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They also ran along horizontal and diagonal branches. This looked a good deal more squirrel-like, quite rapid. But I think that the gait was always a gallop; again both front limbs moving in unison and both back limbs moving in unison.

I saw them resting only when clinging to vertical or near vertical surfaces. In more or less vertical postures. Quite Indriid or S. Juscicollis-like.

They moved up and down both very large and very thin trunks.

They did not make any long [Saguinus?]-like leaps.

Some aspects of their feeding are very peculiar indeed!!! According to the [Fulerbringers?] (both father and son) they gnaw lots of tiny holes in certain trees and then suck or lick the sap from them. Young [Fulerbringer?] showed me a tree which he said had been treated in this way. It certainly was pitted with tiny holes. And we saw it visited by all three of the Pygmies. Each [lugan?] near the bottom of the trunk and gradually worked its way upward. And each put its head to almost every one of the holes on the way. With mouth movements which may well have been licking.

Some or all of the holes certainly were quite old. This makes it very unlikely that the Pygmies were extracting insects from them. This I am strongly inclined to agree with the Fuhrbringers that they were extracting some liquid. (Altho probably not necessarily pure sap).

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