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Myrmal Georg
1969
Journal
119
Sept. 7 (cont.)
10 mi. WNW Puguio, 13000 ft. Dept. Ayacucho, Peru
our traps. Neither Ray nor I caught anything. D.
Koford caught about 7 mice - Phyllotis pictus, Calomys
ducille, and Abodon boliviensis, up around the
guenua tree. No one caught anything in steel
traps. At 11:30am we went back to headquarters.
Bill Franklin took us around for a couple of hours
and showed us how he is studying vicunas. Most
of the work is quantitative, and he has the
dynamics of the ranges & intergroup interactions
recorded. We drove back up the road and took
the turnoff we took yesterday:
[diagram]
We took the right fork this time. Close to the
junction we saw 2 of the large variety of
tiuamurs (Tiuamotis pentlandi) (the one
we got at Paraceta was Notocerca pentlandi).
Dr. Koford has the idea that tuianur go around
in groups of 3 - 2 ?? and 1 ?. We only
saw 2, however, and couldn't get either one.
This may be an altitudinal low for this
species. They were in short brush and rocks.
The vegetation was fairly sparse + short. We