreated to shade and withdrew her head out of view. At 0955h I found C. molossus # 11 w/ his tail & posterior hanging out of a hole under a big belfer under a juniper in the east side of a big gulley that extends N. of Silver Creek. He has 7 segments, the last damaged, green paint on 3rd (basalis?). In the course of getting down to him (around a big Nestoma nest in the lodge system) I fell down the embankment breaking the antenna cable as I went through juniper limbs. Returned to Hardy's house for good cable hacks, started up to C. molossus # 9 w/ ~1/4 quart of water. Rock squirrel active until at 11:15 h, very hot. Kept following higher falling a lot because of worthless 1-yr. old Menill roots! Got pretty dehydrated, stopped
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Greene, H. 1993 July 31 (continued) periodically to let my sweat drenched bandana cool my head by convection in breeze. Finally found him wedged in a cervice of red rocks E or (by x20 m) the base of the big
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Greene, B. 1993 August (now "3#") ≈0.5 m away under the same root, (continued) also in a resting coil (data in molossus file). Some storm & light rain around dusk, and Vince Roth found a Micrurus erythreus active at his house that regurgitated a Leptolyphops. August 2 Met Glen and Deborah, two friends of Sarah Schmidt's from Santa Rosa, at the pullout at 0800 hr. We found C. molossus ♂#3 at the base of a bush in light sun, ≈5 m closer to the creek but still under the same tree foliage that sheltered him yesterday. As we looked on, he crawled ≤1m under the bush and recoiled no rattly. At 0840 hr I surprised C. molossus ♀#12 as she was coiled in a hunting coil in the foot trail ≈4 m NW of the Nestora nest where we found her yesterday —she uncoiled and crawled leisurely to the base of the stump and entered it - green paint on her 4th segment (base = 1st). As we walked down the east side of the gully along a fence line I spotted a large ♂ C. molossus (now #13) w/ his front ½ in a "beargrass" clump that harbored a rat nest - rattled but no strike as I put him in a bucket w/ torge. At 0950hr we spotted C. molossus ♂#11 crawling down & straight on an open fence ≈20 m W. of the
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Here, 1993 August 2 (continued) lodge where I saw him yesterday. He crawled between Glen's [oots as the 3 of us stood immobile - he was tongue flicking frequently the entire time and paused only a second or two to test the[oots and then crawled out of sight in bushes, after putting the news & at the Hardys' house and grabbing a sandwich I hiked up to the flaged site for C. m.[lossus # 14, used a flashlight and couldn't see her. Hiked over the top (a little tricky because this over a linestone escarpment where often one cannot safely reverse direction) and picked up her signal! Localized it to a hole in a shelf of rock (photos) & 75m ENE of the
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Greene, H. 1993 August 3 (continued) ♂ #19 at the N. edge of Silver Creek at the back of the pullout, intending to give him sometime to "get his bearings" before encountering the road. At 0805hr I released C. molossus ♂ #18 at his exact capture site - he disappeared quietly and leisurely down a hole in the rat nest. At 0815hr I localized the signal of C. molossus ♀ #12 to the base of a huge juniper on the S bank (actually 1st fence) of Silver Creek, ~50m W of the draw in which she was recently located. At 0820hr I checked the site where C. molossus ♂♂ 3 & 3A were yesterday but saw no blacktails. At 0830hr I spotted C. molossus ♂ #3 crawling E in the edge of the open area above the N bank of Silver Creek, ~50m E and above yesterday's site. He was crawling X straight at about 1m/45 seconds, tongue flicking, evidently unaware of me ~4m away. Next I hiked up to C. Molossus ♀ #15 taking ~30 minutes by way of the ridge (instead of up the canyon bottom). At 0940hr I could see an edge of her coil protruding from behind a corner in the same hole as last time, ~30cm from the entrance. At 1020hr I localized C. molossus ♂ #11 to an area of dense brush on a fence above the N bank of Silver Creek & about 50m SW of yesterday's site (he is ~55W of the gravid ♀ #15). I
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Heese, 14. 1993 August 3 (continued) crawled under the brush - very prickly! - but could not see him. That snake is especially adept at concealment above ground, thus he might have been in the ground, judging from the transmitter signal I was probably within 1m, thus merely a sound or movement. At 1700h a storm passed over this region that lasted until sometime after midnight, raining hard enough to make large pools on some roads - yet spotty enough to leave sections dry. I drove up Silver Creek Canyon at x 1715h and could actually see the boundary of one extremely localized shower a few meters ahead on the road. From x 1930-2200h I road hunted, first to Antelope Pass then to the San Bernardino Valley. Lots of toads - mainly Bufo cognatus I think. Got 5 snakes. A Thamnophis marcianus was twisted and writhing, obviously injured, and since a fude was coming I grabbed fast and tossed it on the passenger floorboard. A few minutes later it had disappeared, presumably beneath the seat, leaving a regurgitated toad. Much later, approaching the Hardys' house, I felt a snake crawl over my knee and as the cab-light saw and grasped the Thamnophis! Unloading the car I couldn't find the dead toad, and palpation revealed that at some point the snake had re-ingested it!
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Greene, H. 1993 August 4 Overcast and cool at 0700h, partly cloudy and warming up by ≈ 0915h. At 1030h C. molasius ♂ #12 is ≈ 20m SW of yesterday, up the S. bank of Silver Creek, in a hunting coil w/ her head up on the horizontal root of a large oak. At 1110 h C. molassus ♂ #3 is in a large Natoma nest on the N. ridge above Silver Creek, S. of the road at ≈75m W. of the pullout. Accompanied by Earl Rawlins and Ben Dial, neither of whom are up to any strenuous walking. August 5 Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Earl Rawlins, Ben Dial, and I spent last night at the "Western Motel" in Sierra Vista - strange little place run by Asian Indians w/ a porn channel on Cable TV and windows facing due east - so I was blasted away by sunlight ≈ 0500 h. We drove across the N. edge of Ft. Huachuca and thus could see that the terrain between the Huachucas and Whetstone Mtns- is oak savanna and thus not suitable for Crotalus willardi. We walked around Scotia Canyon for ≈ 1 ½ hrs beginning ≈0830h but saw no snakes. Earl lost his balance in the creek bed and it took Ben and I close to 30 minutes to get him she ≈15-20 feet up the embankment. He's 85 and has reconstructed knees, and
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Azeez, H. 1993 August 5 seemingly just lost control of his legs. Just (continued) as we reached the top Ben fell on his already injured arm - I felt glad we weren't far from the can! Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Cochise Co., AZ At 1020h we saw C. willardi B #16's head facing out of the same bunchgrass clump where I'd previously seen him and localized C. willardi F #17's signal to the same spot. I could not detect a signal for C. willardi F #18 - recently implanted and parturient. At 1030h I spotted C. willardi F #14 in a tight coil basking at the base of a grass clump ~0.5 m to the right of the rock where Fred Wilson & David Hardy saw her w/ the Langermannia pycnomelara - she crusted deliberately but rattled into shady overhang of that rock it faced out at edge, then yawned four times during the few minutes we watched her. At 1120h localized the signal of C. willardi B #8 to a rock in brush at the base of the
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Azara, H. 1993 August 5 (continued) On the N. side of her little ravine - second of the two rocks she used when I was camping here last month. Lunch at the Cactus Flower Cafe in Sonita - quesadilla platter (w/ large fresh bake chilis) and homemade fresh cherry pie! Portal, Chinichua Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona I drove back via Willcox (for groceries) and over the San Simon & Paradise Rd., checking some blacktails on the way. At 1700h C. molossus ♀ #12's signal was in a Neotoma nest at the base of a century plant ~75m W. of the pullout and ~20m S. of the road. At 1705h I spotted C. molossus ♂ #3 in a hunting coil in dense brush ~4m S. of the road and 1m W. of the pullout, August 6 Overcast and cooler this AM. At 0805h I photographed C. molossus ♂ #3 in a loose coil under the culvert on the S. side of the road just E. of the pullout. At 0830h, R.G. Zweifel gave me an adult C. molossus ♂ he found last night at the jet of the Paradise Rd. w/ the little spring Rd. a few dozen meters E. of the
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Greene, It. 1993 August 6 On the way back to Hardy's house I had a (continued) long chat w/ Kim Murphy, parked antiparallel in the road - about jaguars, dogs, rattles, powchors, professions, etc. at 0945h I came upon an adult ♂ C. molossus crossing the road 0.5 min NW of Care Creek Rd. motionless and < straight. At 1027h C. molossus ♂ #3 is still under the culvert, but now his head is on the ground, facing out, at the entrance - an arbush postho? at 1030h. C. molossus ♀ #12's signal comes from the same root tangle, and as I approach a young Speemopholis variegatus goes down a hole at the base of that oak tree. By 1115h it is sunny and hot and I spot C. molossus ♂ #9 in a hole in dirt at the base of a bush, a loop out in the sun - tight fit, head and tail underground. He is ~ 1/3 up slope from the deepest gully E. of Dolphin Head. At 1150h I set C. molossus ♂ #11's signed from a crestona nest around a large red at the end of the dirt road mig S. to Silver Creek, ~ 56m N. of Silver Creek. August 7 Overcast and cool. At 0800h I released C. molossus ♂ #20 and the C. alox from the pullout at their original capture sites. At 0840h I got C. molossus ♂ #3's signed from a Nestona nest
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Greene, H. 1993 August 7 (continued) c around a fallen juniper snag under a brush, x 75 m NE Pole 1, x 30 m NE of the "slate-green" outcrop that is NE Pole 1. I climb the ridge and the sun breaks out. At 0910h I find C. moloros F #14 facing E. in a loose coil under a red boulder ledge on the ledge of the ridge, x 35 m NW of last site. She was in dappled sun and didn't not move while I shot photos - couldn't see tail or posterior of body. Met John Groves (North Carolina Zoo) at the pullout and we tracked the signal of C. moloros F #12 to a rock pile under an capare (the 1st) x 75m E. of the pullout on the S. edge of the road, slightly SE of pole #1. John and I were racing to localize her because rain was starting and the lighting was disturbingly close. Spent the afternoon preparing to leave, as I learned yesterday I must be in Berkeley Monday night to prepare for an NSF Site Visit on Wednesday. So, I will attend the SWRS Advisory Council meeting tomorrow AM and then leave for California. Periodic storms this afternoon - I am leaving just as the monsoons are really getting going! Tremendous thunder storms periodically in the afternoon and
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Heene, H. 1993 August 7 evening. Limestone Mountain is daily visible (continued) from the Hardys' porch, through a veil of gray blue mist. The thunder rumbles in a wonderful way - like someone moving heavy furniture by sliding it, except it's as if the mountains are being jostled. August 8 attended SWRS Scientific Advisory Committee meeting (w/ Wade Sharbrooke, director; members C. J. Cole, T. R. Van Devender, G. A. Middendorf, myself, and Diane Wagner [grad. student]). Wade gave me 2 Crotalus viridis cerberus, a rattleless C. atrox, a dried DOR Sistrurus, and 2 Phrynosma douglasii + one of them's young for Kelly. A student volunteer gave me a C. molossus carcass (he kept the skin).
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H. Greene 1991-1998 Journal 1994 Calif: Contra Costa, San Joaquin Cos. one color photo Hypsiglena torquata Temperature/humidity tables
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Heene, H. 1994 April 30 Bionos Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., California On a field trip w/ my Natural History of the Vertebrates course, Elizabeth Barnosky (graduate student instructor) found a small Hypsiglena jorquata under a rock on an open hillside above the lower pair of lagoons (we had come in from the Athaniza Valley Rd. entrance). A student, Minna Huang, photographed it for me, as we could not collect it under the circumstances.
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Greene, lt. 1994 May 6 Coral Hollow, San Joaquin Co., California at about dusk, Brian Simon, a student in my Natural History of the Vertebrates course, found the shed skin of a Salvadora near the base of the grassy slope that forms the back (south) side of Castle Rocks. This is interesting because D.J. Vitti told me that as a kid he found a Salvadora just east of here but still in Coral Hollow. July 15 Two snakes received earlier, one a Tantilla hobartsmithi from Meredith Mahoney (grad. student here) and me a Crotalus willardi from Fred Wilson - this latter specimen received last Fall but not entered due to an error in the elevation sent me and our move to a new museum. The actual locality for the willardi is 1.2 mi S. of jet. of Hwy 83 and Ft. Huachuca Rd., 31° 31' 20" long., 110° 30' 5" lat., Range 18 E, Township 22 S; on section line of Sections 10 and 15, 300m from 12 mi. marker post (betw. 12 and 13 mi. markers, and 5 mi. W. of mouth of Algeita Canyon. Habitat is a rocky ridge w/ grass and oaks 200 m. wide then sloping down to 5000' on either side. Found AOR/DOR at 1740 hr on August 8, 1993, by F.M. Wilson. Rattle w/ 5 segments, stong taper, nubbin. ♂ 480 + 60 mm, 106.8 g, presumably in transit!
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Greene, D. 1994 July 17 Kelly Zamudio and I left Berkeley at ~17/5h, after watching Brasil [illegible] the World Cup in soccer. Spent the night at a Motel 6 in Kingman Mojave, California July 18 Went through a hailstorm E. of Kingman, Arizona, bad enough that we pulled off the high for a few minutes. Camped for the night at Sunset Crater National Monument. July 19 We drove through Wupatki National Monument, visiting first the mamesake ruin. Then stopped at Lomaki ruin ("beautiful house" in Hopi) where we saw several Uta. as I was currently on a Neotoma nest built in the windows of one ruin, Kelly pointed out a wren perched nervously nearby w/ a grasshopper in its bill; soon the bird landed on the Neotoma nest, and we heard unseen baby birds crying from within - to which the wren disappeared.
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- N. facing slope (mostly all in slide/mosaic) - main study ravine - clear skies; sunny 50% 26C bunch grass 69% 24C 53% 24C under rock shade 67% 24C 49% 25C bunch shade grass 65% 24C 60% 25C shade rock 70% 23C 53% 24C rock mosaic 73% 23C 68% 24C bunch grass shade 73% 24C 55% 25C bunch sun grass 65% 24C 53% 24C bunch mosaic grass 61% 24C 50% 25C bunch mosaic grass 65% 25C 64% 23C shade not available 75% 23C 73% 23C under rock shade 76% 22C 58% 24C mosaic under rock 67% 24C 53% 24C shade bunch grass 71% 24C 47% 26C mosaic rock 68% 26C 68% 23C rock shade 78% 23C 65% 28C not Sun available 53% 25C mosaic bunch grass 67% 24C 55% 24C mosaic not available 53% 26C bunch mosaic grass shade 61% 24C 61% 24C rock mosa 71% 24C 58% 24C bunch grass 78% 24C 50% 26C under rock 65% 25C 51% 25C bunch mosaic grass 67% 24C 46% 26C under sun 69% 25C 52% 24C rock mosaic 53% 24C
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SE facing slope; main study ravine - mostly shady/mosaic - after 20 min. hard rain @ 12:30PM 45% 29°C rock sun 67% 29°C bunch grass 43% 28°C sun grass 43% 29°C mosaic grass 43% 30°C mosaic grass 43% 30°C mosaic grass 38% 30°C mosaic bunch grass 47% 29°C bunch mosaic grass 66% 28°C 40% 29°C bunch grass shade 42% 29°C shade grass 42% 29°C mosaic not available 37% 31°C shade not available 43% 29°C bunch grass 62% 28°C 40% 29°C shade not available 40% 29°C bunch grass shade 39% 29°C shade not mosaic 35% 32°C sun grass 42% 31°C 43% 29°C shade rock 53% 32°C 41% 29°C bunch grass 64% 29°C 43% 29°C not mosaic 44% 28°C shade bunch grass 70% 27°C 42% 29°C not mosaic 38% 31°C bunch grass 63% 29°C 43% 29°C mosaic not available 39% 29°C shade not avail. 45% 28°C not mosaic not available 37% 31°C not mosaic not avail. 0:3:33PM
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- stream bed of main study ravine - overcast / partly cloudy July 28, 1999 start 8:19 AM end 8:47 AM 62% 24°C ebete (oo) bunch grass shade (oo) rock shade (oo) rock shade (oo) bunch grass mosaic 69% 23°C 69% 25°C not available 70% 24°C 69% 23°C 62% 24°C not available 71% 24°C rock shade rock shade rock mosaic 70% 23°C 67% 24°C not available not available 64% 25°C not available rock shade rock shade rock mosaic 63% 25°C 63% 25°C 56% 26°C sun rock mosaic rock mosaic rock sun 59% 26°C 57% 26°C not available 57% 24°C 64% 24°C 58% 24°C 63% 24°C 62% 26°C 55% 27°C shade 53% 27°C rock bunch grass sun rock sun 59% 27°C 50% 27°C not available mosaic not available 64% 27°C 58% 27°C 57% 23°C 69% 27°C
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- Overcast/Partial Cloudy - Stream bed of main study running
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- streambed and lower north slope - overcast and partly cloudy July 28, 1994 start 8:50 end 9:14 not available sun 63% 25C not avail. mosaic 57% 27C not avail. rock 48% 28C not avail. sun 57% 27C not available mosaic 57% 28C not avail. shade 53% 27C not avail. 67% 27C rock 48% 28C sun 57% 27C rock shade 56% 26C shade not avail. 54% 26C shade (oc) not avail. 54% 27C not avail sun 47% 29C rock mosaic 65% 27C bunch grass mosaic 65% 26C rock shade (oc) 65% 26C shade (oc) not avail. 55% 27C bunch grass (oc) 45% 29C rock mosaic 58% 27C rock mosaic 69% 26C rock shade (oc) 53% 26C shade (oc) not avail. 54% 27C bunch grass shade 50% 29C bunch grass mosaic 54% 27C log 55% 26C bunch grass shade (oc) 55% 26C rock shade (oc) 51% 26C rock mosaic 43% 29C rock mosaic 49% 28C mosaic 52% 26C ```
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July 30, 1994 N face of main study draw, 30 m N of deer skeleton, above where Phil found gravel ? in rocks at bottom last year. from bottom upslope. up canyon, Rained x 0100 - 0730 hrs. time 84% 20 Nock OC 84% 22 muslin 82% 21 muskin 81% 21 87% 19 North OC N/A 86% 19 muskin 84% 19 north OC 78% 21 OC 73% 21 80% 20 North 81% 20 sum muskin 82% 21 bunchgrass 87% 19 Nock 84% 19 north OC 82% 19 OC 77% 20 OC overcast start 0831 finish 0911 hrs sunny, fog clears 82% 21 Frenchgram muslin 80% 22 North muskin 80% 20 bunchgrass OC 85% 19 OC 82% 19 OC 82% 19 OC 83% 20 Nock Frenchgram shale 83% 19 North OC NA 86% 19 bunchgrass OC 86% 19 OC N/A 84% 19 OC P/O 84% 20 muslin 87% 19 muskin 82% 19 North OC 85% 19 Nock OC 86% 19 OC 87% 19 Nock 86% 20 Time upslope
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July 30, 1994 N face slope of main study draw, #/50m Sunny, pty cldy, lost rain early this AM. up canyon 1st fence & time up slope NA 29% 38° wet NA 36% 36° sun NA 28% 36° sun NA 35% 33° sun 65% noth 320 34% 320 sun NA 28% 42° sun 25% 40° sun 25% 59° north 63% 330 31% 340 sun NA 54% 330 moist up slope relaxed noth 38° 47% 41° sun 19% 41° north 47% 39° indie 22% 41° lunch time 45% 37° sum 21% 42° north 64% 34° north 44% 38° sun 33% 330 noth 37% 340 sun lunch time 51% 35° noth 54% 38° north 23% 40° lunch time 48% 36° sun 26% 37° north 29% 36° north 60% 31° moist 37% 350 start 1329m finish 1402m lunch time 35% 36° sun noth 30% 36° north 25% 39° overcast 50% 32° NA 26% 34° north 30% 35° shade lunch time 59% 30° sun 37% 320
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Shelte RH Shelte Surface RH N=206 X = 59.985 29-88 Grass RH 30-88 (N=87) X = 57.67 Rock RH 31-88(N=103) X = 63.3 Surface RH N=[illegible]275 X = 47.24 19-88% Total RH N= 275 x 47.24 206 x 59.99
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Greene, H. 1995 May 26 Trilha do Travessão, 0.5 km S. Córrego Capão da Mata, Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 1300 m el. Marcia C. Jara (recent PhD here under direction of J.J. Patton) gave me a slide of this locality and another of a dark Botherops she found here. She set traps for rodents and next day found the snake a short distance away, seemingly in a hunting coil, facing out from under the edge of a plant.
