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After a shower, Jim, Elpidio, Octavio and I process 4 animals. One, a very old unmarked ♀, never before trapped.

Her forearm is broken at the humerus, near the the shoulder & it looks like a new break. 

Later Jim speaks w/Elpidio [[strikethrough]] whs [[/strikethrough]] who indicates that he doesn't think so because she emerged from trap and climbed a tree straight away as tho not at all inconvenienced. 

Meanwhile Jim & I are guilty after processing because it looks like a break caused by the trapping procedure. 

After dinner Jim and I get into argument @

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his training of Pandora & Aphrodite after they were removed from the single tree they occupied in Pesagro. 

Jim "casually" trained them in the little cage beyond field headquarters & found that they were incredibly good when released. 

I get up tight because I detect criticism of Ben's techniques & how ^[[in]]efficient they were. 

And Jim's saying "maybe we didn't need to spend all that time & money" & I say but we're doing research & there are too many variables & you don't even know what you did!

And so it went until bed!