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Things to do (cont'd)

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[[underline]] Land [[/underline]]  Census of existing animal life

[[right top of page]] Geospiza raise and hand [[?]]in large cages?
Tortoises
Growth rate under nat. conditions tag or mark
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Erect pens for nests when discovered
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Pay reward for discovery of nests
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Film mating & behavior generally
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        Ecology.
 Encourage reproduction see what can be done about [[bringing?]] [[tortoises?]]back by enclosures around nests (enclose breeding pairs?) 
    Destruction of introduced pests ^[[encircled]] carnivores[[/encircled]]rats, dogs, cats
we have here an example of how carnivores are destroying miocene tortoises
dogs, cats, rats eat eggs
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Baits lures
[[cutouts?]] try out diff. methods advocated by Biol.
Survey
      
[[double underline]] Freshwater [[/underline]]
[[double vertical line]] Protective coloration
why needed or present[[underline]] in [[/underline]]galapagos
Also when hawk seems not to  eat small birds.
[[underline]] Eats snakes & insects[[/underline
?grasshoppers [[/double vertical line]]

[[double underline]]Marine [[/double underline]]
[[Look?]] for Ande 
Pacific types  Fish food plankton--
               Fishes (Icthyology)
               {Tuna [[double underline]] biology [[/double underline]] }
Invertebrates

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Zonation
Distribution
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