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The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two Decades of Research on Cebus capucinus

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The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project began in 1990 with the study of a single white-faced capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus) group, and has since expanded to 11 groups. Social behavior has always been the primary focus of our research, with emphasis on communication, social learning, and life history strategies. Genetic analyses in the context of this long-term study have enabled research of many standard behavioral ecology topics such as kin-based altruism, reproductive skew, and inbreeding avoidance. Long-term research on numerous groups, and collaboration with researchers at other C. capucinus sites, has permitted the documentation of social traditions regarding both communicative rituals and foraging techniques.

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Acknowledgments

The following field assistants contributed a year or more of data to this data set, in addition to data collected by the authors: B. Barrett, L. Beaudrot, M. Bergstrom, R. Berl, A. Bjorkman, L. Blankenship, J. Broesch, J. Butler, F. Campos, C. Carlson, M. Corrales, N. Donati, C. Dillis, G. Dower, R. Dower, K. Feilen, A. Fuentes J., M. Fuentes A., C. Gault, H. Gilkenson, I. Gottlieb, J. Gros-Louis, S. Herbert, S. Hyde, L. Johnson, S. Leinwand, T. Lord, M. Kay, E. Kennedy, D. Kerhoas-Essens, E. Johnson, S. Kessler, J. Manson, W. Meno, C. Mitchell, A. Neyer, C. O’Connell, J.C.Ordoñez Jiménez, N. Parker, B. Pav, K. Potter, K. Ratliff, H. Ruffler, M. Saul, I. Schamberg, C. Schmitt, J. Verge, A. Walker-Bolton, E. Wikberg, and E. Williams. We are particularly grateful to H. Gilkenson, W. Lammers, C. Dillis and M. Corrales for managing the field site. E. Wikberg and W. Lammers contributed a year or more of effort to organizing the dataset. The genetic analysis was conducted by L. Muniz and I. Godoy in Linda Vigilant’s lab. This project is based on work supported by the funding provided to SEP by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the National Science Foundation (grants No. SBR-9870429, 0613226 and 6848360, a graduate fellowship, and an NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellowship), five grants from the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, three grants from the National Geographic Society, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Sigma Xi, an I.W. Killam postdoctoral fellowship, and several faculty development or student grants and fellowships from University of California-Los Angeles and The University of Michigan. IG was supported by the following fellowships: Eugene Cota-Robles, Ford Predoctoral Diversity, NSF graduate research, UCLA NSF AGEP competitive edge, UCLA IRSP, UC DIGSSS summer research mentorship, and two UCLA anthropology research grants. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or other funding agencies. I thank the Costa Rican park service (MINAET and SINAC, currently), Hacienda Pelon de la Bajura, Hacienda Brin D’Amour, and the residents of San Ramon de Bagaces for permission to work on their land. This research was performed in compliance with the laws of Costa Rica, and the protocol was approved by the University of Michigan IACUC (protocol #3081) and the UCLA animal care committee (ARC #1996–122 and 2005–084 plus various renewals). J. Manson provided comments on the manuscript.

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    Susan Perry & Irene Godoy

  2. Proyecto de Monos, Bagaces, Costa Rica

    Wiebke Lammers

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Perry, S., Godoy, I., Lammers, W. (2012). The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project: Two Decades of Research on Cebus capucinus . In: Kappeler, P., Watts, D. (eds) Long-Term Field Studies of Primates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7_7

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