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C. Koford
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Journal
25 February 1962
Mr. Dharwar (Mysore), India
hours at midday (would be fairly easy to catch by tree climbing and ground net, a la rhinos in U.P.).
26 February 1962. With Gorhila visited second area near first, near Alijoh & "past", & saw two more gps. Eus Plesictis entellus.
Took a few b & w pictures. Trees mostly under 20 ft. tall.
The Kyoto gp. now has expedition in shore Lake Tanganyika in Africa, studying chimpanzees in savannah area. Lions & leopards said dangerous there, so they took electric fence equipment. / M. silenus occurs farther S. in India. Simm from Univ. Calif., came to study it but found too few, so studied M. radiata instead. / Y. was in Assam 3 years ago, & saw Hoolock Gibbons there (with advice of Mr. Lee of Upper Shillong). He said they hunt rhinos mainly there, so he could not get counts undisturbed populations for Southwick who requested same. / In Dharwar region, M. radiata seems to be only in disturbed areas, along edges roads & fields, & not in forest away from roads, Y. said.
I saw several groups 5-10 along road-sides, one gp. picking tamarinds. They looked scrummy. / Y. told me he had seen no "courtship" in langurs. In M. fuscata he said 07 approached & swatched lips, came very close & turned quickly away - the same thing I call the "turn away" in rhinos. / We drove through Alijoh and on to S a SW. Mostly bamboo forest of tall bamboo mixed dry deciduous forest. Then less bamboo & more tall trees.
Many logs to 16" diam, & timbers cut, at some stations.
Passed "Sunnill" at Kannigeri. Then mostly evergreen trees.