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Heere, H. 1997 May 27 Upper Tramway Station, Hong Kong We arrived in Hong Kong approx 0630hrs, having left L.A. approx 14 hours earlier on May 25. Group consists of James J. Patton, Margorie Matorcq, Theodore J. Paperfuss, David J. Hardy Jr., Kelly R. Zamudio, and me. Cleared customs and took ferry to island, then up tram to forested park. Kelly found a Tropidophorus under a rock approx 3m from a small stream at 330m -- very reminiscent of Neusticurus ophipus. May 28 Hanoi, Vietnam We arrived yesterday approx 600hr local time, very little trouble with our 17 pieces of checked luggage. Staying at Institute for Biological Resources and Ecology, courtesy of Cao Van Sung, Director and mammalogist. Joined by Michael McKae and Mark Moffett, journalist and photographer for National Geographic. Visited Zoological Museum to see Pseudoryx, then to market downtown, where various animals for sale - Python molurus, P. reticulatus, Varanus salvator, several V. bengalensis, some very sad looking Gekko gecko, and 2-3 Pararesolution deloustali. Cage bottoms made from old box playing cards.
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Acene, H. 1997 May 28 Mckae offered to treat us all to local (continued) cuisine, including Nikolai Orlov, Natasha Aranjera, Sergei, and Oleg - Russians who have joined us. Cap Vang Sung chose a little shack nearby and the meal was ghostly - brown foul dipping paste and strange meats! May 29 Tam Dao, Vietnam We arrived here x 1700 hr after ~4 hr ride in bus from Banoc. All plains of rice paddies until just when we rise up into the mountain ridges. Nikolai has bought or caught about 400 snakes so far. We are housed in a small hotel at the entrance of a high valley, just downslope from a field station where we will prepare specimens and the Russians are sleeping. After dark we walk a road around the upper edge of town, Lycop 2009 Pl., between mount pond & stream #17 x 950m el., and Dave spots an adult Trimeresurus stejnegeri in an arbush posture on a root across a trail that comes out of forest to the road - snake is at top of an embankment x1m above road, but only <=8 cm above gravel adjacent to root. Dense bamboo, trees, understory on either side of trail.
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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
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Heese, H. 1997 May 31 these sympatric pitvipers. We have a (continued) Vietnamese journalist with us who w/ no promptly has collected two newts, one of which already dead. At 1850hr we visit newt pond and see a Parasemotrior ~ 30cm under walk 1.5m from the bank, resting on a submerged cement bag. We walk up onto road along old french ruins and into them, and Dave Hardy found an orange-bogged Scelopendra at 1940hr. At 2030hr Kelly finds a head and shoulders of a rat (white belly) w/ rest of torso clearly eaten (?) off, at 960m. Mark Muffett found a fly blown mole about the same time. At about 2130hr I sensed smelly like a mosquito bite on lateral surface of right hand and little finger; by 2300 hr the whole digit red and swollen. June 1 Finger still red and swollen, tends to bend, especially in joints. Hunter kay in Leioptelis multianctus, which forms S-cvil, bites, and often protrudes blue tongue. At 1545hr we installed a Hobo data logger at "Stream#1." Kelly and I walked up to TV tower, 1230m at top.
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Hlee, H. 1997 June 1 at 1655h Kelly installed a Hobo data (continued) logger at "Box 24", ~3m into forest and SW of the stairs at 1195 m. After dark I got a huge (23g) caterpillar out of a tree, ~5 m up - Dave Hardy spotted it. June 2 Last night at dinner, teasing Mark Moffett about being a Harvard PhD, he says "So I guess Silence of the Lambs is a procedural manual at Berkeley?" While we pickle snakes, a German tourist comes by to chat, comes here to collect snakes and is very excited about having an "Elaphe leonardi - never before photographed! Dave Hardy asks him about permits and he says "Please ask me an easier question." At night we descend the bed of "Stream #3" w/ Ted, who at 1955h, 895 m, grabs an immature Sinoratrix trianguligera as it swims in a small pool. At 2110h, 870m, I grab a small Amolops ~20 cm above ground on a small plant ~3m from the stream bed. Later, walking the Upper Loop Road we catch a Geleho sinensis 30cm above ground on a stone wall, 2215h, 955m. Ted catches an Elaphe porphyracea crossing the road at 2225h
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Greene, H. 1997 June 2 (continued) 950m; it struggles and bites when seized. June 3 We have a routine of processing animals and photographing animals in the morning, a map after lunch, and hunting from x 1830-2230hr. Tonight we check the old French stone ruins on the upper loop road. At x 2100hr Kelly finds a Jycodon crawling on rocky ground among sparse plants beside ruin stairs, 960m; struggles, bites and cloacal discharges when handled - I've noticed Jycodon hang on an seem to nibble the front teeth when held. At 2115 Kelly spots a Diroiden (we think this is an undescribed species, maybe new genus) crawling slowly in the concrete ditch between road and rock wall, x 960m; it struggles and bites when handled. At the next pond, at 2145hr, I spot a medium size Sinonatrix trianguligera w/ just head protruding from surface vegetation mat, x 3m out from bank. After several minutes Kelly tosses a stick beyond it, thinking to drive the snake forward, but instead it seems to pursue the
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Greene, H. 1997 June 3 (continued) splash - swims rapidly on the surface in a broad arc of x 5m, out by the splash, then returns near shore where I grab it. Snake bites, cloacal discharges, and spins along its entire long axis. Nikolai agrees w/ my hunch that a fair proportion have incomplete tails. Tonight he and the other Russians got Pareas, Lycodon, 2 of the new Dirodon, and his putative new genus - a cat-eyed big snake that looks a lot like Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus, that we are informally calling "Pseudoboiga". I agree it is a dramatically new species and Nikolai says it has different teeth than Boiga. June 4 fight at plots animals in the morning. Still no rain since we arrived! Scattered clouds and thunder some afternoons. Forest seems dry, streambeds are dry except for small pools. Hunters brought in a striped juvenile Sus scrofa, and its meat was excellent. We walked out "old french road" for ~ 3 hrs, and missed a Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus - it was crawling straight in trail toward us and suddenly rapidly escaped
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Heere, H. 1997 June 4 (continued) off trail in dense vegetation, 980 m. At one point I thought five people w/ headlamps were approaching us from scattered points, but they were just the largest brightest fireflies I've ever seen! Checked the next pond - 1 Sinorithis trianguligera juvenile no Pararesolutus. Ted meanwhile had gone to Vinh Yen with the Natl. Geographic folks to visit a snake market, and bought me a huge pregnant Enhydris bennetti. June 5 Mike, Mark Cuc, Natasha, and Nikolai left early to attend a wildlife release ceremony in Ba Vay, to be gone two days. Last night Ted caught an adult Trimeresurus muerosquamatus (♂ 745+174 mm, 97g) which we GT implanted under light anesthesia (≈1.5g radio, 148.716). We released him at capture site on middle loop road, ≈100 m from jet. with upper loop road, ≈1845hr. Walked down middle loop road to cisterns on old french ruin slab to collect 10 Polypedtes leucostepes. Walking back up we find a T. muerosquamatus in coil, possibly just retracted as we walked up, on edge of road at 2005 hr, 905 m. At 2100hr
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Greene, H. 1997 June 5 we cannot relocate signal of our T. (continued) mucusquannatus . W/ Kelly we catch 10 more Polypedetes leucosyrax and 2 Pararesoliton at newt pond. June 6 Restless night, we left the balcony doors open and maybe weren't used to frogs and other night sounds. Still hot, no rain since we arrived! at 1100hr Dave and I seek telemetered T. mucusquannatus , walking ~200m at road as well as over bluff of grassy ruin above rock wall. Very hot and sunny. Tam Dao seems to be prospering, so to speak: well dressed couples w/ parasols stroll the loop road where we hunt snakes at night, now sounds of hammers and electric saws from all around valley below. At 1205hr I check water temp at edge of newt pond, ~6 cm below surface, 27.7 C. Photo of kids w/ their fish net stung out into pond. As I get ready to right walk at 1800, feel sticky patches in my clean shirt, large dipteran [?] falls out, and discover several 2-4 cm patches of tiny yellow eggs on my belly, back, arms! We try again and
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Heere, H. 1997 June 6 fail to locate telemetered T. microsquamos (continued) along rock wall, both from middle loop road and upper loop road. At 2015h, 9:05m, as we walk down road at "Stream #3" a car passes and we find it has just hit a smallish T. microsquamos. We visit the big waterfall see 8-12 frogs scattered over the almost vertical wet rock face. Frogs seem to be a meter or more out from the actual taffort; Anolops ad one big ? Rana livida are >=5m up, but several smaller R. livida are w/in 1-2 m of the pool at the bottom. June 7 ~=10:30 we implant an adult ♂ Trimereessus sejnegeii (565+15/mm, 55g) that Oleg caught last night near "Stream #2." Note that last night I saw a 30cm 10-15 mm ♠ earthworm - one often sees earthworms here and they seem surprisingly resistant to dessication. Not only do we often see them out and crawling but mes we find dusty on the road die alive. Makes more understandable the episteme of a large seasonal duirsd worm-eater, Cyclopsis major. This morning Nikolai told me that the Xeropeltis he gave me had regurgitated an ♠ophusina
