Snakes: Food or Foe for Monkeys? Corallus hortulanus photo by Renato Augusto Martins (CC BY-SA 4.0) Author: Efstathia Robakis Most of the time, we think of the food chain as moving in one direction: the medium fish eats the little fish, the big fish eats the medium fish. We do not typically think …
A Trick of the Tail: Prehensile Tails and Primate Evolution By Luke Fannin When we look at ourselves in the mirror each morning, we are constantly reminded of our ape ancestry. For, like our fellow ape cousins – the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – we lack something that most other primates possess: a long tail. …
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It was getting close to the end of the field season. We were tired, craving junk food, covered in ticks and… critically, short of monkey poops. Stefano and I were now the sole members of the 2017 Primate Poop Patrol, and it was our responsibility to go out every day into the rainforest and collect fresh …
For six weeks this summer I was both a student and a research assistant at a remote field station in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon. I spent the majority of my time there studying two of its most dynamic and fascinating mammal species, the emperor and saddleback tamarins. Much of my days there were …
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By Ishaan Raghunandan, Edited by Ben Lybarger Camera trapping has always been an exciting part of FPI’s research agenda. Although FPI works in two biodiversity hotspots, in both Peru and the Western Ghats of India, sightings of many terrestrial mammals is rare. Studying such elusive fauna without giving away your own presence is extremely challenging. Over the …
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One Student’s Photographic Quest In August 2016, FPI offered our first conservation photography workshop led by Ishaan Raghunandan in the Peruvian Amazon. The following is his account of student Ari Farzaneh’s journey to find and document her favorite Neotropical primate. Ari had won our photo contest this summer and was able to attend this workshop free of …
By Ben Lybarger | Photos by Ishaan Raghunandan It was a typical afternoon in the Amazon when suddenly a troop of capuchin monkeys stormed through camp in a bluster of bending branches and daring leaps. Almost anyone who witnesses such a commotion instantly admires the deft movements, and once your eyes lock with one of …
By Isabel Ríos [one_half]Un ensayo fotográfico por Isabel Ríos, un alumno de nuestro curso de campo del invierno. Todos los derechos de autor de fotos Isabel Ríos 2016, usado con permiso. Para los amantes de la naturaleza, la selva amazónica es realmente un paraíso, uno de esos lugares a los que te prometes volver …
Should the Imperial Mustache be more Presidential? By Ben Lybarger T. Roosevelt image public domain. Tamarin image modified from Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia Commons. As President’s Day is now upon us, perhaps it is time to consider one of the highest merits not yet conferred to any U.S. president: an honorable association with a tiny Neotropical …
Growing up in small town New Jersey, just 15 minutes away from the Manhattan skyline, future doctoral student Effie Robakis could not have imagined that her life choices would culminate in months spent deep in the Peruvian Amazon following monkeys with a microphone in hand, braving botflies while sloshing around in mud-breached boots. It …
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