Capuchins de Taboga Research Project

Capuchins de Taboga is a new project (launched June of 2017) studying the behavior of wild white-faced capuchins in the Taboga forest reserve of Costa Rica. We work in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Técnica (UTN) and the Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion (SINAC) who manage the reserve. We are interested in all aspects of capuchin behavior, but we are focused on social cognition, communication, and hormone-behavior relationships. We have habituated three groups of capuchins and are habituating 2 + others. At this point we are collecting long-term behavioral data, recording vocalizations, extracting hormones from fecal samples, and performing cognitive experiments on feeding platforms. 

For more information click here to check out our project website. To read our Code of Conduct click here.

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