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Azores, H. 1997 June 7 Stotola. Lunch included fried hard boiled eggs, a first for us all. We always have at least one kind of cooked vegetable or greens, e.g., shredded squash cooked w/ small pieces of beef. Usually one or two other meat dishes, small chunks sometimes mixed w/ onions and tomatoes. Usually we fresh fruit - mango, papaya, watermelon. We supplement w/ bread and peanutbutter - always rice, sometimes sticky w/ some other small yellow grain cooked in it. at 1900hr we release Trimeresurus stejnegeri w/ radio ("TS#1") at capture site, among huge boulders in bed of "stream E," above where it crosses the road near the tower stairs and approx 30 m above some sort of new concrete water (?) facility. The snake immediately went under a 3m boulder on the edge of the stream. At 1905hr, just as barely dark in forest Megophrys lateralis start blasting so loud we have to harass nearby males to hear the telemetry receivers! We are at approx 970m dc. We saw big thunderheads to the west at 1800hr and BP has dropped 933-919, but still no rain. By 1945hr TS#1 has moved 3-4 m above big boulders of stream
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June 7, bed into a bamboo thicket on the West (continued)(?) or away from staircase side of stream, but we can't see him. Descend to road and walk. at 2015hr, 905m, 2 Polypedates leucomystay 2m above ground, ±50m from staircase toward old french ruins. at 2020hr, opposite side of road, a P. leucomystay 40cm above ground. (I am collecting these for Kelly, who is investigating the possibility that there are two morphs or species of this froz.) at 2040 hr I watch a moderate size orange-legged Scelopendra crawling on a tree limb 2.5m up, horizontal, seemingly foraging, swing foreparts side to side. At 2055hr Dave Hardy spots a big ♂ Trimeresurus stejnegeri (598+148mm, 69.5g), ±20m toward staircase from junction of newt panel road on upper loop road, 905m. The snake was in an ambush posture on a dead horizontal bamboo stick (10 mm φ) connecting for 35cm a live vertical bamboo, to which snake's tail connected, and a 10cm φ tree fern trunk, ±2.2m up. We photographed and snake only struggled when I
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Greene, H 1997 June 7 (continued) seized gently w/ forgs. at 2117h I catch a P. leucorhytax on a vertical stick in the concrete ditch, 45m above ground, ~50m toward old french ruins on upper loop road from jet, w/ west pond road. June 8 Still clear and hot. We GI implant the green pitriper now "TS#2." This afternoon during El Nafio Kelly found a fish in my right elbow and another in my beard the latter slightly implanted in my chin - a first. I wonder if they are the fruits of sharing space w/ mammalogsists. at 1835h we release TS#2 at the capture site and he crawls up the tree fern trunk had out of sight into adjacent bamboo, seemingly unhurried. at 1920h, 960m, we get TS#1 signed ~20m downstream & ~3m away on same side of stream, seemingly in bamboo, but can't see him. Kelly catches two Amolops richellii on small cascade face under a big boulder, one w/ 2 leeches and one without. While she's under there spot a Simonyx trianguligera pletively from tiny pool, which I catch - it spins and bites.
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Keene, H. 1997 June 8 (continued) As we walk down stream, discover that strongest TS#1 signal is uphill from the concrete water facility. At 2025hr we get a P. lewcomptax 10m from Stream 1 toward old french ruins, 925m, 1m above ditch on a stick; 5 m further, a large frog 1.5 m above ground. At 2045hr we locate TS#2 signal near red bud and 15 m toward old french ruins from first site. Going by newt pond I spot two seemingly slender reddish snakes in the stagnant pool below the spillway bridge, manage to catch one and get good look at the other, and they are Sinonatrix triangularis. June 9 Hot and clear, talking about water shortage in Tam Dao; Nibalan has been coming here for years and has never seen such a dearth of rain. While we process newts, frogs, and snakes, Dave goes to check the two Trimeresurus stejnegeri, returns at 1200 - couldn't get signal from TS#2 localized signal of TS#1 to a small area in leaf litter, but couldn't see the snake. Annolops nickettii from last night had shed two leeches in the bag, and today one is
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Hesse, H. 1997 June 9 back in! We photographed and videotaped (continued) leech partially emerging and retreating the vent, and presumed must be in gut. After frog died during handling I opened the ventral skin and then the ventral peritoneum confirming that the leech is in the coelomic cavity and pushing it w/ forceps as it retreats behind organs. After lunch trouble napping because so muggy and I am sweating on the pillow. At 1720 hr, looking out room balcony and musing, the sky is largely cloudy, cicadas starting their loud buzzing, a big blue and black butterfly cruises over the foliage below. There are many beetles in Tam Dao (Nikolai says 1500 species of cerambycids), and lots of lepidoptera, spiders (including a totally black woolish tarantula Mash got out of a burrow in a rodent), hornets, flies, grasshoppers, crickets, leafydid, and ants - but, the guide book not withstanding, very damn few birds. In fact, the first birds I've actually seen were last night - four tiny songbirds w/ a downy look (mainly white from below, striped heads),
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Heene, H. 1997 June 9 (continued) as if nestlings or fledglings sitting on a leafless branch protruding vertically ~2m above surrounding vegetation against a black starry sky. They were huddled in a line, two facing each way w/ heads over the branch, so we could only clearly count them by the four clearly divergent short tails, two angled out to each side. They looked very lonely vulnerable, almost desperate - safe from climbing snakes or ly because of the extreme dryness which has snakes lurked down (Nikolai found two Bungarus multicinctus last night, one under a rock and one buried in leaf litter, such that he glimpsed only a tiny patch of pattern). At first the little clump of birds looked odd and unrecognizable, perhaps a strange inflorescence. Also as we readied for last night's walk, well before dark several raindrops landed but no downpour. At ~1900hr Kelly catches an Anolops richettii under the same boulder in Stream #2 as the earlier two, and suddenly about ten seconds of rain falls, just enough that I
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Greene, H. 1997 June 9 (continued) slip on a slightly boulder and Crash off part of my lantern. at approx 1930hr, Dave Hardy locates and we photograph TS#1 in a hunchy posture approx 1m above ground on slope toward down above concrete path by water facility. Site is approx 30m up slope in moderately dense vegetation, perhaps 50-75m from release site. The viper is on sort of a stick tripod w/ its tail grasping a vertical stick below the horizontal body and S-coil in anterior. When I moved closer (<2m) for photo, he slowly moved up a dead end branch, retracted and crossed horizontally on connecting vegetation to adjacent branches. Occasional tongue flicks but the snake didn't seem disturbed. At 1945hr as we walked the upper loop road, got a Polypedates lecercosagastar approx 20cm above ground in dense vegetation, just above road cut, between Tower stairs and Stream #1. I had to lift Kelly up the embankment and she semi-fell down barging her arms and back. I found two small yellow birds roosting together 3m up in bamboo. At 2035hr
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Heere, H. 1997 June 9 (continued) we watch a 50-60cm Sinonatrix trianguligera in water a few meters from the deep end shore of the newt pond; it crawls w/ head raised above surface vegetation, often tongue flicking. We catch a 3cm Polypedates leucostigma and throw it from above, lands ~30cm from the watersnake. The frog hops once, and the snake dashes, chases across surface for ~3m and catches the frog underwater! For ~3 minutes we can see only movement beneath surface vegetation and an occasional out-poking frog foot or snout. Then snake head emerges holding frog at waist, swims 2m over surface vegetation w/ the frog dangling and seemingly immobile, and swallows the frog bump first w/ ~20cm of the snake actually up on the shore. Finished at 2041Hrs, tongue flicks, and crawls back into and under water. At 2044Hm we throw down another frog, which is seized at 2045:37, twice jaw-walked over torso and then initiated head-first ingestion at 2046:27, finishes and tongue flicks at 2047:52, goes under water and emerges heady,
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Greene, H. 1997 June 9 (continued) tongue flicks. About 2050 in the snake swims under surface directly ~5cm above a Pseudechis guttatus without any evidence of recognition by either. Then snake swims two 4-5 m long, wide arcs out into the pond, seemingly chasing distant water insects and/or tadpoles. We see a 2 cm water insect move ~30cm on surface vegetation and suddenly two nearly juvenile Sinomatrix trianguligera materialize and liven toward it, then away and out of our view. Then we see a second 50-60 cm Sinomatrix resting in subsurface vegetation ~3m from shore w/ delicious sagging food load. We throw two Polypedates near it but snake no attacks. At the station Nikolai has caught a big F Dingodon cf. myoxodon w/obvious food burst, from which I palp a head-first swallowed large gravid F Megophrys latonii. In the process Kelly and I are each bitten repeatedly by the snake, and it sprays cloacal gland secretion and uric acid over all three of us. Later I say "Nikolai, sorry the snake slit on you," and Natasha grins and says "it's not the first time!" He also got a big Fazeas margaritophorus.
