ML148419
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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Dawn ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:28. Timecode out: 00:10:07. Subject 2: Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) (Gallus gallus (Domestic type)). Timecode In: 00:05:04. Timecode out: 00:07:58. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Christophe Boesch. Timecode In: 00:56:50. Timecode out: 01:07:34. Notes: Bili Ape. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Richard Wrangham. Timecode In: 00:56:50. Timecode out: 01:07:34. Notes: Bili Ape. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: George Schaller. Timecode In: 00:56:50. Timecode out: 01:07:34. Notes: Bili Ape. Subject 6: (Interview). Subtitle: George Schaller. Timecode In: 01:12:32. Timecode out: 01:15:30. Notes: Bili Ape. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Bili Ape Expedition Engineer: Thompson Date: February 8, 2001 ng = not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good 1 :00 -10:30 Long roll on Bili morning at Nikko's. Birds and cicadas. Fairly quiet, soft snoring @ 2:03, sounds nice. Rooster at 3:57, 4:39, 4:54. Snore at 4:58. Level boost at 5:05 (better). Nice rooster call and response .. .less snore. Peepers in back ...and on ... 11 :00 Second roll, a little more active. Tent zip (faint), more roosters, steps sweeping yard, etc. (AC note: Nikko's place is an old trading post from the days when Bili was prosperous. Several large (but not very) warehouse type buildings in a fenced yard, some machinery. Plaster or mud over brick ...painted a long time ago. Roof of corrugated iron or tin. Some of the walls shot up from the inside) ... more of this roll through 15:15 ... roosters, sweeping. 19:00 Move out of compound onto dirt road. Little voices. Roosters fewer and farther away. Loud chirp like cicada 19:45 Walk on dirt. 21 :30 Stop. 22:12 Stop at village to see leopard skull. CB and RW discuss size in French. Big for here, killed 2 weeks ago ... 23:00 AC, CB, BW & village chief wi stutter. .. 23 :20 Jonas Ericsen on seeing skull earlier. Congolese talk about leopard. JE in Lingali ... professional skinning job...history of skin trade ... 27:30 CB on size (nice babble behind) 28:05 Laughs of villagers 28:30 CB and RW on cross bow: primary tool to shoot the primates ... You have already a tail ... Is it poison, the end? .. RW: with no feathering ... yeah, they have no feathering ... And they have the poison vine, I think, and it has the cuts in it so that even if the monkey pulls it out, you still have something is left in the body ... RW: but are there any on there? .. yeah, it's dark. This is really old. He hasn't kept, I would not go hunting with it because the poison isn't very fresh, so then it's probably not so strong. But don't hurt yourself on it ... RW: no, no ... the black stuff there ... RW: very, very tiny, the pygmies, I mean the ???, make much stronger cuts to hold it in ... RW: so where did these cross bows come from? .. the idea must have come with ?? .. (fades behind villagers). 30:07 Laugh with bow snap 30:25: (ng) RW: this doesn't seem to take advantage of the design of the crossbow ... The bow that they put out is made out of really huge pieces of wood and you can't stretch it without getting on your knees and really using your whole back to pull it back. JE: If you can shoot, the accuracy and the distance you can get the monkeys is so far. RW: Is that, also use a metal tube like this? JB: no, they just have a groove here .. you take the wax out of the sweat bee nest, and you put a ball of wax there. They have much shorter arrows too, shorter and stockier, they push that into the wax to align it. And then they just let it go, and it's amazingly accurate. If you ever shot a gun or anything, you can shoot that one. RW so it could hit a colobus on top of a tree? JE: oh, easily. It has much bigger range than any shotgun or anything.... (Notes truncated)
Additional species
- Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) Gallus gallus (Domestic type)
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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- Cataloged
- 6 Jan 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 6 Jan 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 6 Jan 2010 - Ben Brotman