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Course: Field Primatology
Instructor: Dr. Brandi Wren
Dates: 20 June - 10 July 2015
Description:
Students will travel South Africa for 3 weeks while learning about nonhuman primates and introductory research techniques for studying them. Students will learn how to collect systematic behavioral data and basic vegetation data. The course will begin with lectures, orientation, bush skills training, tutorials, and fieldwork at Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, where students will have access to habituated vervets as well as chacma baboons and lesser bushbabies. We will then visit Leshiba Wilderness Reserve for fieldwork and lectures. Students will have opportunities to view 5 primate species at Leshiba – chacma baboons, vervet monkeys, samango monkeys, lesser bushbabies and thick-tailed bushbabies. Next, we will spend six nights in the remote wilderness of Makuleke Contractual Park, inside the very northern tip of Kruger National Park. We will stay at the EcoTraining Makuleke Camp, where students will be trained in field skills by some of the best field guide instructors in southern Africa. Makuleke boasts great densities of baboons, vervets, and bushbabies. Students will then get a brief break during the scenic Panorama Route drive and overnights at Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve. We will also visit CARE Baboon Sanctuary and the Vervet Monkey Foundation (VMF) sanctuary. We will wrap up the trip with a visit to Sterkfontein and Maropeng Caves to see the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site before flying home.
Cost: $4600 + airfare
More info: http://www.sepela.org/?page_id=260
Instructor: Dr. Brandi Wren
Dates: 20 June - 10 July 2015
Description:
Students will travel South Africa for 3 weeks while learning about nonhuman primates and introductory research techniques for studying them. Students will learn how to collect systematic behavioral data and basic vegetation data. The course will begin with lectures, orientation, bush skills training, tutorials, and fieldwork at Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, where students will have access to habituated vervets as well as chacma baboons and lesser bushbabies. We will then visit Leshiba Wilderness Reserve for fieldwork and lectures. Students will have opportunities to view 5 primate species at Leshiba – chacma baboons, vervet monkeys, samango monkeys, lesser bushbabies and thick-tailed bushbabies. Next, we will spend six nights in the remote wilderness of Makuleke Contractual Park, inside the very northern tip of Kruger National Park. We will stay at the EcoTraining Makuleke Camp, where students will be trained in field skills by some of the best field guide instructors in southern Africa. Makuleke boasts great densities of baboons, vervets, and bushbabies. Students will then get a brief break during the scenic Panorama Route drive and overnights at Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve. We will also visit CARE Baboon Sanctuary and the Vervet Monkey Foundation (VMF) sanctuary. We will wrap up the trip with a visit to Sterkfontein and Maropeng Caves to see the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site before flying home.
Cost: $4600 + airfare
More info: http://www.sepela.org/?page_id=260
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