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The howlers of La Pacifica, Biological Anth/Anat, Duke University

Field Study

The howlers of La Pacifica, Biological Anth/Anat, Duke University

Location of field site: Costa Rica, Hacienda La Pacifica , Central America

Project Director: Ken Glander

Contact Person: Ken Glander , glander@duke.edu , 919 668-0267 Phone: 919 668-0267 Fax: 919 660-7348 E-mail: glander@duke.edu

Mailing address: 011 Bio Sci Bldg. , Durham , North Carolina 27708 USA

Research Objectives: My research has focused on studying plant-primate interactions. Currently I am directing a long-term field project (begun in 1970) investigating the interaction between plant-produced chemicals and primate feeding behavior as well as the impact this has on primate social organizations. My research objectives have expanded to include: evaluating the plant-primate interaction from an ethnobotanical perspective; the evolutionary development of optimal group size and composition; the relationship between food quality and quantity and body size; the factors affecting short and long-term demographic changes in established groups; and the role of regenerating forests on primate density. I am completing my 36th year of data collection on a population of about 60 individually marked mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) living in dry forests in northwestern Costa Rica.

Field Positions and Volunteers: contact me for opportunities

Species Studied: Alouatta palliata, mantled howling monkey

Other Species Found At Site: no other nonhuman primate

Affiliations: Duke University

Project Begin/End Dates: 9/1970, ongoing

Web Site: www.baa.duke.edu/facpages/glander.html

Comments: not applicable

Entry created: never
Review requested: 2003-11-17
Entry last reviewed: 2006-08-19


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