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Florence, H. 1997 June 10 ~0600 In a tremendous wind storm whooshes me. By 0700h sky is dark overcast and there are wispy clouds on the peaks. (An aside: I can't recall anything comparable re terrestrial frogs as prey and tropical forest to the abundance and visibility (and audibility!) of Megophrys latidis in the stream beds here -- maybe some of the big Eleutherodactylus?). At 0730h the clouds are streaming down the canyon outside our window, the surrounding ridges obscured by mist. In the AM Kelly and Maijorie check several sites w/ GPS, while Dave Hardy radiolocated the TS #1 to leaf litter on the ground near last night's site. At 1600h British film crew arrives to do segment for Discovery Channel w/ me, on snake evolution led by Ailsa [sic] and Brendan. Discussion w/ Kelly, Natasha, and Nikolai re Lycodon-Dinodon project, for which KZ will do the molecular work. By 1700h Tam Dao almost totally socked in w/ clouds and very light fine drizzle -- and more fitting insects. At 1920 h a Polypedates leucomystax 2m above ground and 10m from staircase
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Greene, H. 1997 June 10 (continued) toward Stream #1. At 1935hr two P. leucostay each 1m up, between staircase and Stream #1. Dave and Maralee Wake and Carol Patton arrived ~1800hs. June 11 Walking loop roads I find a fairly fresh DOR Silvophus chinesis at 1040hr. After dark go to staircase w/ Kelly, Dave Hany, and film crew. By ~2015 Dave leaves to check telemetered T. stejnegeri and the film crew pops out. At 2030 hr I get a Rhacophorus appendicularis = (R. nessuno) in earlier notes from here) on a stem 0.5m above embankment from staircase, at 1000m. At 2045hr 1000 m, we photograph undisturbed and collect a Trimeresurus stejnegeri, horizontal on a fern stem w/ head toward base, body parallel to and ~30 cm above ground at top of embankment. Only reaction to capture w/ force was struggling. At 2100 m, 980m, near Box 13, I climb up vegetation and catch a Polypedates leucostay 2 m above ground on vegetation at top edge of embankment, and soon after climbed the base of a tree for another frog (for Kelly) but it left into the valley below. At 2150hr
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Greene, H. 1997 June 11 Kelly and I catch T. microsquamosatus AOR at construction site of newt pond. only struggles when captured - later sticks many lines in plastic bag. Dave Hardy caught a huge Ichthyophis on the dirt path through grass and gardens between station and hotel.. Ted had gone w/ others to lower waterfall and caught a small ? T. monticola coiled w/in a few meters of the cascade pool, and I collected fur from its feces. Then Jane and Mark Moffett photographed a copulating pair of Sinoratrix trianguligera in the pool. June 12 Spent the AM w/ the film crew. at ? 1700 we took a van of 14 people w/ Ted & film crew to lower falls. Two Vietnamese carried a 200 lb. slung on a bamboo pole down a very steep path through dense grass, then forest to the boulder strewn running stream. At 1830 hr the film crew's English speaking liaison from the Ministry of Culture started yelling "snake snake". It was pointing at a sphingid caterpillar that looks like a dark and green [illegible] banded pitrege, a few mm posterior
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Heree, H. 1997 June 12 to the real head is an enlarged snake (continued) head, and when disturbed the caterpillar retracts its head and the enlarged part looks like the end - has fake scales, eyes, dark head stripe! ~6-8 cm long. We worked maybe 100 m upstream to waterfall, but saw only Amolops nickellii in the vicinity; Ted saw 2 Sinoratrix triangularis in a downstream pool and caught one for
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Freese H. 1997 June 13 net. When injected w/ Nembotal it rings (continued) a huge P. leucomelas that had been swallowed seems first. Nice conversation w/ Natasha and Nikolai at lunch about Russian more we and they all like very much Close to Eden in English and Tintery of Love in Russian. New item on menu - pickled baby eggplant, very salty and not especially tasty, but Nikolai likes them a lot. He says Trineresurus easy to breed: lower night temps to 15 C, day jumps to 18-20C for three months. Must ask him about seasonality of breeding in Old Woldscotlas. Out w/ film crew to faho Jelenety w/ borrowed T. stejnegeni , then walkin upper loop road. At 1920 hrs, 945m, Dave Hardy spots a small adult T. stejnegeni crouching in the concrete ditch between newtpark rd. and the first (heavily under reconstruction) ruin; only response to torqs was crouchy. Leave film crew ~ 2030m and join Kelly and Marjorie on lower reaches de Starcast. Missed one huge P. leucomelas ~ 3-4m up in tree. Recall funny remarks by Mawales at lunch, re bathing scene at cisterns: "There weren't banana plugs up there!"
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Here, H. 1997 June 14 Big thunderstorm hit ~0300h and heavy rain fell until ~dawn. Thunder usually 3-6 seconds after lightning flashes and so frequent often a new flash before previous thunder rolls off. This was finally reminiscent of other tropical downpours I've experienced. At 0730h I awaked to no rain, lowlands totally soaked in and misty clouds on the surrounding peaks, and the sound of the waterfalls in the canyon is louder. After breakfast Jim's trooper brings in a moon rat, a big insectivore harking to some neotropical marmosials, and Patterson is really excited. At now I sit out on our volcano w/ coffee, watch misty irregular squadrons of clouds stream up the canyon like floats in a celestial parade. Thinking about Vietnam War, how incredibly hard and unsightly to have humped a pack and fought in such terrain (e.g., leeches) and how astoundingly that this relatively backward country withstood and triumphed over U.S. military power. Back to mountain ridges not once here have I seen a bird flying - though Dave Hardy
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Here, 16 1997 June 14 says he saw some in the forest at the (continued) T.S. #1 site - especially striking in looking out over the forest here and recalling frequent views of Gorillas in Uganda and howlows and toucans in Costa Rica. More frogs here in high snake species density; most forest in the immediate vicinity of Tank Dar is second growth or at least has long since been selectively logged. See few trees w/ dbh > 20 cm, let alone really big trees, and lots of bamboo, hard to walk through understory. And often hear the roar of motorcycles even at dawn and late at night. But lots of moths, beetles, and astounding cicada choruses. After dark Dare Hardy and I walk from town past cisterns and on to upper loop road in gentle rain shot becomes cold and windy. Lots of frogs on road and vegetation. We go to check our telemetered green pitvipers, and I spot an adult Trimeresurus stejnegeri vertical stretched on a sapling x3-5 cm diameter, w/ head down in S-coil and 30cm above ground x2m off concrete walkway at 30-40m from T.S#1.
