Toni Ziegler - Executive Secretary Volume 29, Number 3 September 2005 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PRIMATOLOGISTS A Message from the President... F F F ASP EDUCATION COMMITTEE’S STUDENT PRIZE AWARD WINNERS! HONORABLE MENTIONS: Brian Kelly. Performance of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) on a scale model task. Oral Presentation. Rachel Dvoskin. Functional variation of the Macaca mulatta CRH gene is associated with temperament and reproductive outcome. Paper Presentation. PAPER WINNER: Mitchell Irwin. Living in forest fragments reduces group cohesion in diademed sifakas (Propithecus diademi) in Eastern Madagascar by reducing patch size of food resources. POSTER WINNER: Dorothy Mandell. Computer training procedures and software for use with nonhuman primate infants. What can one write at a time like this? Our extremely successful meeting in Portland is followed by a natural disaster on the Gulf Coast that fortunately seems to have more or less spared the nonhuman primate resources and facilities in the Gulf Coast area. Clearly, many, many human resources and facilities were not spared. At the meeting in Portland I had begun discussions relating to an effort that I was calling’“Diminish Suffering”. The goal of this initiative is to attempt to provide resources so that field primatologists can help to diminish suffering near the sites where they are working. The idea is to have ASP contribute one”“unit of medical-type supplies” (the type and exact quantity of these supplies has yet to be determined) to field workers for them to then provide to the source country communities in which they are working. While the ultimate goal is to diminish suffering in these specific areas, a concurrent goal is to increase the value of the research and the researcher in the area. Clearly, this needs to be accomplished in a way that will not endanger the researcher in any way. I think this is a good idea, because ASP members work around the globe and through a program like this we might be able to achieve some minimal decrease in the amount of suffering people experience. It is now obvious that we should also consider attempts to diminish suffering closer to our homes as well. It is clear that situations differ between developed and developing countries, but it is just as clear that suffering knows little about such distinctions. I am still interested in pursuing the field primatologist component of this initiative and have sought guidance from Randy Kyes and Lynne Miller, among others, about how to actually implement it. If you have some ideas, please contact me and we can discuss it. I am eager to receive additional input. The rest of this message is primarily devoted to thanks and congratulations. On behalf of the Society, I thank all of you who attended the recent meeting in Portland and congratulate you on an excellent meeting. I have attended 25 of the last 26 ASP meetings and the last 22 in a row. I can’t remember a meeting that was better. The science was great, the local arrangements were great, and the social program was outstanding. Kris Coleman and the local arrangements committee and Larry Williams, Peter Judge, and the program committee deserve both our thanks and congratulations. I hope the success of this meeting will stimulate more members to participate more actively in the many activities of ASP. The thanks and congratulations don’t end there, however. I want to thank Janette Wallis and the conservation committee for their continuing contributions to the Continued on Page 5
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September 2005 ASP Bulletin Vol. 29, No. 3 Page 1
Toni Ziegler - Executive SecretaryVolume 29, Number 3 September 2005
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PRIMATOLOGISTS
A Message from the President...
F F F
ASP EDUCATION COMMITTEE’S STUDENT PRIZE AWARD WINNERS!HONORABLE MENTIONS: Brian Kelly.Performance of Rhesus Monkeys (Macacamulatta) on a scale model task. Oral Presentation.Rachel Dvoskin. Functional variation of theMacaca mulatta CRH gene is associated withtemperament and reproductive outcome. PaperPresentation.
PAPER WINNER: Mitchell Irwin. Living inforest fragments reduces group cohesion indiademed sifakas (Propithecus diademi) in EasternMadagascar by reducing patch size of foodresources.
POSTER WINNER: Dorothy Mandell.Computer training procedures and software foruse with nonhuman primate infants.
What canone write at atime like this?Our extremelysuccessfulmeeting inPortland isfollowed by anatural disasteron the GulfCoast that
fortunately seems to have more orless spared the nonhuman primateresources and facilities in the GulfCoast area. Clearly, many, manyhuman resources and facilities werenot spared. At the meeting inPortland I had begun discussionsrelating to an effort that I wascalling’“Diminish Suffering”. Thegoal of this initiative is to attempt toprovide resources so that fieldprimatologists can help to diminishsuffering near the sites where theyare working. The idea is to have ASPcontribute one”“unit of medical-typesupplies” (the type and exact quantityof these supplies has yet to bedetermined) to field workers for themto then provide to the source country
communities in which they areworking. While the ultimate goal isto diminish suffering in thesespecific areas, a concurrent goal is toincrease the value of the researchand the researcher in the area.Clearly, this needs to beaccomplished in a way that will notendanger the researcher in any way.I think this is a good idea, becauseASP members work around theglobe and through a program likethis we might be able to achievesome minimal decrease in theamount of suffering peopleexperience. It is now obvious thatwe should also consider attempts todiminish suffering closer to ourhomes as well. It is clear thatsituations differ between developedand developing countries, but it isjust as clear that suffering knowslittle about such distinctions. I amstill interested in pursuing the fieldprimatologist component of thisinitiative and have sought guidancefrom Randy Kyes and Lynne Miller,among others, about how to actuallyimplement it. If you have someideas, please contact me and we can
discuss it. I am eager to receiveadditional input.
