Fifty Days in the Life of Figan

Figan Follow Audio — Sherry Rain Display

Sherry performs a silent rain display.

From Curt’s Field Notes: Sherry sat huddled alone in upper Kasakela valley during heavy rain and looked quite miserable. At 1406 there was a tremendous clap of thunder that really shook Sherry. He threw a rock, put his hour out, went bipedal, and branch-waved. Sherry charged and branch-waved for six minutes, going into a tree to branch-wave for the last two minutes. His display was quite unpolished; certainly nothing like a Figan display. This was Sherry’s first known rain display.

0:00 June 6, 1974 — the clip starts well into the follow.
1:10 Heavy rain starts.
2:03 Thunder clap. Sherry starts his silent display
3:40 Sherry stops displaying. The rain subsides.