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Freese, H. 1997 June 14 (continued) After a few seconds in our lights, before we can get photos of original posture, snake slowly turns up soaping. Dave locates Yelenity Signal zone place in leaves. At ~2145hr, while I'm photographing Microhyla in flooded grassy lot across road, Dave Hardy spots a largish Sinomatrix triangulera grappling w/ a huge♀ Polypedates leucomystax (next morning after laying 2 eggs in each overnight, SV 98mm, 56g, KZ 269). [illegible] Actually Dave saw the snake swim ~10m from out in the pond and seize the frog (which must have been in water initially). At 2155 hr when I arrive both are struggling, writhing, then floating, seemingly exhausted. No obvious constriction, and generally the snake's body is extended, sometimes contorted, either on surface or less frequently dangling down in water from floating (greatly inflated) frog. By now, snake has frog only by toes, and at times frog is swimming on surface but unable to pull free! At 2200 hr snake has swallowed entire left by, its throat obviously expanded and jaw
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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
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Acane,H. 1997 June 15 (continued) TS#1, and this AM Dare Hardy finds the latter's transmitter, clean and laying on leaf litter at his previous site - so we are fairly sure the snake I found last night is TS#1, and accordingly we GT implant him w/ another transmitter, and Dave releases him in litter at capture site. At 1700h Dave Hardy, Kelly, and I hike out
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Greene, H. 1997 June 15 little boy the trail. We pause at a plank (continued) platform, seemingly made by wood cutters, make in the view (mostly shades of green, but two trees in sort of dark apple read throughout, on distant slopes), and Kelly gets more leeches off our socks and boots. At 2035hr, 905m, just as we reach the edge of Tam Dao we spot what at first we think is T. microsquartus (I say
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Here, H. 1997 June 15 were on their way to the ponds. Kelly (continued) showed me a big orange - legged centipede (Scolopendra) disappearing into a hole in mossy embankment, ±2130hr. June 16 Kelly and I left the hotel at 0930hr and arrived at the trail-stream jet ±1000hr and lower waterfall ±1020hr. Partly cloudy, but some sun makes it through to the streambed. Lots of trash, especially plastic Ja Vie waterbottle, but no condoms. The exact site where Ted got the T. morticola is rocky moss-covered and leaf litter to the right of the main torrent and between it and a smaller cascade ±5m away. I now get 730m el at the main pool and had set my altimeter this AM. This pool, where Marsh et al. watched S. lianguligera molin, is ≈3×5m in greatest dimension. Late afternoon Dave Hardy and I handled the "Pseudoboiga" for Mark Moffett to photograph, and it readily S- coiled and spreads its head, but only gave bites and briefly chewed my parts. Then Dave and I pose it
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Herrlt. 1997 June 16 some more, and the snake greatly (continues) inflates criterion forms compact exaggerated S-coil (like Pseustes) and repeatedly strikes w/ open mouth (white flash); at 2005 in an upper 200s Rd. Dave and I see a tawny large mouse w/ white belly and long tail, ~3m up in bamboo and 30m from Stream#1, 930m el. (Marjorie Matorq later tells us this probably a species of Niviventer). At 2035 in 945 m, we photograph TS#1 in arbush posture, 30cm above ground, head down body extended up 15mm diameter bamboo and anchored by tail. We check newt pond, photograph frog chorus and fragments of P. leucostephanus, but see no waterstriders. Earlier in the evening Kelly caught a Sinomatrix triangularis w/ obvious food lump, and overnight in plastic bag it regurgitated grasshopper P. leucostephanus that had been swallowed first. June 17 Leave ~0900hr for Old French Trail w/ Dave and Marvalee Wake, Marjorie and Mark; Ted was also on the trail and joined us from time to time.
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Greene, It. 1997 June 17 We stopped at the plank bench x1010h (continued) but still too cloudy and hazy for good photos. I could actually hear birds singing and some sort of squawking duettle as well as single calls from a distance that reminded me of toucans. We saw no herps, back to Station x1230h. Nikolai gave me two female Trimeresurus morticola that hunters brought in the # layer in late May, the smaller in June, as well as a beautiful young Pseudorodon varvunicola he found last night in a streambed. As he predicted, when Dave Hardy and I photographed the latter this afternoon, it repeated and also briefly flashed a hood which bears a crude large ocellus-like marking. x1900 starts to rain. Dave Wake, Majorie, and Kelly went to the next pond & returned up in the hour because of the storm, catching a big Ichthyophis bannanicus on the same staircase from the pond area into town. Tool was on the staircase to the tower when the storm hit and said the steps turned into forests and he gave up on
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June 16, 1997 June 17 collecting. As he came into town he (continued) saw a lighting flash and then the whole town went black - end of electricity in Tam Dao for a while! Also end of the drought, just as we prepare to leave. Could hear the electric storm pass by: first thunder after flashes 3-4 seconds, then some 1 sec or less, and later after ten seconds or more, only low distant rumbling. We have dinner early at 2200hr, hearing that Nikolai and Sergei turned back on Old French Road due to flooding. Still raining hard when we go to sleep. June 18 Partly cloudy, sunny, blue sky at 0800 hr, and the waterfall nearby sounds louder, cicadas buzzing. ~1100 Kelly and I go up 5 staircase to retrieve data loggers. At 1120 hr "Box 24" 175m we retrieve HOBO 80340. At that site Kelly spots a rat walking in foliage ~4m above ground. At 1145hr I spot a small lizard in the road at Stream 1, runs off into vegetation, pretty sure it was Tropidophorus hainanus based on size, locomotion, shortish tail and fringe of red coloration. At 1150hr we retrieve
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Here, H. 1997 June 18 (continued) Hobo 8035] at Stream I, 950m. at ~1200 we are shocked to find the new pond has filled almost to the road, covering the former rock wall boundary by ~1 m, and inundating the grassy float where we previously laid tags etc. Thus we could not retrieve the data logger here. More photos of Polypedates leucomystax nests. After lunch everyone is in packing mode, and Natasha and Nikolai leave for Hanoi. Margorie is sick having had temp. of 103F and fainted early this AM. At dusk I go w/ Kelly in chest waders into newt pond, and at ~1930-2030h we catch 9 Sinoratrix triangulifera and miss ~6 others, including adults and various juvenile sizes. Most appear to have recently eaten, and all spin, twist, gill, and smell terrible when seized. Pond now dominated by singing and clasping Rana macronemis, but there are still scattered P. leucomystax and probably some Microhyla sp. (there are 3 species of microhylids in flooded fields across the road from the newt pond. My
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Greene, H. 1997 June 18 (continued) Impression was that all small S. hirarguligera went for the shore when chased, where as adults dived or swam toward center of pond, sometimes >= 10 m before I lost sight of them. NB: Earlier we had the big Rhabdophis chrysargus out and it performed a very Naja-like display; anterior 15cm elevated abruptly and flattered in a cobra hood, head tilted down, and readily strikes at hands, and smoke bag. We had a ~2m Elaphe jamaica (which I will release behind the hotel) out, and it made elevated exaggerated S-coil w/ open mouth, hissing, and strikes. Some inflation of anterior, but not so pronounced as in the smaller E. radiata. June 19 Dave Hardy sick yesterday w/ fever, heavy sweating, and joint aches. He checked the Primessus steigeri site and got signal from some place in ground vegetation mornings of June 17th 18 and last night, so we presume it has been resurgitated. This AM Dave is still not well, Marjorie
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(continued) June 19, distinctly better. This morning spent packing. Hershey, PA 1997
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Tam Dao Canyon TV tower 1250m stream 2 stream 1 ruins upper loop rd. ruins middle loop rd. stream 3 lower road cisterns "Old French Rd." (not to scale) ruins TAM DAO 865m field station hotel upper falls lower falls to Vinh Yen
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Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm) (gms) SVL tail hl hw eyes weight sex wg3007 ♂ 791 191 35.4 19.2 15.3 84.5 hwg3027 ♀ 680 139 20.4 17.8 12.8 68.0 wg3062 687 158 31.5 18.1 14.3 64.0 wg3063 493 110 23.0 14.2 10.9 24.5 hwg3073 ♂ 889 127 40.8 21.6 16.3 115g T.m.#1 ♂ 745 174 33.8 21.5 14.3 97g hwg3087 489 126 25.4 15.3 11.3 30g hwg3086 ♂ 792 190 34.5 20.4 15.3 104g hwg3088 587 186 28.2 — 11.8 54g hwg3091 ♀ 571 111 27.1 16.1 12.2 40g hwg3092 ♂ 741 172 34.5 19.1 14.4 82.5 HWG3103 ♂ 531 127 25.2 15.1 11.6 34g
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Trimeresurus stejneri (mm) (mm) (gms) sex sv(mm) tail(mm) hl(mm) hw eyes wt. hwg 3000 ♂ 594 149 30.6 21.7 16.2 70.5 hwg 3011 ♂ 646 145 32.3 21.1 15.3 89.0 g 3028 ♂ 580 152 29.5 20.8 15.5 61.5 ug 3030 ♂ 525 146 26.4 19.1 13.4 43.0 vg 3032 ♂ 464 120 24.4 17.0 13.0 35.0 hwg 3033 ♀ 419 98 22.6 15.8 12.1 32.5 g ♂ 3034 ♂ 540 139 26.5 17.8 12.8 42.0 g 3035 ♂ 536 132 26.0 17.5 13.7 44.0 vg 3038 20x3 41.0 13.4 9.2 8.1 2.90 hwg 3064 360 89.0 20.8 14.5 T.s.#1 ♂ 565 151 30.0 20.0 16.1 55g T.s.#2 ♂ 598 148 30.7 21.4 15.4 69.5g hwg 3102 ♂ 442 111 24.4 17.4 12.7 36.5g mhw ♂ 550 141 26.4 17.8 14.8 68.5g
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there, H. 1998 July 28 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona I arrive here ~0230hr, having left Jordan (UK, homology meeting at the Novartis Foundation yesterday AM (actually ~2200hr Portal time on the 26th - flew Jordan-Toronto-Minneapolis-Tucson, then our truck from Tucson to Portal; I had driven the truck here from Berkeley July 13-14 (odometer at start 119,778). I come in through Paradise and catch an adult Crotales molossus heading S. off road at the west end of our study site (the becomes Cin 35) - catch her w/ Maglite and a tube, no problem! I'm up by ~0630hr due to jet lag, greeted by David J. Hardy Sr. and Marcio Martins, latter friend w/ whom we worked in Marano in 1993. July 29 We roadhunt the Sistrurus area SW of here and get 3 Crotales scutulatus. July 30 at 0820hr, CM31 is in a flat coil on a rock ledge under a boulder, w/ head in sun facing out to the NE, all else in shade; I sneak up to her from behind an agave and still she pulls back into shade and shelter. I scan in beside her w/ fones and see no babies. At 0940hr Marcio and I are in a ravine leading up to the saddle through which the "benday
