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worked with Beck, observing feeding behavior of family of nine, under conditions where food embedded in small packages, exposed in small packages & distributed all over cages

Pleasure to watch monkeys destroy a slide box to get to food.

Specifically - mainly subadult males of family trying out new food sources.

With adult breeding male & especially female rarely going to feed at 

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new sites unless they are clearly exploitable.

Observations every afternoon at 2PM - feeding time - w/ Beck & I in quarantine outfits & splitting up food and distributing it in toilet paper cores, boxes, little baskets.

Amusing incidents:
[[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] Beck laughing like quivering jelly every time juvenile #6 stood over me & defecated.

Could hardly tell difference between shit & diet.

[[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] They never used a straw box we thought maybe because it used to be in the snake cage. at home. But a toilet paper core on the the snake cage did not [[strikethrough]] dispn [[/strikethrough]] dismay them with its odor.