Day 11: All Day with Faben, Gigi, Goblin, and Patti
| Date: | July 10, 1974 |
| Start: | 07:00 (nest) |
| Finish: | 19:30 (nest) |
| Duration: | 12 hr. 30 min. |
| Observers: | David Riss and Juma Mkukwe |
David’s Report. Faben, Figan, Goblin, Patti, and Gigi spent the day together. After some early morning msongati feeding on the AK7 ridge, there were a few displays by the brothers with few responses. They returned to Linda Peak to eat kifumbe for an hour and then traveled down into Linda for budyankende. They left Gigi (or vice versa) here. They then traveled up the stream to LK4, behind the Linda Peak area. There they fed on mshai until Gigi returned and there was grooming at 1330 for 1/2 hour.
They then recommenced their mshai feeding until 1543 and fed on budyankende through Upper Kasakela for 20 minutes until they arrived at Rocky Peak where they briefly fed on mshai again. The brothers silently displayed their way down to The Peak and then drummed and pant-hooted looking into Kasakela for a response: none. They then fed on msongati with Gigi, Patti, and Goblin on Peak Ridge and worked themselves down the valley (Kasakela) on mnazi leaves and kitota. They nested late at 1930 together.
ASSR Details. In the early morning during a Figan and Faben silent display into a Kasakela korongo, Goblin was briefly attacked by Faben (contact I) when Goblin got in the way [cannot read the rest of this paragraph].
Goblin eats mshai berries on an upper hillside. 
Nesting Details. The same group as last night nested late again in Lower Kasakela stream-AK7 area. They ate as a group kitota until 1853 and made their way down the path to the stream. There Figan ate kinywa from 1900 to 1911 as Faben and Goblin nested around 1906. He moved up the AK7 streambed and climbed a tree and started eating fruit. Gigi made a nest around 1915. Patti and Figan finally nested about 1930; Figan never descending trees, nested about 40 m from last food.
Travel and Feeding Summary (Day 6 – Day 11). Figan and Faben ate much mshai, a borderline grassland-forest berry found in such places as Rocky Peak, Upper Kasakela, and KK6. They also ate the kifumbe fruit found southeast of Linda Peak very often.
Figan also ate mumanda, the fig-like fruit near Jane’s, and mnazi leaves in lower and western Kasakela. Figan and Faben traveled one day to the empty (moon was full) fishing village in Linda to take advantage of empty huts for salt, and fed on a big mkuyu tree (one the few left) on route. Gigi (B=1) led them into Linda for the first time for a fast budyankende feed on the last day of the block. Msongati was a stable dependable food. He also visited the same ngazi tree twice, and twice visited a muguiza tree on the stream of Kakombe near Bygott’s old house.
Figan travels while carrying a mumanda fruit (fig) in his mouth.
The entire block seemed to revolve about food; the chimps basically going around a circle of Camp, The Peak, Rocky Peak, Linda Peak, Kasakela-Linda ridge, Lower Kasakela, Jane’s house, and then Camp again. Mshai and kifumbe definitely influenced travel. Figan came into Camp on Days 6, 8, 9, and 10, but not on Days 7 and 11.
Five Day Summary (Day 6 – Day 11). Little action with ritual travel exploiting the preferred kifumbe, mumunda, and mshai. Travel with Faben was erratic: they met on Day 7 and stayed together until late on Day 8; then came together in the afternoon of Day 10 and stayed together through Day 11. Gigi seemed to lead them into her preferred (?) Linda for budyankende on Day 11. Figan displayed impressively when he met up with groups, and Figan and Faben displayed as usual very well together. Mellow follows, with no predations, stranger contacts, or major ASSRs. Patti down and Gigi rising.