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Herrn, H. 1998 July 30 (continued) canyon" connects w/ our main study area (just E. of the big "Dolphin Head" rocks) and see a big Scolopendra heros seemingly foraging. It is in little away boulders in the dry stream bed, dappled sun and shade, crawling steadily and unaware of us. It swings the head here and there, disappears under a boulder for >1 min, emerges, and continues searching - moved >=3 m in <= 2 min. At 1020 h we see >= 3 babies at the entrance to the small cavity under a rock where ? CMZ9 has gestated; they are in shade, curled w/ heads pointed out, w/ CMZ9 head behind them and also face out. As I come w/in ~1m, a baby uncoils and disappears into hole; as Marcio and L stand and take photos, ?29 moves head to the entrance and over the babies. We withdraw after <= 2 min observing. ~ 1400 h I spot an adult Mediocoplus filicatus crawling into brush beside the Hardys driveway. At 1505 h a solid rain hits though to the East it is still sunny. We go to SWRS for dinner (Dare gave a talk on our blacktail walk), and driving back, near Sunny Flat campground, a
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Greene, A. 1998 July 30 small lynx Rufus dashes across the (cortina) road in front of us. July 31 0800-0830h we watch CM729 in dappled sun coiled in sparse grass in front of Delta and facing it, where 3 babies are coiled. As I approach a baby uncoils slowly and scats back into Delta. We take photos from all angles, and finally a baby out in front of the F crawls over her; she flinches and partly uncoils toward the entrance. The baby crawls slowly in and she re-coils to her previous position. The skin of the babies is duller colored today (yesterday they were yellow and reddish brown fresh looking) but their eyes are not yet blue. We decide that only 2 babies have been seen today, and I am not totally sure we saw 3 yesterday. At 0950 CM279 is out of sight at her gestation site, at 1100 CM317 is in some crack, in shade, in an open coil with her paw part out of the entrance - her posterior is still evidently fat, and we can't see any babies. After dinner Marcio and I road hunt the Sistums site. ~10 mi SW of State line at dusk we seem to be driving in to a black wall of furious cloudburst and lightning,
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Greco, H. 1998 July 31 (continued) stretching across the Pelonillos-Chiricahua horizon, and as we pass the Bessino Surrender marker a storm hits so dramatically I barely get us safely off the shoulder in Apache - visibility literally a meter or so, and hail. We wait it out for 20 min or so. I'd said I hoped for Perleptema, and we got 2 A. Sigillum crossing the road where Hwy 80 meets Buelo Cyn Rd, as well as a T. marcianus and a Crocatus ethox. August 1 Mike Plummer comes by at 0700 to join us (he is studying Tenagere on one of Joe Austin's ranches west side of the Chiricahuas. At 0830m he and I reach site of 729. She is in the entrance, w/ an anterior coil slightly out and head on it - facing >= 2 bobites that are out from entrance a fem cyn. As we approach they uncoil and crawl past her out of sight. At 0930h as we drive down a two-track to the park spot in a bench above Sdra Creek. (This is at the big red boulder under which I once found CM211), we see an adult Mierwoide euryanthus crawling leisurely in full sun across a 5m patch of open
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Greene, B. 1998 August 1 (continued) travel! As we jump out an approach, it crawls rapidly, such that the color bands are confusing - as I grasp w/ tongs it cloacal pops, sucks the lead in a tight bend and waves the coiled tail laterally. At 1030h we see ≈3 babies w/in the cleft where ♀ CM3( has been, and they slowly uncoil and retreat out of sight when we approach to 2-3 m. CM3( is coiled ≈ 40 cm up the edge of the rock from her earlier side, exposed, wh/head facing uphill and away from the babies! At 1145 we see CM♀21 ≈1/3 out of hole under her rock, as if just emerging. No babies -oops! - Marcio spots a pile of them on the E. side of the rock, ≈20cm from ♀21. There are ≥4 babies, and I see one crawl over ♀ into darkness. We catch 2 for telemetry - I lay over rock, lean down, catch them w/tongs w/ no difficulty. Billie, Dave and I go for drinks w/ Karen and Alden Hales late afternoon. Last night they saw a "6 foot" Pituophis ascend a tangle of rose bush beside
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Freere, H. 1998 August 1 (continued) their carport then cross on eves >2m up to a Bending Throats's nest and evidently eat the nestlip - Karen couldn't even disencle the snake by poking it w/a broom. August 2 at 0823 we arrive at the site for CM 29 (this is a strenuous 45-60min hike, all up) and she sits outside the entrance facing in at Z coiled babies - and there is another C. molossus loose coiled (or frozen scowling) on a ledge 50 cm to the west! I catch her w/out problem (rattles briefly) and in the commotion Marcio tries unsuccessfully to hook the babies out for marking - they get in the hole out of sight, and CM29 crawls in, forces out, no rattling. Dare thinks the new bizzer I is follicular, but I think she feels light (despite slightly swollen abdomen) and looks
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Anne, H. 1998 August 2 (continued) one green dot, weighs 27.5g and has just shed skin very yellow and has a button. Baby #2 (PIT 026 590 S89) gets two green dots, weighs 31.5g, and has gray brown colors and a prebutton. Baby #2 and the one that escaped were both pre-shed and in front of F31; Baby #1 was 30 cm away (to W). We return at 100h and find F31 same place and a baby curled in front of her: Baby #3 (PIT 026 791 065) has gray brown colors, weighs 28g, has a prebutton and gets three green dots. We get to release all 3 at entrance and they crawl out of sight. F31 turns and tongue-flicks second baby; as the third crawls by she slowly moves to the exact position as yesterday and faces into the cavity. We spot a shed baby skin (presumably #1) in grass beside the rock, very close to where Maceio caught Baby #1. At 1210h F21 rattles briefly from out of site as we approach and catch 2 of a pile of her 4 feeding babies, same spot at entrance as yesterday. Baby #3 (PIT 025 874 514) prebutton, 35g, 3 green spots. Baby #4
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Acrea, H. 1998 August 2 (continued) (PIT 026 273814), 39g, prebutton, 4 green dots. We release these and Baby #1 and #2 (both w/ transmitters) and they crawled leisurely in and out of sight. August 3 at 0820h, CM29 is at the entrance to her shelter, no babies visible, sun barely on the edge of her. Marcio and I retreat to shade and wait 20 min, then return to see one baby visibly in front of the opening but it escapes back in. We released 738, and she crawls straight from the capture site ledge to CM29's hole, enters, and coils in the tight space. We are uncertain as to why she is up here - gravid? A gravidnote? at 1015 CM 31 is in the same place w/ her head at the front still only w/ shed outside. Two dot now has light patterned is in shade ~30cm uphill from 731, and slowly crawls back in and past her as I approach. I spot posterior 1/3 of another baby w/ button ~50cm uphill, disappear into thin crevice under edge of Hezelatin boulder (I was puzzled that a baby w/ dark color pattern - thus not fresh fled - could
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Herrert. 1998 August 3 (continued) have a button, and later realized that as shedding nears the button is primarily visible through the now translucent pre-button. At 1125hr, #21 site, I see 1-dot, 2-dot, and 3-dot plus two unmarked babies in shade of overhang. All slowly crawl in as we approach and try to catch the two unmarked babies, and #21 rattles briefly from out of sight in the hole. August 4 at 0820hr #31 is at the entrance of her delta, head facing out, and there is a freshly shed baby coiled against her in the shade of the overhang. There is a new fresh shed, of 2-dot, in grass approx 15cm out from rock, where I saw the baby on upper edge of rock yesterday. This baby goes back in series as Dare upgrades to x1m and takes several photos; no response from the #31. At 1010hr I snatch a baby from under the coil of #29, who is at the entrance of her site in a tight coil. Baby #1 (PIT026606339), 1 green dot, no wt, blue eyes w/ button visible through pre-button. #38 signal is 3m north of #29, under a large
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Here, H. 1998 August 4 (continued) boulder. at 135h we localize signals of F21 and babies 36 & 37 to her gestolin gestlin site, and Dave approaches and sees 3-dot and 4-dot among uncountable babies in shade at the entrance. We see Bob Goodman (Cal Poly Pomona) at Barney Tomberlin's house, and he gives me a DOR Opbelis aerius from near Sycamore Canyon - in a cooler for 9 days, and I freeze it to tissue and pickle later. August 5 at 0850h Marcio and I check F24. She is in the same place and posture as yesterday, cooled inside w/ her head pointing out. We see no babies or sheds. F38 signal is in the same site, at 1015 we localize the signal of Heluopius caterina in Opuntia base of lower limestone rock walls in middle of study area, N of pole 3. at 1045h I set the signal of CM15 under a boulder 30 m south of her July 29 flag. At 1120 we can't see F21 but set her signal at the site, see all babies in a pile in the shade, and catch the last two: 5-dot, PIT 026301259, 36g 6-dot, PIT 026270278, 33g
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Greene, H. 1998 August 6 We are accompanied this AM by Ronald Karen Goellner (St. Louis Zoo) and Harvey Jollywhite (U. Florida). ≈0840 after much signal confusion I locate ♂28 as he emerges on a ledge at upper edge of a small ravine (just E of #21 site), from a horizontal cleft partially flooded by rat nest. First I see a smallish adult C. molossus partly out, then a larger one crawling w/it. Next they rise up (I think the smaller one 1st), intertwine and there are or two bouts of spindly bodies (Goellner has photos). Smaller snake
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Green, H. 1998 August 6 (continued) snakes. at 1000 we set signals of CM21, 36, 37 at her site, and there is a 'basking/resting pile of babies' at the front that includes 1-dot. The babies still have opaque eyes and skins. At 1120h I set off CM27 signal in a big rat nest surrounded by grey rocks & Opuntia, 4m west of this July 27 flag. August 7 at 0810h we got only a weak poorly directional signal from CM28 from the road and see no snakes at the ledge where the possible combat occurs. We get CM27 signal from under a boulder ~30m uphill from the ledge, causing concern that I transposed the freq. yesterday. We have also been having a puzzling (at least to me) difficulty localizing signals lately. At 0820h, at the site for F21 we see 4-dot coiled in sun, eyes still cloudy, with balloon visible through translucent probotton. We get signals for CM 21, 36, &37 from the site. at 0940 we see CM29 in the same place and same posture as yesterday w/ three shed skins in front of entrance, including 2-dot. Signal same for CM38.
