Field notes, v1408
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Koford 14 Macaca fusata 5 April 1966 Kinkazan, Miyagi-ken, Japan w/n or far ridge, to N. 6 April 1966. Clear, calm; no ice. With Tenota walked W. from Forest Cabin at 0830 climbed stile at crest - alarm call 50m. to W. & ad. # saw. We stopped, watched, soon saw at least 7, incl. 2 old F F, one with tiny dark infant clutched to breast (alive; turned head up). Cool. Lesser brown since April 1. An anim. (fyr?) mv. othr ad. #, 10m. up a tree trunk (no foliage). Watched about 200 m., the monkeys aware of us / On slope 3 mins. (yearlings?) gently wrestled & romped. One, sitting, leaned back against stump as if to scratch. Occurs one to 2 m. up a trunk. No obs. mv. them. One # sub. ad. - dark shdn; narrow bare pink perineum. / Oriso. heard shot "glunk," saw'd timer - prob. not alarm. 0910, about 3 yrs. Together ran across slope in dry leaves, going W. / An mm. 2-3yr walked down a slanting fallen log on ground; stopped, crouched, looked -> us 200m. away. (Apparent crest ~). 0920 adult walked same route, along top of fallen log - common path way. Deriv from area; open Fagus - Carpinus slope. 0938, farther E., 4 mins. (3 or all yearlings) one on fallen log. One worked up & pulled down branch tip & nibbled at it. A big ad. # (leader?) walked across slope above them; one mm. skied away from him (at a start from him); a second walked within 1m. of #. The gp now 300 m. E. of pose. An mm. in tree descended slowly, met another on ground, & the 2 ran off together. 1005, # sub. ad. & mm. into creek bottom, going N., # walking on fallen log top. 1008, slight alarm at observers at 150m.; they led to E. up slope - #, yrs., 2 yrs., ad. # (?), all in succession walk: