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The [[strikethrough]] sou [[/strikethrough]] vocalization sounds more powerful than [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] any I'd heard. And it was so clearly aggressive & different from mobbing. 

Zeke indicated that she would produce sound when agitated, when 1st seeing you, but she was generally quiet when she finally advanced to attack. 

Rita clearly moving between us and Ron with infants. Later Zeke & I realize she may also have been aggressive since she was protecting the viveiro platform "food source" of bananas. 

Aggression not just due to site & babies since she had attacked Andrea at another site while pregnant. 

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17 [[underlined]] Feb [[/underlined]] 
MON

At one point she advanced in trees &  Zeke & I retreated. 

Eventually we retreated 3 times; the last two times when she approached, she was totally quiet & moving very quietly & deliberately close to the ground. She came w/in 2 m of me on the ground before turning back. [[strikethrough]] She [[/strikethrough]] I carried a heavy stick, but was actually nervous - she had no fear of humans, had successfully attacked before. Could happily do so again. 

My strategy was [[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] to speak normally & move around

[[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] to try not to retreat at all her advances (don't reinforce aggression &

[[circled]] 3 [[/circled]] scream at her if she advanced too closely (noise instead of force)

My strategy didn't work well on DAY 1.