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Greene, H. 1998 August 7 continued) approx 1700 we go to Douglas for dinner (2nd time in a week) at El Alamo and some grocery shopping. Pick up a few DOKs on the way home despite light moon. August 8 Marcio sick & stays in - 0940h Dare & I arrive at the site of 929 to find >=4 shed skins in front of entrance (thus are new ones from yesterday), and her signal seemingly across the saddle to the south. Signal of CM 38 in the same site. I see a baby rattler skin under bottom leaves of a soto >=2m west of the birth site, and as I start to pull the skin out, see a neonate, fresh shed, in an 'S'ash coil up under leaves near base of soto facing out. Catch it w/out problems, & later discover its shed is among those in front of the birth site. approx 1100 after much searching Dare locates signal of CM 29 in dense low shrubs ~150m W.of birth site on same slope (our earlier reception on opposite slope thus due to signal bounce). At 1150h we get signals of 921, 36, 37 at her birth site. There are >=3 babies in shade at entrance, no green dots visible, no sheds.
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Free H. 1998 August 8 (continued) after dinner I announce I will go catch a coorsnake and Marcelo comes along. We drive to x 2-2.5 miles E of Portal and on second pass (now dark, huge gold moon about to crest the Peloncillos) I see a Micruroides <1m coming onto rd from the north, stop immediately, and it's gone! We search and within a minute find it x3 m N of road on open gravel. Immediately starts fast, and when restrained w/ forceps it tucks the head, curls and waves the tail, and cloacal pops repeatedly. August 9 at 0745h we release CM♂394 where we locate ♀39 in open brushland just E of "Boundary Canyon" and south of the road (this telemetered♀caught by Chuck Raw when finders spotted her and a ♂ crossing the road August 7; he later caught this ♂(394) at the same site, thus perhaps the same ♂). At 0845h we check the ♀29 site, finding no new sheds but 2 segments of adult taille at the entrance. I get signal of CM♂38 at the same big rock. I
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Greene, H. 1998 August 9 (continued) the baby found yesterday under the same soto leaves (NB: the skin I found near her is not hers, as we located this baby's skin - based on head pattern - among those from the entrance to F29 site.) At 0900 Dave spots F38 under the boulder, stretching out of a hole at upper east end. He thinks she looks skinny, Marcio thinks she looks fat! At 1030h at site F21 we get signals of her, 36, 37 from under the rock, and Marcio sees 3-spot and 4-spot in shade at the entrance. Dave sees a total of four bobes, and they slowly crawl in out of site as he takes photos? After dark we road hunt and set five neonate (bottino) G. Stup w/in 2 miles E of Portal - the first yet seen. August 10 At 0740 as we drive Paradise Road toward our study area, a big male (?) javelina crosses a hundred meters or so ahead. At 1000 h all 3 transmitter signals came from under the rock at F21 site, and there is a fresh shed baby coiled next to a bunched up fresh bob skin in shade at the entrance. As we return to the car a Mephitis ambled in the ravine beside us.
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August 10, 1998 August 10 (Continued) after lunch I go to Tucson to pick up Kelly, and driving home on foothill rd. approx 5 miles NE Portal we miss an adult C. dhorx. Marcus and Dave got 8 snake road twenty east of Portal. August 11 0930h, two fresh looking babies and two sheds plus all three signals at 21 site. One baby slowly crawls in, recoils where still visible and looks out. The two were originally coiled together. At 1015h, 226 is out of site in a huge rat nest under a cluster of several trees, on a south fence of Silver Creek where a flag says he was on August 5, 1957. Gordon and Janar Schwartz arrive. August 12 at 0920h signals of babies 36 & 37 are still at site of 21. I spot a baby out basking, looking fresh shed but w/ piece of old skin hanging on posterior (NB: no rain in days). It crawls back in out of sight. At 0940h 21 is 40-50m south of birth site in huge rat nest in rocks and shrubs, on west rim of first ravine east of the birth site -- same ravine edge & south of where I saw CM 28 and another snake in combat
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August 12 (with the Goellners). At 1040h, Dave, Gordon and I find #38 coiled in same site as last time facing out. No skins or babies at site of #29. Just before we leave that site a big Butler goes sliding through the saddle fairly close carrying a large snake >=1m TL in its anterior end. We perceive no dorsal pattern and a light belly, perhaps gray or green dorsum - of. Masticophis bilineatus or less likely Senticolis triaspis. The rash slid off low on the ring rocks below Second
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Here, H. 1998 August 13 (continued) Malpais Borderlands Group. Met in a big gray barn, with high rafters and a bat in flight at times. Relaxed atmosphere. nice lunch; saw Jim Brown, Warren and Wendy Glover, etc. August 14 Joe and Vala Austin, Justin Condon, and two friends of the Austins arrived ~0830 hr to see the snakes, and stayed for lunch. We saw one baly at the entrance to #21 site which slowly retreated, and got signed of bobies 36 & 37 there. Got sign of #28 in same site as when I saw him w/ the Goellners (rats have now totally destroyed/wrecked the C. molossus skin that was there. Found CM 8-27 coiled at base of a small tree in dense grass, w/ rattle laying out from the coil, ~ a few dozen meters west of #28. We saw the edges if CM 26's big coils in the same rat nest where signed was a few days ago. Took Sherbrooke family to Douglas for dinner at El Alamo.
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Greene, H. 1998 August 15 Walked around some property nears Alden Hayes' house that his son would sell us. Alden carries an O2 rig for his emphysema, and Karen was/warnin Kelly as we left that tough night pull the tube loose and Alden wouldn't wear it - which indeed happened. I commented that the escaping gas sounded like a rattler and Alden commented that he can't hear rattlers anymore either! Endless delays packing and leaving - Church Rock for lunch etc. Finally set off ~ 1700 hr and make camp in Cochise Stronghold of the Dragon Mtns @ ~ 1930hr. August 16 Cochise Stronghold Campground is at ~ 5060' el. Morning clear, calm, not to hot. At breakfast an Acorn Woodpecker is chasing a nuthatch from a tree. Lots of mosquitoes last night. Between 800 - 1000 hr we hunt the first 1/2 mile of the Cochise Trail, get 16 Sceloporus janovii and see many more, but no snakes. I took photos at 5400' el from a
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there, H. 1998 August 16 (continued) rocky east facing slope, to the NE toward Willcox Playa and to the SE toward the crest. Also saw several small striped Gremiophorus We drove out of the mountains then south then back over them through Middle March Pass. Bjorn lingers for lunch at the OK Cafe in Torbstore.' Shopping in Siena Vista then up a rough road to the Reef Vista Campground, el. 7200' in Can Canyon / Huachuca Mountains. While we are having an after dinner campfire hear a car coming very fast on the road above, seemingly lurching around turns and see lights of a largish truck going other direction - but they don't crash! Then the offensive vehicle (maybe a pickup - 3 red wind lights, only one fairly high - roars wrong way into our campground, stops at a distant camp site, and lights out w/ mosquitoes for a couple of minutes then screams out and lurches back out the road to Siena
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Akeem, H. 1998 August 16 Vista! We wonder if they forgot something (continued) or dropped off a body and keep the pistol loaded in the tent for the night August 17 We're up to clear skies no beardworse, and by ~0800h are on the Comfort Spring Trail which goes around upper Can Canyon through a saddle at ~7300'el, into Upper Ramsey Canyon. We go 2.25 miles to jet w/ Hamburg Trail at ~6700'el, which we think might be the Hamburg Mule site. Back to the car ~1130h just time to miss a big storm that by the time we're out of the canyon or good news engulfed almost all of the Huachucas. Got 20 Sceloporus jarrovii in upper Can and Ramsey Canyons, no snakes, and 3 big lion scads near each other near the jet. w/ Hamburg Trail, Upper Ramsey really is forested w/ thick ground cover along the trail, lots of conifers sounds of water, etc'. Spectacular lichen on rock faces and the Huachuca Agave is spectacular! Oak leaves carpet the more open areas. Drive north and then west to Sonora w/ spectacular views of storms over the
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Heere, H. 1998 August 17 (continued) over the Huachucos, Whetstone and Santa Rita's. Through Tucson and up into the Santa Catalinas, where we stop at General Hitchcock Campground 5920' el. Kelly sees 3 S. jambirri on rocks below our tent.
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