In February, we continue our annual Colombian squirrel monkeys baby counts and we started our ornate titi monkey’s distribution project samplings in Upia- Meta rivers confluence and Metica river source. Although there were just a few days of sampling, work was intense and lots of distance were covered. Deforestation on both areas is widespread and monkeys are using living fences alongside primary, secondary and tertiary roads as corridors. Colombian squirrel monkeys are still having babies, with some females with infants of around one month and other still pregnant as usual for this species, in all sites visited. Ornate titi monkeys are more elusive up to now in our samplings with some local people reporting them occasionally in some areas but not in others.
During the first month of the year, Colombian Llanos had its drier season and with El Niño phenomenon, this month all rivers in the region had very low level, making navigability very difficult and access to some forest fragments near to rivers complicated by river or land, a challenge we had to sort during this month samplings.
During this field trip we also register red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus), black capped capuchins (Sapajus apella fatuellus), and crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) using open areas and living fences. Some prints of capybaras were also recorded on Meta riverbanks. We were also fortunate to had great people helping us with our samplings, especially Stella, Jose, Sr. Vanegas and Francisco, who support several aspects of our samplings during this month.

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