The rest of this message isprimarily devoted to thanks andcongratulations. On behalf of theSociety, I thank all of you whoattended the recent meeting inPortland and congratulate you on anexcellent meeting. I have attended25 of the last 26 ASP meetings andthe last 22 in a row. I can’tremember a meeting that was better.The science was great, the localarrangements were great, and thesocial program was outstanding.Kris Coleman and the localarrangements committee and LarryWilliams, Peter Judge, and theprogram committee deserve both ourthanks and congratulations. I hopethe success of this meeting willstimulate more members toparticipate more actively in the manyactivities of ASP.
The thanks and congratulationsdon’t end there, however. I want tothank Janette Wallis and theconservation committee for theircontinuing contributions to the
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PORTLAND 2006
Present and PastChairs of the Award
and RecognitionCommittee
Chris & Gabe
Susan SmithONPRC made
us feelwelcome
ONPRC Tour
Evan Zuckerand Ruth
Past & Present ASPExecutive Secretaries
Janette & Toni
Dick Dukelow& Don Lindburg
Melinda Novakis always here
for ASP!
Social Time
Is this another dotconversation?
Karaoke -hidden talents
EThanks for thegreat program
Larry!
Photographs by Jessica Henderson, Toni Ziegler & Roz Almond
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PORTLAND 2006
Poster Session
Silent Auction
Carolyn Crocketttalks about
temperament
Genetics &Physiology
Alison Bennett
Wine TastingOregon style!
Sue & Chrisannounce the studentpresentation winners
F
Karen Bales leads a panel discussionon oxytocin and prolactin
Linda Brenttalks about social
challenge
Music anddancing - an ASP
favorite
The Banquet washeld at the
Portland WorldTrade Center
Kris Colemanhosted ASP
Photographs by Jessica Henderson, Toni Ziegler & Roz Almond
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DISTINGUISHEDPRIMATOLOGISTAWARD GOES TO
DUANE RUMBAUGH!
Duane Rumbaugh is a pioneerin comparative psychology andthe study of primate learning,intelligence and language. ASPwould like to honor Duane forhis many accomplishments.
CONGRATULATIONSDUANE!
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD WINNERS FOR 2005• Steffen Foerster – Competitive Regimes, Social Behavior, and Stress Physiology of Mitis guenons. – $1500
• Leslie Seltzer – Response of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) to Positive and Negative Social Stimuli, as Measured by a Novel Urinary Assay for Oxytocin – $1500
• Julienne Rutherford– Litter Size Effects on Placental Microstructure and Function in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) – $1479
• Tamaini Snaith – Food Competition and Ecological Determinants of Group Size and Biomass in Red Colobus – $1500
• Kevin Potts – Comparative Ecology of Two Chimpanzee Communities in Kibale National Park, Uganda – $1500
• Amy Pokempner – The Effects of Sex Differences and Seasonality on the Feeding Ecology of Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda
• Julie Teichroeb – Reproductive Strategies, Male-quality, and Group Composition in Colobus vellerosus in Central Ghana – $1500
• Laura Bidner – Predator-Prey Interactions between Leopards (Panthera pardus) and Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) – $1500
• Alison Grand – The Assessment of Anxious Behavior and HPA Axis Function of Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) Exposed to Infant Maternal Maltreatment – $1500
• Monique Fortunato – Conflict Management and Dominance Style in Bonobos – $1500
• Silvana Peker – Relationship among Habitat Fragmentation, Allogrooming Patterns, and EctoparasiteLoads in the Black and Gold Howler Monkey (Alouatta caraya) – $1450
AMAZON.COMTHROUGH THE ASP
WEBSITEOrder through our websiteand the society makesmoney.Our 3rd quarter Amazonreferral fee was $44.50.The total amount ofreferral fees as of the endof the 2nd quarter was$1,585.59 — not bad forfree money!
WISCONSINNATIONAL PRIMATERESEARCH CENTER
LIBRARY RECEIVES GRANTThe Wisconsin National Primate
Research Center (WNPRC) Libraryhas been awarded a five-year, $2.8million grant from the NationalCenter for Research Resources(NCRR), National Institutes ofHealth, titled Coordinated Informa-tion Services for Primate Research.Headed by Library Director CynthiaRobinson, with the support of hertalented staff, Ray Hamel, MattHoffman and Joanne Brown, theWNPRC Library will continue toprovide world-class services andresources promoting rapid sharing ofinformation among the eight NCRR-supported National Primate Re-search Centers and the largercommunity of primatology andbiomedical researchers. For moreinformation about the WNPRC
Library & Information Service visiteither the library’s website at http://library.primate.wisc.edu/ or thePrimate Info Net website at http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/.
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American Society of Primatology Pre-Conference Education WorkshopAll About Primates! A Workshop for K-12 Teachers.
Organizers: Sue Howell, Alpha Genesis, Inc., Diana Gordon, KrisColeman, Oregon National Primate Research Center Date: Tuesday,August 16 (9 to 4) and Wednesday, August 17 (9 to 12).
