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Howlers of La Pacifica (9/1970, ongoing)
Field Study in the Americas
Web Site: http://www.baa.duke.edu/facpages/glander.html
Location of Site: COSTA RICA, Hacienda La Pacifica

Director: Ken Glander
Phone: 919 668-0267   Fax: 919 660-7348   E-Mail: glander@duke.edu
011 Bio Sci Bldg., Durham, North Carolina 27708
Department: Biological Anth/Anat
Institution: Duke University

Sponsoring Institution(s): Duke University

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 howler)

Last Updated: 2006-08-19

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