Today’s post is about the best part of my work, every year at the beginning of each year, my work and energy are focus on counting baby monkeys, especially Colombian squirrel baby monkeys. So as usual we start our year in Zocay Project by counting babies of Colombian squirrel monkeys, as well as ornate titi monkeys and Brumback night monkeys. All these species have babies between December and March.
The beginning of 2024 started with some new babies of all these species in San Martin, Cumaral and Villavicencio area. In following months, we also recount some of these groups as well as do our counting in Villanueva area. Also, we observed some of the older females in our Colombian squirrel monkey’s groups healthy and some seems to be pregnant and still reproducing.
But why is so important to us to count those babies? A way to know if a population is stable, growing or decreasing is by knowing how many babies born each year and more important how many of those babies survive that year and continue growing until they become adults and reproduce themselves. So as one of our main objectives is to know what is happening with monkey’s populations in the areas where we work, that is why the beginning of every year is so important for us. It is also important to do this counting every year because monkeys have long lives, therefore for a baby to grow to be an adult several years need to pass and you need be able to count and try to follow up those babies as many years as possible to be able to know what happens with their lives.
We also finished this month the field season from our collaborative project with Dr. Martha Ortiz about patch and landscape-scale effects on Brumback night monkey’s presence and abundance. Now it is time for our analysis part, more news on this project in following months.
We also started our logistic arrangements to our trips to areas that are limits of ornate titi distribution to confirm those limits and again we are grateful to Chalcraft Little Fund for their support to our work. We are also planning to expand our work on ornate titi monkeys as conservation for this species in the ground is highly need it. So, in following months we will give you more news about new activities and projects related with ornate titi monkeys and monkeys conservation, in general. Stay tuned and if you want to help, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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