This workshop represented a joint effort between the ASP, OregonNational Primate Research Center, and the Oregon Zoo. The purpose ofthe workshop was to provide teachers with skills and informationnecessary to incorporate primatology into their current curriculum. Weprovided basic information on primates related to their diversity,geographic distribution, behavior and conservation. We acquaintedteachers with available audiovisual and on-line resources. We providedlesson plans and suggested ways to incorporate primatology into the existing science curricula. The Oregon Zooand Oregon National Primate Research Center also afforded the unique opportunity for active learning about thebehavior of primates and teachers will receive hands-on training in behavioral observation, data collection methods,
and analysis. ASP members were on hand throughout to share their knowledge,experience, and enthusiasm. While the workshop is geared to K-12 teachers,undergraduate and graduate students in primatology as well as youngprofessionals attended and it was indeed a valuable workshop.
We wish to thank our wonderful sponsors including Harlan Teklab,University of Oregon, and the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Inaddition, we had great a great support team of local organizers and presentersincluding Diana Gordon, Kris Coleman, Nicole Chambers, and Jen McMillan.At the Oregon Zoo, Rex Ettlin, the Oregon Zoo Education Program Directorprovided a wonderful hands on presentation and, as a special treat, Dave
Thomas and Mike Jordon did a great ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Oregon Zoo primate facilities. The Director ofthe Oregon National Primate Research Center, Susan Smith, provided a wonderful welcome for us all. We certainlycould not have done it without the continued support of our ASP Education Committee and presenters includingDiana Gordon, Kris Coleman, Karen Hambright, Melanie Schwandt, Matt Hoffman, Elaine Videan, Corina Ross,Stephanie Braccini, Ben Jaffe, and Judi Corr. Sue
Society and congratulate all thosewho were awarded conservationsmall grants and subscriptionawards by the committee. In asimilar vein, Karen Bales, LynnFairbanks, and the Research andDevelopment Committee reviewed34 high-quality grants and were ableto reach consensus and providefunding for the top 11. Thanks to thecommittee and congratulations to theawardees. Sue Howell and theEducation Committee also deserveour thanks for organizing a teacher’sworkshop and for evaluatingnumerous paper and posterpresentations. As usual, pleasecontinue your efforts in support ofprimates (human and non-human) andprimatology. We are really privilegedto be able to do the work that we do.
Continued from Page 1 JAN MOOR-JANKOWSKI IS DEAD AT 81;USED CHIMPS, KINDLY, IN SCIENCE
By DOUGLAS MARTIN, New York Times, September 3, 2005, excerpts
Jan Moor-Jankowski, a scientist known forgroundbreaking immunology work with chimpan-zees and whose life was defined by many impas-sioned battles, from fighting Nazis in his nativePoland to defending press freedoms to exposinganimal abuse, died on Aug. 27 at his home inManhattan. He was 81. Dr. Moor-Jankowski,working mainly at a New York University labora-tory, was a pioneer in using chimpanzees and otherprimates for medical research, and his accomplish-
ments included helping develop the first hepatitis B vaccine, conceiv-ing techniques to freeze blood for storage, and carrying out pregnancystudies that drew the attention of drug companies worldwide. He waselected to the French Academy of Medicine in 1995, succeeding LinusPauling, who had died a year earlier, as the only American member.Dr. Moor-Jankowski was also founder and editor of The Journal ofMedical Primatology.
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RUPPENTHAL, GERALD C.
Gerald C. Ruppenthal, age 65,passed away on Saturday, July 30,2005, at his home. He was born onMay 24, 1940, in Sheboygan,Wisconsin the son of Herman andNorma (Stolzenberg) Ruppenthal.Gerry was the world’s leadingexpert on raising newborn andinfant monkeys under nurseryconditions. He was especially notedfor developing procedures to saveand raise newborn animals that wereat risk for medical or behavioralproblems due to low birth weight,pre-maturity, or abuse by theirmother or her social group mem-bers. These credentials earned himthe Senior Research Award forBiology and Conservation from theAmerican Society of Primatologistsin 1991. The award is given forsignificant contributions to researchsupporting knowledge of impor-tance to primatology and to the lifeand well-being of primates. Gerrywas also noted as a dedicatedteacher of monkey care and behav-ior. He trained hundreds of studentsand professional researchers tohandle, care for, and study monkeyswhile he was the head of the InfantPrimate Research Laboratory at theUniversity of Washington from 1971until 2001. He published numerousarticles and a book that is still thestandard reference on nursery careof non-human primates. Addition-ally he remained a consultant to theNational Institute of Health until hispassing. “Gerry will be sadly missedby all those that knew him bothprofessionally and personally.” F
PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPORT FOR THEPORTLAND ASP MEETING
I would like to express my gratitude to the members of the programcommittee and my co-chair Peter Judge for their excellent work inputting together a great meeting in Portland. We had 225 oralpresentations and posters included among the 9 contributed papersessions, 6 symposia, 2 poster sessions, and 2 workshops. The sixsymposia were the most in ASP meeting history and are due to the hardwork of the organizers. In addition, there were two pre-meeting events,a teacher’s workshop and symposium in honor of Dr Robert Brenner, aswell as a post-meeting training workshop sponsored by Noldus. GeneSackett and Don Lindburg gave featured talks as winners of the ASPDistinguished Primatologists Award. John Capitanio and Bill Hopkinsgave wonderful presentations as featured speakers. Lastly, I would liketo thank the many people who volunteered to moderate the sessions.That is a sometimes forgotten task, but without their efforts and time, themeetings could not come off as smoothly as they do.
