In today’s post we are discussing more filed news, as our fieldwork continues with the project of ornate titi monkey’s distribution limits revision, we are getting a better idea of what is the current state of this endemic primate near of its distribution limits. Samplings had been challenging in terms of logistic as it is not always easy to get access to forest, however local people information had been of great importance in this project as well as additional information given by local tourism guides, especially those focused on bird watching. So, we would like to make a call for us scientist to take advantage of the information that this group of dedicated professionals that spend a lot of time inside forest to also help us to collect information about all those primate species of which we knew very little.

So. if you are a tourism guide focused on bird watching who had seen primate species while observing birds, please contact us and let us know what monkeys and where had you seen them. (Spanish: Si eres guía turístico enfocado en observación de aves que has visto monos mientras observas aves, por favor contáctanos y déjanos saber que monos has visto y donde).

Apart from the logistic challenges, ornate titi monkey’s cryptic behavior also represents a challenge when sampling in areas close to roads with high traffic, where can be observed but they became more elusive and tend to be more silent and less responsive to playbacks. However, these challenges had also some great advantages such as the additional fauna that have been observed during these samplings, with capybara tracks (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), horned screamer (Anhima cornuta), crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous), giant ant eaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), Iguanas (Iguana iguana) and coatis (Nasua nasua) among other mammals, reptiles and birds observed during our terrestrial and riverine samplings in search of ornate titi monkeys. Additional observation of groups of other primate species also had been important as new changes for some of the species in the are occurring in terms of taxonomy and distribution. We also want to thank Primate Conservation Inc. for the additional support they grant us to continue with field sampling to better determine the northern limits of ornate titi monkeys.

In terms of other projects, we are developing, we had done some progress on squirrel monkey populations counts (Saimiri albigena (before known as Saimiri cassiquiarensis albigena)) inside Villavicencio city as well as some progress on understanding many threats this species faced in urban areas, where provisioning is becoming more common as a source of tourism income. This particular threat has been addressed by other organizations in Villavicencio with some degree of success. Although there are other threats such as electrocutions and attacks by domestic dogs that still need to be addressed. More news about this project result and publication coming soon!!

Our project about Brumback night monkeys (Aotus brumbacki) in which we evaluate variables at different scales on this species presence and abundance had its field season finished at the begging of this year, however we continue working in our publication that had receive some incredible comments from reviewers and we want to thank them because it had increased our understanding of this species enormously. More news and publication about these results coming soon!!!

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