Field notes, v1389
Page 379
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P.A.Kelly 1988 Journal Mar.25 (cont.) It was still warm and there was a drop of [illegible] fresh blood between the ears, under the left car, and behind the left shoulder. It doesn't look as if she got whacked by the trash door, left body on top of the wooden trash shelter. When I released #1455-56 (the presumptive mother) on top of the shelter, she walked around the top a few times - looking for a way off - but she momentarily smelled at the body of the jwr. before returning to H. 110. 2319 P.S.T. Hastings Lab. Did an autopsy on the body of the jwr. #. She was killed by a series of bites to the head, neck, shoulders and chest. The pattern of skin punctures is consistent with infanticide by a conspecific. There's a large hole in the left side of the cranium; there's another significant wound in the chest cavity just under the left humerus. Another bite mark on the back of the neck between the shoulder blades and under the left ear. lots of smaller skin punctures on the back + shoulders. I prepared a flat study skin so that the wound sites would be more obvious (Cat# P.K.177). I am also keeping the complete skeleton and tissues from the liver, heart + kidneys