Committee Members Session Moderators Symposium Organizers
Peter Judge Maria Boccia Karen Bales
Allyson Bennett Carola Borries Joe Erwin
Alan Brady Hannah Buchanan-Smith Lynne Miller
Karin Enstam John Ely Lindsay Murray
Babette Fontenot Clara Jones Jeff Rogers
Rienhold Hutz Lisa Jones-Engle Janette Wallis
Matt Kessler Michael Owren
Mary Knezevich Erin Riley
Katherine Mackinnon Ann Zeller
Larry Mai
Tara Stoinski
Jim Weed
ASP 2006– SAN ANTONIO, TX, AUGUST 16-19
Next year the annual meeting will be in San Antonio, sponsored by theSouthwest National Primate Research Center. We have already hadseveral ideas presented for special sessions and symposia. We need yourideas to make the quality of the meeting as high as possible. If youknow someone who would be an interesting speaker please email me([email protected]). If you have an idea for a symposium orworkshop, please email me. If you have an idea on the organization ofthe meeting, email me. The Program committee needs your help ininsuring that the meetings are meaningful to you.
Tentative deadline dates are; 1) December 5, 2005 – notify programchair of intent to offer a symposium or workshop; 2)–January 9, 2006 –Symposia and Workshop abstracts with confirmed list of participants dueto program chair; and 3) February 6, 2006 – all final abstracts are duefor symposia, oral, and poster presenters. These dates may changeslightly so please keep an eye on the society website for information.Also, look for our new set of guidelines for writing an abstract thatshould be available before the end of November.
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Parent-offspring conflict theory(POC) posits that offspring maximizefitness by demanding more parentalinvestment (PI) than parents arepredicted to allocate based on geneticrelatedness (Trivers 1974). Conflictis predicted over additional care atany given time or the total duration ofcare. Understanding POC requiresempirical studies that demonstrate theexistence of conflict between parentsand offspring as well as benefits tooffspring at the expense of parents.My dissertation research willdetermine whether parents oroffspring have control over resourceallocation based on predictions ofparent-offspring conflict theory usingwild golden lion tamarins(Leontopithecus rosalia, GLTs).Specifically, I will determine howGLTs allocate resources based onoffspring sex, how that investmentaffects caregiver body mass andactivity budgets as well as infantgrowth, and whether infants canincrease the quantity of PI usingconspicuous vocal signals. Myresearch uses multiple developmentalstages of infants as well as fitnesscomponents of both infants and adultssimultaneously to provide empiricalevidence of POC.
Routine semiannual capture ofanimals began in 1983 with animalsbeing anesthetized, weighed,measured, and dye marked for fieldidentification. At least one individualwas fitted with a radio transmitter fortracking purposes. My initial fieldseason at Poço das Antas BiologicalReserve, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazilbegan in July 2004 and ended inJanuary 2005. Behavioral data werecollected using focal observations of10 min. duration conducted every 20min throughout the field season.Prior to birth of infants, I collectedbehavioral information such asforaging and grooming on 8 groups ofhabituated tamarins (n = 35). Thesebehaviors were collected on allindividuals capable of providing careto infants (e.g. caregivers) since GLTgroups typically contain onereproductive female, one or twounrelated adult males, and offspringof various ages that all participate ininfant care. This information is being
ASP Small Research Grant Report:PARENT-OFFSPRING CONFLICT IN WILD GOLDEN LION TAMARINS
Jennifer Siani - Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, University of Maryland, Jim Dietz Advisor
used to determine activity budgetswhen infants are not present tocompare to activity budgets wheninfants are present. Once infantswere present, I also quantified timeon the nipple, carrying transfersand solid food transferscontinuously in addition to thepreviously mentioned behavioraldata until my departure fromBrazil. Additionally, I quantifiedcaregiver initiated care, caregiverrejections and infant initiated care.Thirteen infants were born intohabituated groups in the studypopulation. Of those infants, twodied within the first week of lifewhile another infant disappeared at9 weeks of age. The loss ofinfants and turnover of individualswithin groups reduced my samplesize to 6 groups and 23 caregivers.
As soon as possible after birth, Iweighed, sexed, and markedinfants for identification bytrapping them while on the motherwithout chemical immobilizationin the field. All infant captureswere performed with the assistanceof Andreia Martins, the fieldcoordinator of the GLTreintroduction project. I collectedfurther weights in the forestweekly without trapping using atechnique developed by Dr. KarenBales consisting of a baitedelectronic scale. Weights fromvery young infants were collectedby weighing them on a caregiverand then weighing the samemonkey without the infants. Icollected weights for 32 caregiversover the course of 17 weeksbeginning prior to the birth of any
infants in the study population toestimate relative physical conditionthroughout the period of infantdependence.
To assess whether infants can solicitincreased levels of care usingconspicuous vocal signals, Irecorded the location of emittedcalls, the frequency of calls, andparental responses to infantvocalizations while continuing toquantify measures of parentalinvestment. I also recorded infantvocalizations using a Sony TCM-3000 analog tape deck and aSennheiser directional microphone.I then digitized the vocalizationsusing Raven v1.2 sound analysissoftware (Cornell Lab ofOrnithology). Though challenging, Iwas able to record from all infantsperiodically throughout infancy. Iattempted playback experimentsunder three behavioral conditions;while caregivers were foraging,locomoting and resting in order tofine-tune my methodology.
