44 PERODICTICUS 



them together. They are found in the daytime curled up asleep in the 

 trees, tightly clinging to a branch. So tight is their grip of the branch 

 that specimens have sometimes come to me mutilated in the hands, the 

 natives who captured them declaring that it was only by cutting the 

 fingers that they could loosen the animal's hold. 



"Pottos are sometimes caught in traps placed on a horizontal pole 

 or bridge crossing on an open place between two pieces of forest, such 

 as a narrow place in a garden clearing or a stream. The animal crosses 

 on a pole in preference to descending to the ground. One specimen 

 was killed at night on the roof of a house to which it seemed to have 

 wandered from the overhanging plantain tops." 



