News from the Nyakatura Lab

…with a backpack full of amazing data. Welcome back! Patricia spent 5 month at the Estacíon Biológica Quebrada Blanco in Amazonian Peru. This is a field station run by the German Primate Center with well habituated mixed species troops of callitrichids, small New World primates. Patricia studied how the closely related species Leontopithecus nigrifrons and Saguinus mystax utilize their habitat. We hypothesize that behavioural differences are also reflected in their limb morphology and aim to show the functional significance of these morphological differences. Patricia quantified the primates’ jumping behaviour in relation to support parameters. We are glad you made it back in (relatively) good health, Patricia! Next: analysis.