tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52258517225840874812024-03-14T04:18:45.552-07:00Ed in Costa RicaSo basically I'm in Costa Rica at the moment working on a field project for a PhD student. We are primarily collecting behavioural data on white-faced capuchin monkeys. I will be telling you about it in this blog, with hopefully lots of photos.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01807686645780264934noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225851722584087481.post-37435951098778900882014-03-24T16:33:00.000-07:002014-03-24T16:33:48.836-07:00Vignette #5: Every photo I have of monkeys with their tongues out<br />
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So remember how I mentioned that the monkeys could be bullies sometimes? Well this one time we found a kinkajou. On a side note I would like to express my sincere hope that you are all appreciating as much as I do the wonderful names that Latin American wildlife seems to have. Yesterday, I would like to remind you, we had Caracaras and Great Potoos. You're welcome.<br />
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Cute, I hear you say. Decent photos, too. Not as nice or in focus as some of the other gorgeous pieces of work we've seen on this masterpiece of a blog<br />
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...but let's be reasonable here. Maybe Ed was drunk when he took that one.<br />
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Well, first of all, how dare you. That would be unprofessional.<br />
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And secondly, if anyone was drunk, it was the kinkajou. Drunk on <i style="font-weight: bold;">fear</i>. Most of the photos I took turned out more like this...<br />
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The noises the monkeys are making are called mild vocal threats, or squeak threats, code AVO.<br />
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They let him go after a while, but not before they'd called him fat and given him a wedgie. Nature is cruel.<br />
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I enjoy birds, I do. I love it when people point out cool birds and tell me what they are. But unless it's a penguin you've just seen that's inexplicably migrated to Costa Rica, odds are I'm going to carry on staring at the baby monkey that's sticking its tongue out at me.</div>
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As a result, while I have, I believe, enough bird photos to warrant its own mini-post, anyone expecting a full run-down on the birds of Costa Rica, their feeding habits and migration patterns, may be disappointed. Seriously, I have, like, five birds here. Anyway, here we go.</div>
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So amongst the most common birds around here are the back vultures. These smelly creatures just ooze evil, I mean look at them:</div>
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We live around farm-lands, and there are lots of cattle, horses, and even a pig-farm not too far around river. Sometimes, these things die. Always, they get surrounded by these creepy death-pigeons and slowly torn to shreds even as they decompose in the most horrifically smelly way imaginable.<br />
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This kingfisher, which is definitely not recycled material, is known for being pretty and for rescuing drowning monarchs.<br />
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Now, we come to some of the photos I am genuinely pleased about. This little guy, apart from being very uncommon, also has without a shred of doubt the best name of any of the birds you will ever read about in a monkey-themed blog. It seems to be stolen from a Terry Pratchet, or at least a mediocre children's magician.<br />
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Great Potoo:<br />
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Now these photos I'm genuinely proud of. These are of a Caracara, a bird of prey seen here chin-wagging with a horse:</div>
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So a while back, I was out with Flakes, minding my own business, when I come across 3 monkeys appearing rather subdued in a tree. Intrigued, I moved closer and noticed that one of them was a very small howler. The two juvenile capuchins were crowded around it and sort of poking it. It wasn't really responding, just sort of shaking its head a bit.</div>
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Now capuchins love harassing howlers. Its one of their favourite pastimes. Generally they will chase one for a few seconds while it plods off, occasionally producing a few harumpfs of outrage. All in good fun, not nearly as vicious as the bullying they submit other animals to, such as kinkajous (see upcoming vignette) - but all the same, enough to bait a reaction from the howlers. </div>
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This little guy, however, seemed completely oblivious. I say guy, by the way, not because I was able to tell its sex, but because future events made it necessary for him to be male for the wonderfully apt name I gave him to be gender-appropriate.</div>
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It was clear that he had been severely mauled by something much larger than himself. Most of the right side of his face was ripped open, his eye was oozing pus, and his emaciated body suggested he had not been able to eat properly in days.</div>
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I enquired as to the possible culprits. One possible cause is attempted infanticide by an unrelated older male. This would serve the purpose of making his mother fertile again. You see this in capuchins a lot when a new alpha takes over a group, because nature is cruel and monkeys don't care about human sensibilities, apparently.</div>