I will return to Brazil in August of2005 and again in August of 2006 tocontinue data collection. For theupcoming field season, I would liketo increase the number ofvocalizations recorded as well asrecord calls on a more consistentbasis. I will also begin playbackexperiments on a regular basis withall habituated groups containinginfants.Trivers, R.L. 1974. Parent-Offspringconflict. American Zoologist. 14:249-264.
ASSESSING LOCAL EXTINCTION RISK IN HOWLER MONKEYS GROUPS(ALOUATTA PALLIATA MEXICANA)
IN A HIGHLY FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE IN LOS TUXTLAS, VERACRUZ
Luis A. Escobedo-Morales1, ASPConservation Small Grant 2003, andSalvador Mandujano2
1División de Posgrado, Instituto deEcología, AC. Km 2.5 Carretera Antiguaa Coatepec, Congregación El Haya No.351, Xalapa, Veracruz 91070.E-mail, [email protected],[email protected] de Biodiversidad yEcología Animal, Instituto de Ecología,AC. Km 2.5 Carretera Antigua aCoatepec, Congregación El Haya No.351, Xalapa, Veracruz 91070.E-mail, [email protected]
Habitat loss and forestfragmentation are two of the mostimportant factors that are drivingprimate populations to extinction(Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 2000). As aresult, conservation of many primatespecies depends of both the capacityof fragmented forests to supportthese populations and the primateplasticity to response to habitat lossand fragmentation (Marsh, 2003).Although there have been manystudies on primates that inhabitfragments, few have addressed theproblem of primate populationconservation from a metapopulationperspective (v.gr., Swart and Lawes,1996; Chapman et al., 2003).
Since early 2001 we started astudy in a highly altered landscape insouthern Los Tuxtlas, México,including aspects as landscapeanalysis (Rodríguez-Toledo et al.2003, Palacios-Silva and Mandujanoin press), movements, group size anddensities of howler and spidermonkeys (Mandujano et al. inpress), and fragment quality(Arroyo-Rodriguez and Mandujano2003).
The goal of the present projectwas to answer the followingquestion: If our goal is to increasethe viability of the howler monkeymetapopulation in a highly alteredlandscape, what must be increased,the area of remaining habitatfragments, the connections amongthem, or both? To answer thisquestion, we analyzed the effect ofpatch size and landscapeconnectivity in metapopulationprobability of extinction.
Our study was developed in alandscape consisting of approxi-mately 5,000 ha, but only 547 ha(11%) represent tropical rain andsecondary forests habitat forprimates (Fig. 1). The matrixsurrounding forest fragments wasmade up principally of corn cropsand pastures. In total, there are 92fragments, but 81% are less than 5ha, 8% exceeded 10 ha, and thelargest cover 76 ha. Landscapeconnectivy was estimated less than30%.
Fieldwork was developed fromJanuary 2001 to May 2004. Datafrom fieldwork was used toconstruct a stage-based matrix(Caswell, 1989). The RAMASMetapop software (Akçakaya 2002)was used to simulate deterministic
and stochastic factors affectinghowler monkeys group dynamics ina interval of 30 years. Demographicand environmental stochasticity,catastrophes and dense-dependenceeffects in vital rates and dispersalwere considered in the model.Nine scenarios were simulatedresulting from a combination ofthree habitat change conditions foroccupied fragments and threeconnectivity levels. In terms ofchanges in habitat surface, the threetrends were as follow: 1) constanthabitat loss at an annual rate of 4%of fragment surface (Dirzo andGarcía 1992), 2) arresteddeforestation, and 3) fragmentregeneration or reforestation at anannual rate of 4%. The connectivitylevels considered were 1) totalisolation among populations, 2) alandscape with poor fragmentconnectivity, where movementsoccur mainly crossing the matrix,and 3) a landscape with increasedconnections among fragmentsthrough riparian corridors with anaproximate length of 15 km.
We counted a total of 74individuals until May 2004, andhowler monkeys occupied 18 of the92 forest fragments (19%). Wefound the lowest probabilities ofextinction (<0.1%) for a 30-year
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lower extinction risk to thoseobtained in the simulations.Howler monkeys are capable ofrecolonizing forested areas due totheir high intrinsic growth rate andfast life history development(Fedigan and Jack 2001). Thisfeature suggests a positive scene ifhabitat protection is effective.Relatively large fragments are apriority for their protection. Buthowlers inhabiting small fragmentswith a high extinction risk couldneed drastic strategies such astranslocation to larger fragments.
Active manipulation of thismetapopulation, particularlyhabitat restoration, disease control,translocation, as well monitoringof the management consequences
interval in the scenarios where thefragment area are maintained orrecovered. In contrast, when wesimulated a constant habitat loss,extinction risk increases significativelyto 36% (Fig. 2). There was a tendencyto diminish the probability of extinctionof the metapopulation when dispersalrate between fragments increases, andthis is more evident in the scenarioswith no change in fragments area. Inthose scenarios, probability to be undera threshold of 74 individuals, the actualmetapopulation size, increases inscenarios simulating total isolation ordispersal through the matrix (> 49%),compared with a 27% probabilityobserved when we simulated theimplementation of riparian corridors(Fig. 2).
