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with Kings Island with their new dye marks & responses to the collars & transmitters.

♀ #1 is moving around [[strikethrough]] look [[/strikethrough]] looking as though she is hungry & tired. She has dye in splatters along her back & somehow just looks dirty.

Knowing how thin she now is, we watch her nursing & watch the infants taking food from her.

Both infants stay with her a lot. Her weight loss may derive from the lack of an 

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alpha male & her[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]] role as the major caretaker, even with so many juveniles around.

[[strikethrough]] ♂ #5 [[/strikethrough]]

♀ #1 is clearly showing or emitting signs of heat since both males 7 & 8 are consorting with her and mounting. However Dietz thought that she might be pregnant so it could be a false heat of pregnancy - although [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] it should be more obvious with palpation ^[[(altho. JMD thought she might be preg. with palpation)]]

#5 ♂ is arch walking periodically, also suggesting some tension in the group.

♀ #6 hangs around ♀ #1