Field notes, v1408
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Macaca fuscata 4 April 1965 In open Focus, found shed adult M. fuscata; old. saw none. To summit + N. long ridge to 1720 p.m.; saw none. 5 April 1965. Searched separately & saw a few males SW of sum- mmit. Cold, windy; saw ice morning. / Teroda showed me leaf- less vine-covered brush (in canyon E. of ridge E. of Forest Cabin), when he said 2 monkeys etc (droppings near). About 8'; speeding! / Low in canyon just S. of big ridge E. of summit (canyon of E. Colin), many dry droppings in an angle of granite 8-10' high, about 200' up slope - a resting or sunning spot? > Rock also dropping, or near many granite boulders in this canyon. / I walked to summit & en route saw at least one on boulder in Miscanthus area. Alvis on ridge W. of summit, about 300 m. level- I thought perhaps the "solitaries" seen by Teroda yesterday. (There are bark-eater shrubs on this slope, & lay some boulder many monkey droppings, so per- haps frequent.) / I on for up N. ridge, searching, listening, but saw none; turned back 5. 1000'; again at summit 1050. Down ridge to E. 300±m.; soil low shrubs, grazed, speeding, with branches barbed by teeth - at knots, & or small breaks down to 1 cm. a less down in tops - probably monkeys. (Valiate buds, stubby). Perhaps stunted by monkeys. Most of same species, while others untouched. / Atop mossy boulder under Focus Carpenter, 50 yds. N. of Heaven Tower, 30+ droppings- sitting place? (Teroda saw gp. pass near here once.) / Returned to Forest Cabin 1310; departed 1430, & again to canyon below Heaven Tower, to summit, & back down in area SW of summit. (Teroda said saw about 5, apparently including 2 juveniles, this canyon about 1630-1700. Monkeys frightened, to next canyon N., & when be to ridge they: