Maybe I didn't live in a big enough city, but I don't remember seeing a cellular phone that wasn't car-mounted until a few years later. I'm sure they were out there (there was a movie with the portable phone bit) but they weren't really on the zeitgeist if I recall correctly. And as far as forest creatures go, it was around this time that wide spread collaring of animals was happening so maybe actually more forest critters had cellular devices! If they worked that way.