Field Notes

our blog

This blog features writing by our research trainees, as well as instructors and scientists. Together with our sister publication, One World Science (now also on Medium.com), FPI seeks to raise the profile of science in popular dialog.    

The Chiky Basterd

We’ve written about how we came to be foster parents to a young saddleback tamarin before, but here is the story, told a little differently…

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Sexing a primate

This is a family-friendly blog, but you can’t introduce your kids to wildlife if they are squeamish about bottoms. We all have bottoms and to

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Flashback to 2008

These memories are from the very first time, the very first FPI member ever stepped into the rainforest…glorious beginner’s luck mostly!

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