Conservation Continued Our results suggest that anadequate strategy for thismetapopulation is to avoid thefragment area loss and toencourage programs enhancing thehabitat recovery. The conservationof the actual area and the impulseof strategies leading to an increaseof the remnant habitat patches areprioritary for the persistence of thismetapopulation. The landscapereconnection must be considered asa medium to long-term strategy.The creation of a riparian corridorsnet larger than the 15 km simulatedin this study probable results in
Figure 2. - Quasi-extinction risk curve of themetapopulation to the end of the 30-yearinterval. Squares, scenarios simulating a 4%annual increase in fragments area; circles,scenarios simulating maintaining actualfragments area; triangles, scenarios simulatinga 4% annual decrease in fragments area. Blackcolour, scenarios simulating dispersal throughriparian corridors; grey colour, scenariossimulating dispersal through the matrix; whitecolour, scenarios simulating total isolation.
Howler monkeys (adult male and adultfemale)
Figure 1. - Occupied fragments by howlermonkeys in Southern Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz,Mexico (Map, R. Palacios-Silva).
in population trends and genetics,will provide important data tovalidate or improve the simulationmodel and important issues inprimate conservation in fragmentedlandscapes.Acknowlegments
This research was supported bythe ASP (Conservation SmallGrant). Mateo-Gutiérrez family, F.García-Orduña and D. Canalesprovided facilities for the field-work. We thank A. Cuarón, M.Equihua, A. Estrada, and J. C.Serio-Silva for comments andsuggestions, and R. Palacios-Silvafor help with maps and GISsoftware. The National Council onScience and Technology(CONACYT) granted researchscholarships for the first author,and the Department of Biodiversityand Animal Ecology, Instituto deEcología, A. C. provided thesupport necessary for the comple-tion of this research. PrimateConservation, Inc. provided a smallgrant to the first author.
Dear ASP Colleagues andfriends:
On behalf of Mexican Society ofPrimatologists, we wished to let youknow our solidarity feelings with allpeople that were affected as aconsequence of terrible hurricaneevents that happened in the states ofAlabama, Mississippi andmainly in Louisiana. Particularly wewished to express our preoccupationand good desires in thereconstruction of the incredible cityof New Orleans. In this amazing citywas held during 1999 theunforgettable ASP meeting byTulane University and TulanePrimate Center. Really, all membersof our Mexican PrimatologicalSociety we are very sad about theterrible images and news that wehave seen after the hurricane.
You can be sure that we aresending to all ASP members oursincere solidarity feelings. Receiveour very best wishes and warmestregards.
Sincerely,Dr. Juan Carlos Serio SilvaPresidentMexican Society of Primatologistswww.amp-ac.org.mx
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2006 CALL FOR CONSERVATION SMALL GRANT APPLICATIONSNOTE: This year, the grant proposal deadline is early again: 16 JANUARY 2006.
The ASP Conservation Committee would like to solicit grant proposals for the ASP ConservationSmall Grants competition of 2006. These grants (up to $1,500) are specifically designed to helpfund conservation research or related projects, including conservation education. ASP membersworking in habitat countries are especially urged to apply or to help someone from a habitatcountry submit a meaningful project which can be a portion of a larger effort. Grant applicationguidelines may be obtained by contacting the ASP Conservation Committee Chair at the addressbelow or at the ASP web site. (NOTE: The Committee is making some minor changes to theapplication process for this year, so please wait until late October to contact the Chair.Alternatively, please consult the ASP web site in late October for full details).
Deadline for Conservation Small Grants: JANUARY 16th , 2006.The ASP Conservation Committee will be making the Conservation Small Grant awards earlyagain this year. This decision was made to better facilitate our getting conservation grant moneyto the winners in time for the “summer” months - when many of these projects get underway. The2006 deadline for submission of grant proposals is 16th January, 2006. Materials may besubmitted online at the ASP web site (www.asp.org), beginning in early December, or sent as anemail attachment to the Committee Chair. Grants will be announced in late March. Please directany questions to: Dr. Janette Wallis, Chair, ASP Conservation Committee, ABTI-AmericanUniversity of Nigeria; [email protected] or [email protected].
Announcing a New Bookin the Series!
The American Society of Primatologists is pleased to announcethe publication of the latest volume in our book series, SpecialTopics in Primatology. The book, the fourth in the series, isentitled Commensalism and Conflict: The Human-PrimateInterface and was edited by James D. Paterson and Janette Wallis.This new volume provides a comprehensive and up to date lookat the close relationship we have with nonhuman primates and issure to make an important contribution to the literature in human-wildlife conflict.
All ASP members are encouraged to support the Society’spublishing efforts by buying each volume and making sure yourinstitution’s library has a copy. You may order it online at: http://www.asp.org/research/aspbook/Volume4.html - or see the orderform included in this issue of the ASP Bulletin.
If you would like to learn more about the book series, visit theweb site – or contact the Series Editor, Janette Wallis([email protected]).
