Field notes, v1408
Page 365
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Journal 9 August 1965. Delhi, U.P., India lower ranking men, some slightly deformed (but 1 good 23 lb. old + 2 good subad. old). Two "golden" ff 2-3 yrs. old in cages. (One cage about 25 bonnet monkeys, 6-8 lbs. - tails long & straight.) The Indian who showed me around said that their own men merely brought the monkeys & had nothing to do with the actual capture. I took plane to Bombay. 10 August 1965. In Bombay talked briefly with M. S. Rai about monkey shipping business. He showed little enthusiasm + was planning to go to Europe this winter for a long stay. He had plans for movie of monkey capture & handling & shipping. I departed at 10:30 a.m. in plane on FAA route flw via Karachi, Aden, to Nairobi. Aden area a rocky desert. Cloudy over Africa - did not see the big mountains. 11-13 August 1965. Nairobi, Kenya. Talked with D.S.B. Leakey at Corydon Museum on 11. On 12 he took me to visit Tigrini, where Cynthia Booth (+ husband Bruce) now reside + have 100+ monkeys in cages. They also had stated collector skins & skeletons. Leakey seemed most interested in taxonomy now, repod. & behavior later. Cynthia monomach + tollesive, but seemed to know her African monkeys. She was to go to Zanzibar in Sept. to review Colobus badius in a small forest there. Caged animals seemed in fine health & seemed to be her main interest. 2 or + black & white colobs of 2 forms in cages. An adjacent road being acquired to expand facilities. A newly arrived girl from Weler was to study bones, the apparently a beginner in this field. Leakey continued to