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Approximately one month later, and we are out with the monkeys again. The monkeys pursue a howler, who half-heartedly moves out of the way. This one is particularly small considering there are no others in sight; as a rule it is only adult males that roam alone. I take out my binoculars, and almost immediately fumble with them in disbelief.</div>
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Undaunted by its lack of depth perception, it seemed to face life head on, with aplomb, looking adversity in the eyes and saying: "Sod off, adversity." It was a completely different beast from that other howler monkey that seemed so insecure when I called it boring.</div>
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We came across Harvey once more after this. His condition appeared further improved, although I did not have my camera on that occasion. I have instructed everyone here to keep a lookout for Harvey whenever they wander into Flakes' territory in the future. I wish him a long and fruitful life, and I'm sure you all do too.</div>
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So my time with Flakes group is over! All the wonderful monkeys you have come to know and love over the course of this blog (you did grow to know and love them right? right??) will now have to fend for themselves, robbed of my loving gaze every day.<br />
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However, I am now spreading the love to many of the 9 other monkey groups out there. It turns out, each of the groups is rather different in their own way (remember what I said about the cultural traits). So anyway, here are some new monkeys for you to consider.<br />
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Oh yeah. Power comes with a price tag. Pitufo has a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pitufo.mono?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> by the way.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01807686645780264934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225851722584087481.post-21483354954613033312014-03-16T16:00:00.001-07:002014-03-16T16:00:10.086-07:00New chapterSorry again for lateness! I'd give an excuse, but then, when was the last time you wrote to me giving me an update of your goings on complete with photos? Huh? Didn't think so.<br />
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Anyway, last month Brendan, Maxine and I completed our four-month field season with Flakes group, the monkeys you have been seeing up until now. We finished all the experiments I described last post, and Brendan flew home. We had been so efficient, in fact, that Brendan left a month earlier than he had originally planned, and I have been doing standard assistant stuff ever since. It was definitely the efficiency thing that made him leave, by the way. He assured me in no mild terms that my body odor hardly played any role in his decision. So I have that going for me. Also these photos:<br />
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... we had a goodbye party (the other PhD group also left, leaving only the core team here), and got a little tipsy...</div>
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My team went out for one last hurrah with Flakes group (I will be seeing them again, but I have mainly been working with different groups this month) and I finally got a couple of photos of myself with them (I've been hearing a lot of muttering that I'm making the whole thing up, so...)<br />
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Anyway, life is rather different now. There are fewer of us here, and I have had to learn a whole new bunch of monkey IDs. I'm also trying to finish editing my data for Brendan, and figuring out my future (I've been accepted to a couple of PhD programs in the US, including to UCLA where I would return to work with these monkeys, but I haven't made any kind of decision yet), and mentally gearing up for my family to come visit at the end of the month. It's been hard work and I again apologise for not posting recently.<br />
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<b>However,</b> that is about to change (again) (hopefully). I have decided that instead of trying to write long themed posts explaining what has happened in my life since the last post (like this one), I will skip ahead and tell you everything that will happen right now. I have two more weeks of work here, after which my parents and siblings will turn up. I will introduce them to my monkey friends, and then we will see Costa Rica together. Then my travels here will be over. Some time soon I will make a decision about my future, and I will most definitely be going to Japan for a month and a half, but you probably won't hear about that on this blog (although again, that sneaky url does give me some wiggle room).<br />
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That being said, I still have a whole lot to post about. Lots of little things happened here that yielded some pretty cool photos, which I was unable to fit into the aforementioned longform posts. So I have decided to bring these mini-episodes to you in the form of what I shall be calling vignettes, because I am pretentious. I will pre-write these and upload them hopefully once a day. There should be material for at least 10 of these, so my plan is to have a week and a half of new content being posted every day. Tell your friends. (Don't actually tell your friends).<br />
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Tomorrow will be introducing you to some new monkeys, including Pitufo, who is missing a hand, Moth, who is missing a nose, and Hannukah, who is missing a soul. The day after you will be meeting Harvey Dent, the most badass howler monkey this side of Guatemala. Also expect some wildlife posts. And a newborn baby.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01807686645780264934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225851722584087481.post-24572149981027888532014-01-31T21:13:00.000-08:002014-02-22T18:39:13.887-08:00Just what on Earth do I think I'm doing? Another month, another holiday, and another brief window of opportunity to write things. I'm in Nicaragua at the moment because I can't stay in the country for more than three months at a time without a special visa, although it's completely fine so long as I hop across the border for a couple of days every three months because [logical reasons].<br />