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ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OFTHE INTERNET PRIMATE AGING DATABASE
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iPAD provides an invaluable resource for veterinarians, primate researchers, and the general public and hasalready resulted in several papers published in peer-reviewed journals. With more than 500,000 data pointsfrom 17 different species at 11 research facilities, registered iPAD users can view normative values of bloodchemistry, hematology, and other biomarkers of aging such as body weight. Data points are from routinescreening of healthy animals at regular intervals over their lifetimes. In addition to being able to view meansand standard deviations, users can access individual data points to statistically and graphically examine at thespecies-, biomarker-, or site-specific level for their particular research needs and are able to export andmanipulate data at will.
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Dear Colleagues:I have a number of duplicate backissues of primate journals that I wouldlike to place the hands of youngprimatologists who would find themuseful. Of course, now that AJP isavailable electronically all the way backto Vol 1, No 1, the information isavailable, but some like to have a hardcopy on hand. I had intended to bringmore of these to give to the silentauction at the ASP meeting, but in theend decided not to carry that much. TheAJP Vol 1, No 1, that I donated brought$25, so it is clear that these are valuedby some people.Some examples: IJP Vol 1, Nos 1-4 AJP Vol 1, Nos 1-4 AJP Vol 2, Nos 1-4 AJP Vol 3, Nos 1-4 (all bound together) AJP Vol 4, Nos 1-4And many other issues of AJP andissues of some other journals thatare surplus to my needs. Mainly I needto cover the costs of sending them.Please contact me at:[email protected] you well, Joseph M. Erwin,Ph.D., Independent Consultant andExecutive Director, Foundation forComparative & Conservation Biology4139 Gem Bridge RoadNeedmore, Pennsylvania 17238
PLANET OF THE RETIRED APESBy CHARLES SIEBERT
This past spring, in a secluded patch of forest in northwest Louisiana’sCaddo Parish, a singularly bizarre bit of evolution unfolded. There, amid thesun-dappled pines and flitting birds, a pair of 40-something chimpanzeesnamed Rita and Teresa — lifetime research subjects who were originallytaken from Africa for use in NASA’s space program — became Americanpioneers of a whole other sort: the first beneficiaries of an inspired piece ofretirement legislation passed by the United States government. Under thewatchful eyes of animal behaviorists, veterinarians, enrichment specialistsand daily caretakers, Rita and Teresa checked in on the afternoon of April 4at the recently opened Chimp Haven, the first federally financed, taxpayer-supported retirement home for chimpanzees.
Ultimately, 260 chimpanzees at Save the Chimps, virtually all of thembred in captivity and used for research, will be set free on one of a dozenthree-acre islands on the sanctuary grounds.
Photographed and retouched by Zachary Scott for The New York TimesAlec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times
ASP 29th Annual MeetingAugust 16-19, 2006
San Antonio, TX
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ASP MEETINGSMINUTES FROM THE ASP EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE MEETING - 2005President Steve Schapiro at theAnnual Meeting of the AmericanSociety of Primatologists,Portland Oregon, called theExecutive Committee meeting toorder at 5:00 p.m. on August 18,2005. Attending: Steve Schapiro,Jeff French, Suzette Tardif, ToniZiegler, Evan Zucker, JanetteWallis, Randy Kyes, Chris Abee,Linda Fairbanks, Karen Bales,Larry Williams, Linda Fedigan,Sue Howell.
Steve opened the meeting bythanking the committee chairs andtheir members for their work thisweek. He then went on to explainthe meaning of the dots. To initiateconversations between people thatwould normally not interact, Steveand Kris Colman arranged to havethe attendees of the meetings to bedivided into “green dot name tags”and “blue dot name tags”. Dotcolors indicated which night toattend a post poster session social.Steve asked the Committee Chairsto submit their report to the ASPBoard of Directors. Steve stated thathe had achieved his goal of having astudent representative on eachcommittee. The first order ofbusiness was to approve the minutesfrom the Executive Committee,Board of Directors, and businessmeeting from June 10, 2004 as put
in the ASP bulletin. The minuteswere approved.
Standing Committee Chairs gavethe following reports: ProgramCommittee Report - LarryWilliams reported that 231 abstractswere submitted for the Portlandmeetings and 225 accepted. Fiveabstracts had been withdrawn priorto the meetings. The committee hada recommendation that the AbstractAuthor Instructions be rewritten andavailable earlier. The committeealso suggested revising thesymposia instructions to include thesymposium overview with a list ofparticipants at the time ofsubmission. Several board memberssuggested that the programcommittee were emphasizing toomuch detail for the abstracts andsuggested eliminating the emphasison statistics. Larry considered thisrecommendation that the reviewswere too critical. He will discuss theabstract criteria with the committeemembers. The committeerecommended having a founder’ssymposium for featured speakersfrom the original meetings. Thiswould provide an insight on whereASP has been and where it is going.
