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Normal Leng
1969
journal
35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Depto. Cajamarca, Peru
Aug. 24 (cont.) 11:00 am. I set my traps up a little trail that branched off the road. Seems like there is a lot of good habitat and holes/ things for mice to live in.
I set traps in hollow logs, beneath logs + boulders,
and around tree trunks.
12:30 pm I skinned my 2 animals (MAL 328+329).
It began raining slightly. The bat Dr. Koford got this morning is a Desmodus rotundus . It
is larger than the other bat, also grayer + darker.
Neither have either tail an much tail membrane.
If this area is a relict of as formerly was extensive forest, then probably the relict animals would be found in woodier habitat. So far, the mice caught in rocky habitat - under boulders,
etc. were Akodon , while the rat-type animals, were gotten under logs, in hollow logs, and in tree buttresses. It has been raining off and on all afternoon, sometimes very hard.
3:00 p.m. I walked about 1/4 mile up the road and off another side branch (cow path) that led through the forest to a fenced field. Along the same kind of dense vegetation, rotted logs, tree trunks, + boulders as I set my snap traps, I set 26 large Sherman's. At 4:00 pm mosquitoes came out, as yesterday.
4:30 p.m. We walked 5/10 mile back down the road and
set 2 bat nets - one 40 ft. and one 18ft. near buildings which were said to be inhabited by bats