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I've actually spent less time than I would have liked Nicaragua-ing, and rather more time working on data entry, which requires me to listen to literally hours of my own recorded voice, multiple times. I'm even beginning to find myself quite annoying, if any of you fine people can imagine such a thing.</div>
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Anyway I thought I would take opportunity to explain a bit more about this project and what I do here. It may be a bit more wordy than other posts, and probably quite boring to many of you, so feel free to skip it, although there will be some cool photos which you should definitely have a glance at.<br />
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I work at <a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/sperry/">Lomas de Barbudal monkey project</a>. If you follow that link you'll find out that the project was founded in 1990; and if you ever hear me complain about conditions here bear in mind that Susan Perry founded this place when there were no maps, no trails, and no GPS; when in order to follow the monkeys (who were unhabituated, mind, so very vigilant of humans and prone to staying high up in trees and running off very fast) you had to crash completely blind through the unfamiliar wilderness with nothing but guts and a machete to use as tools. Nowadays, if anything, the monkeys are a little <i>too</i> familiar around us as we regularly catch them in compromising situations.<br />
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Anyway this place is the longest continuously-running primate field project in the history of ever, which is super important and cool when studying a species like capuchins. </div>
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Capuchins have very complex social lives and also learn to forage hard to eat fruits by watching older individuals do so. The Lomas monkeys in particular are quite famous for demonstrating group specific learned behaviours: one of the most convincing examples of culture in a non-human species.</div>
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Capuchins, like chimps and other species including non-primate ones, have been shown to display culturally transmitted foraging behaviour, but the Lomas monkeys are famous for something else that they do. Certain groups, including the one that I study, play these very specific and slightly odd-looking games with each other. These generally involve taking a finger, a stick, a leaf, or some other object and inserting it into another monkey's mouth and having them bite down on it while the first monkey tries to pull it out. Sometimes they also insert fingers into each other's nostril in what is known as cultural hand-sniffing.</div>
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What is fascinating is that these games seem to be completely absent in most groups, where they simply have never caught on. In others, such as Flakes, the group I study, they play them all the time. Monkeys who have been taught to play go on to initiate the games with younger monkeys as they grow up. </div>
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If I can get geeky on you for a moment, I just want to really hammer home how cool this is. These games seemingly serve no purpose, except for perhaps bonding, which is generally achieved through grooming; and yet these traditions are perpetuated organically within a group. </div>
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We rightly think of culture and tradition as among the most important defining elements of humanity. They provide humans with our diversity, our shared meaning and sense of belonging; it lies at the root of language, art, and science. Each of us is so profoundly shaped by our culture that it's hard not to conclude that culture is what makes us human to begin with. And here are these little guys, with their strange traditions that must seem so alien to monkeys of different groups.</div>
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Ok, so, all this is well and fine, but you still don't know what I do over here. Well, first of all you should know I am not in the position of a standard assistant as advertised on the Lomas website. These assistants come for a year and participate in the general effort of the project, keeping tabs on the various groups and documenting the changing group dynamics, collecting data as is needed and with possibly a different emphasis depending on Susan Perry's current research interests and what her grants are based on. By the way, on the rather slim off-chance that this blog finds its way to someone who might actually be interested in doing something similar, these assistants are in short supply, so do think about applying if you want fieldwork experience. </div>
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Anyway I have been employed by a grad student, Brendan, who needs assistants for 5 months to help him with his research on social learning. Social learning, that is, learning from other individuals rather than by trial and error on your own, is a really big field in animal behaviour. Big questions include whether animals can imitate each other, whether or not they actively teach each other, what cues they pick up on while learning from others, and which individuals they decide to learn from. It's this question in particular that we are really looking at.</div>
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BUT you're still only seeing what goes on in captivity. And as such you never really know how these "unnatural" conditions affect the animals' behaviour. Plenty of animals are observed to do things in captivity which they never do in the wild, so you never know if you are witnessing something that truly reflects the evolutionary pressures that your animals have undergone, or whether they are just reacting and adapting to artificial conditions.</div>
