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P.A. Kelly
1983
Journal
Shermans: 8 Peromyscus truei
1 Peromyscus maniculatus
1 Peromyscus boylii
I continued autopsying the Calhorn line spec
imens while Catty prepared and stuffed a
Perognathus californicus. All animals caught
in live traps were released except for one
Dipodomys venustus which I took back to
the HVZ as a pet.
We scrubbed and cleaned the lab from
top to bottom, and left the Reserve around 1 p.m.
Catty and I travelled back with Rick
Warner but we detoured to take in Point
Lobos and Monterey. At Pt Lobos I took
photos of a sealion basking on a rock
only 20 ft away from me. We also watched
a seaotter Enhydra lutris feeding her
half-grown pup in a rocky inlet. The
coastline at Pt Lobos is really spectac
ular, it's a pity it's so far away from
Berkeley. Later on we got within 15 ft of
a feeding otter at the Monterey pier, there
were also very many sealions basking
on the breakwater.
I took a number of slides of the otter
in Monterey and I also took some shots
of our catch in Hastings with the help of
Ed Heske in a large bird enclosure there.