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Transcription
Journal
Haber, M.S.
1978
6 km. (by road) S Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México.
28 March
(cont)
we plan to knapotype later today. We broke
camp and drove back into Tacámbaro, where
we photographed the neat, traditional spanish
architecture surrounding the town square.
We then drove north from Tacámbaro toward
Pátzcuaro. We stopped at the meadow at
the highest part of the mountain pass between
these two cities and searched for signs
of Zygogeomys (ie, their characteristic mounds).
We set some traps in a large meadow, but
we were fairly certain that the gophers
were Pappogeomys, so we pulled the traps
about 9:30, ½ hour after we had set them.
(I had one set-off), We continued a bit
further N on this road and turned off
to the NW towards Cerro Burro, a steep
[illegible] volcanic cone rising about 1500 ft.
above the surrounding meadows. The road
lead to a Microwave transmission station
about 2/3 of the way up Cerro Burro - we
saw no gopher signs on the Cero. 1100
we returned to Pátzcuaro. It is our
feeling now that either 1) Goldman was
wrong and Zygogeomys does not inhabit
the mountain slopes to the SE of
Pátzcuaro or 2) the Zygogeomys population