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And this is where Brendan's work is so ingenious. The group we study, Flakes group, is an offshoot of a larger group that split off and migrated to a different, only slightly overlapping territory about 10 years ago. as luck would have it, their new territory is completely devoid of a type of tree which produces a difficult-to-forage fruit called the Panama fruit. These fruit have tasty seeds enclosed in a tough exterior which ca be accessed through a variety of techniques.</div>
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So this, mainly, is what I do here. We follow the monkeys around wearing ponchos (which they are used to seeing us wear in the rainy season) and when they're not looking, crouch down and place fruits on the ground. We then walk away and wait for them to see the fruits, then we record what they do. It's actually a lot more exciting than it sounds.<br />
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Ok, I feel like that was wordy enough. Thanks for making it through this far. I have loads of cool wildlife photos built up so I should have some photo-heavy posts up soon to make up for this, but yeah. Now you know what I do. For the record we are getting lots of great data and it's really a whole lot of fun, if a lot of work. We record what they do on a dictaphone, as I explained earlier, and that means a whole lot of listening to myself talk so I can enter data into an Excel spreadsheet.<br />
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First up, Napoleon (who you may remember as the derpy monkey) caught and killed a squirrel the other day. It's worth mentioning that Napoleon was born in 1991, like me. This monkey is my age. That's crazy to me. How is it that so many people my age have already accomplished so much? First Jennifer Lawrence wins an Oscar and now this? I'll probably never even catch and eat a squirrel in my lifetime, but here he is:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01807686645780264934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225851722584087481.post-72703302018228346292014-01-05T13:55:00.000-08:002014-01-11T10:16:03.004-08:00Sneaky Climby Bastards So hey, I know I said I would explain about the project and the work we do here, but I might save that for some other time because it might be long. And I don't have much time, but I figure I should post more often. So this might be a filler episode. Also I said I would do a post on the wildlife I've seen but I figure I might stretch that material to cover several posts, because otherwise I will definitely run out of things to say. It turns out I'm not actually all that interesting a person, which is why I have to trick you into thinking I am with adorable monkey photos.<br />
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So we just came back from our holiday, which I boringly spent at home, because we each have to spend one holiday (we get five days at the end of each month) guarding the house. This is why I was able to get my shit together to write a post.<br />
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Now returning from vacation it becomes abundantly clear why we have to wake up before the monkeys and stay with them until they get their tiny black and white arses to sleep. When you go looking for them and you don't know where they are, you don't find them. For a long time. It turns out capuchins are sneaky, climby bastards. These are the same monkeys that jump about and scream and break branches like the world's about to end whenever you are with them, but as soon as you leave them to their own devices for a few days, all of a sudden you cannot hear them at all. Not a peep. </div>
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Unfortunately if you look a bit closer, it becomes apparent that this particular monkey has been traumatised from a young age and is suffering from severe PTSD.<br />
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Apologies, Fictional Anthropomorphised Howler Monkey, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. You guys do have one thing going for you.<br />
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Anyway, right now there are a bunch of you (probably) saying: "But Ed! You said you were going to show us wildlife, and all you have is more monkeys? There's more than life to monkeys, you know." And right <i>now</i> the same bunch of you is probably receiving a lot of confused looks from the people in the room with you, because that's an odd thing to say to a computer screen. Hopefully they will assume you are on Skype and move on. Try not to blush too hard or you will give the game away.</div>
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SO yeah, I guess I shouldn't have started this thing if I'm only going to be updating every two months, especially since I'm only here for five (although did anyone notice the suspiciously flexible URL, hinting that possibly, maybe I'm leaving open the option of writing about something other than Costa Rica? I'm so crafty).<br />
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So the main reason I haven't been able to update is that I've been really busy. Two out of every three days are spent in the field here. Field days consist of getting up at 3:45 on average, depending on how far the monkeys went to sleep the night before. We follow them around all day collecting data and generally get back a bit before 7PM. We shower, eat dinner, and basically pass out. I found out the hard way it's frowned upon to blog at the table, let alone in the field.<br />
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On our off days we take it in turns to do a variety of chores, including cook for everyone. In addition to this you have to go over the data you've collected, edit it, upload it, fill in the numerous spreadsheets that document things like whose poop you collected for hormone processing, and do any of the tests you have to sit as a trainee. By the time all this is done, you're basically done for the day.</div>
