Predation Report — Colobus Sightings
Nine Colobus Sightings Without Hunting
- Day 2 (July 1st): Figan and Faben were returning from Upper Linda when they passed this same troop at the Linda stream. Figan sat and watched briefly and then moved on. Faben had been sick early in the morning, perhaps because of eating meat the previous day.
- Day 4 (July 3rd): Figan, Faben, Gigi, Athena, and Atlas were feeding on budyankende in Upper Linda when a colobus troop was heard several hundred meters off in LK7. Figan stopped feeding for 15 minutes. Monkeys were heard during this period, but Figan perhaps was waiting for others to finish feeding. The group then left the LK7 area and traveled back to the main Linda stream.
- Day 13 (July 12th): The chimps traveled through Upper Linda and nested in LK7 only 100 m from a colobus troop. This troop was heard or seen twice by the chimps early in the morning of Day 14 but no interest was taken. Upon returning to Upper Kasakela the chimps “stumbled”upon another colobus troop. Figan caught a monkey after a 15 minute hunt (see Day 14).
- Day 21 (July 20th): At 1645, the chimps (minus Faben) come across a red colobus troop in KK6. They look up and Figan briefly puts hair out. The colobus are avoiding, traveling away from us. There is little attention paid to them, except one charge into a tree that contained colobus by Figan, who quickly attacked and chased after Gigi instead of the colobus. Earlier that day they had killed a mother-infant colobus pair in Upper Linda Valley.
- Day 27 (July 26th): At 1655, a large adult male colobus traveled on the ground to where Figan, Faben, and Athena-less Atlas fed on kitota. We could hear it from a long way off on the ground, and I thought it was Athena, who had left a sleeping Atlas an hour before. The colobus approached to within 5 m of me, and within arm’s reach of Figan and shoved Figan a little. Atlas avoided to Faben. Figan hair-out a little, but not much more of a response. Atlas had been whimpering some which might have prompted the colobus to approach. The colobus avoided up into a tree and sat within 5 m of the males for a couple of minutes. Figan slowly climbed the tree and the colobus slowly avoided higher into the tree. The colobus stayed about 15 m from Figan and Atlas in the tree and they did not bother each other again.
- Day 32 (July 31st): During travel through Lower Linda, colobus monkeys were heard on July 31st.
- Day 38 (August 6th): A large group traveled to Bare-tree and Hidden korongos in Kahama. A troop of red-monkeys was seen in Hidden korongo; colobus monkeys were seen in lower Mkenke but were mostly ignored as the chimps traveled to Bare-Tree.
- Day 42 (August 10th): Figan charged up into a tree scattering some five animals at 1845, while Mike charged up another tree and sat. Humphrey charged up the hill a ways. The three males never chased a colobus and later they returned to the ground and Figan resumed feeding.
- Day 46 (August 14th): Figan found a colobus troop as he was traveling alone through upper KK1 from Mkenke at 0824. Figan sat under the troop and watched as monkeys gave alarm calls. Figan watched the monkeys for 15 minutes, changing his position a few times. Figan put his hair out (1/2) once but made no attempt to catch monkeys. Figan left the monkeys at 0841.