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(David Attenborough voice here) These little things are miracles of evolution, having adapted into a symbiotic relationship with the plants whose name they share. The trees provide them with food and shelter, and the ants vigorously defend the tree against any potential threats. I wish that they would all die.<br />
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Basically they spend their time scuttling around these trees, which are EVERYWHERE. If you so much as brush up against one of these trees, which you do, several times a day, some will shake off onto you. At which point it is no longer a question of whether, but when, how many times, and where on your body you will be bitten. And the bites hurt. If you get a bunch on the same spot you will swell up unpleasantly for several days. I once got bitten 5 times on the same nipple and developed a painful breast that stuck around for a week. Seriously, I could write a book about how much I hate acacia ants.<br />
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Of course, there are all sorts of wonderful things here as well. A number of you have asked about the people I work with. Since this is technically the internet I don't want to go into too much detail about these people and risk divulging something they wouldn't want me to, so suffice it to say that we all get on really well. There are around 10 of us, of which 3 working on the project with me. Everyone here is either Canadian or American, so they can get confused by my accent sometimes, poor dears.<br />
Also there's a lot of wonderful stuff to see here apart from the capuchins. I want to only post photos I've taken here, so I'll keep the wildlife post for another time when I have better photos, but the only word to describe it all is faun-tastic.<br />
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ok thats enough. I'll tell you more about the data collection we do next time. Here are some cute photos of a little girl who's a teensy bit uncomfortable with how intense this grooming session is getting.<br />
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So I got to meet my monkeys a couple of days ago, they are adorable. Most of that day was spent trying to learn to ID them all, which it turns out I am not horrible at. I don't have all of them, but there are like five that I can recognise pretty consistently. The one thing I am definitely qualified to do is collect their poo, which has to be labeled and rated for consistency and content. I've been told to stop it, but I'm still able to add to my collection when no-one's looking.<br />
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Then yesterday Brendan the PhD student was off so he sent me and another assistant to go explore the territory so we would get to know their favorite spots to be monkeys. Turns out it's trees. I think I have the makings of a fine primatologist.<br />
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Basically for the next couple of weeks we will be training. We have to learn IDs and how to transcribe their behaviour using a rather long list of codes and syntax rules. It's probably not all that interesting for you guys so I'll leave it at this and give you some monkey photos. I will also be trying to get photos of other stuff so don't worry, it's not just going to be capuchins from here on out. But for now here are some of my favorite.<br />
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First off, this is pretty representative of where they live.<br />
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This is Quijote, the alpha male.<br />
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This is Minstrel, the alpha female.<br />
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Anyway you probably don't care about all their names, so I'll leave it at that for the introductions, but here are a few general comments about them. What I really love about these monkeys is that you can really see their individual personalities and the really intricate group dynamics that arise as a result of them. It's never really fair to say that "capuchins do" x or y; each individual and each group has different sets of behaviours and characteristics.</div>
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The second building is the bodega, essentially a huge tarp roof with a couple of buildings attached. Most of us sleep in tents under this thing, and we have a bathroom and a couple of storage rooms as well. We have to share the space with a bunch of random junk, but we have lots of room and I am confident I will eventually be able to build a small aircraft out of these spare parts if I could only find a few more rubber bands and some chewing gum.<br />
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It's actually really luxurious here. We have drinkable tap water, internet, decent kitchen and a washing machine. It's not even too unbearable hot in the shade. The howler monkeys wake you up in the morning but you need to be getting up anyway so they're totally my bros for making me not miss breakfast.</div>
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So far I've been out in the field once and didn't take my camera, so no monkey photos for you today. I get 1 day off for every 2 days in the field, and even though I have chores they re done pretty quickly so I have time to do other stuff, but the days in the field are exhausting. It's basically 15 hours of full on crashing through the jungle trying to keep up with the monkeys, craning your neck when they get high, and takes lot of mental concentration as well as you try and ID the monkeys and keep up with what they're doing. So far I've been bitten by numerous insects and arachnids, pooed on by a monkey, scratched by rash-raising plants and it's wonderful and I want to stay here lots and do it loads more.</div>
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