American Journal ofPrimatology Editor - LindaFedigan reported that the number ofmanuscript submissions to thejournal had increased. Turn around
time for providing decisions was amean of 60 days (range = 7 to 144days). Reviewers wereacknowledged for their efforts toreview quickly. Decisions on 187manuscripts yielded 23% acceptwith revisions, 20% rejections, 55%resubmissions and 2% pending. Theaverage time from submission topublication is six months. Theimpact factor has increased in thelast year to 1.8 and we are 14 out of111 journals in our area. AJP has thehighest impact factor of the primatejournals! The journal now has abacklog built up and it takes onaverage 6 months from submissionto publication. An authorsatisfaction survey for AJP wasimplemented by Wiley in May andJune: 23 people responded withoutstanding positive responses. Onthe behalf of the Society, SteveSchapiro thanked Linda for herefforts. Wiley is doing a great job.AJP is now online to the beginningvolume and at no cost to the Society.Joe Ingram, our Wileyrepresentative, has initiated the setup of early view to see your articleprior to the publication date. EvanZucker indicated that there would bea cost increase of $5 for thesubscription to AJP both studentsand full members.
Local Arrangements: KrisColeman reported that all was going
John Capitaniogave the PastPresident'sAddress: ANINDIVIDUALDIFFERENCESAPPROACHTOPRIMATOLOGYGene Sackett gave a Distinguished
Primatologists Award Address:ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE
Bill Hopkinsgave theKeynoteAddress:LEFT,RIGHT,HAND ANDBRAIN:SPECIALIZA-
TION IN CHIMPANZEES
SPECIAL TALKS GIVEN AT MEETINGSTECHNOLOGY (ART):NEW METHODS FORTHE EXPERIMENTALSTUDY OF PRIMATEGROWTH, BEHAVIOR,AND GENETICS
Don Lindburg gave aDistinguishedPrimatologists AwardAddress:PRIMATES AND
PANDAS: COMMON THREADS OFSCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
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ASP MEETINGSannounced that the society needsmore members to initiatenominations for our awards. Thecommittee recommended that weexpand the Announcement of thewebsite call for each award andrecognize awardees from the past onthe website. There were fewnominations received this year butthese were outstanding. Thecommittee recommended the awardfor Distinguished Primatologist goto Duane Rumbaugh this year forhis outstanding contributions to thefield of primatology. The committeerecommended naming awards afterASP members who have made greatcontributions to primatology. Thisrecommendation was tabled for now.The committee recommendednaming an award in memory ofGerald Ruppenthal. It wasdecided that the Student TravelAward to ASP could be named afterhim. The society will attempt toobtain $5,000 for the fund with themoney coming from donations.Chris asked that all attending theExecutive Committee Meeting presscolleagues to make nominations forthe other awards. We are honoringthe society every time we give oneof these awards.Conservation Committee: JanetteWallis (chair). Janette announcedthat the timing of the ending of thesilent auction would change to 12:45on Saturday. The changing of theConservation Grants deadline to Jan15th was very successful. Theannouncement of awardees occurredin April so that money could bedistributed prior to the summer fieldseason. The committee received 40proposals and awarded 10.The committee suggested having avirtual committee meeting formaking the decisions on awards fornext year. It was suggested that theboth the Conservation committeeand the Research & Developmentcommittee create frequently askedquestion for the website to assistthose writing proposals. Janettestated that the: 1st annual
symposium that highlightsprojects funded by ASP was held atthe meetings and appeared to be asuccess. AJP subscription awards: 4were approved for this year. TheBushmeat Crisis Task Force ofwhich Janette is the ASPrepresentative has now expandedfrom Africa into Asia and LatinAmerica. ASP voted to continuesupporting BCTF. The committeeplans to rework the Conservationwebsite for ASP and add a list ofpast awardees. The committeesuggested a fundraising idea ofproducing a deck of playing cardswith primates on them for sell atzoos and for ASP members.
Publications committee: RandyKyes (chair), other committeemembers: Melinda Novak, JoeBielitzki, Katherine Hinde, CorrineLutz, Anne Savage, Juan CarlosSerio Silva; ex-officio members:John Capitanio, Linda Fedigan,Janette Wallis, Toni Ziegler. Randyindicated that Toni Ziegler wasactively looking for additionaladvertising to increase income forthe ASP bulletin. One primateproducts company, Cell Sciences, iscurrently advertising in the ASPbulletin.The committee expressed theirappreciation to Linda Fedigan forher outstanding work on thesociety’s journal – American Journalof Primatology.John Capitanio reported on thesummary of web page usage.Improvements, upgrades and newfeatures: Installation of additional512 mb RAM to server (donated),Installation of new software andconversion of database from Accessto SQL Server, Improved grantsubmission process, Documentationfor Conference organizers on how touse conference web tools, Hostingof IPS conference registration/abstract submission, ConferenceMessage Board. Online registrationwas close to 90%. And abstractsubmission was almost 100% online.John indicated that after the home
well with the execution of themeeting. Many students hadvolunteered to help at ASP. Therewas over $10,000 in donations and19 vendors at the meetings. Over320 people registered, including onsite registrants. Security was a keyissue due to a small protest duringthe meetings. Steve Schapirothanked Kris for the society for anoutstanding job on the arrangement.
Education Committee: SueHowell, chair, reported 11 people onthe committee who attended thecommittee meeting. The educationworkshop spent the first day at thePortland Zoo and the second day atthe Oregon Primate Center. HarlanTech helped sponsor the workshopat the zoo and the Oregon NationalPrimate Research Center sponsoredthe second day. Twenty-six peopleattended the workshop and it was ahuge success. An upcomingworkshop is planned for teachingfield school courses. This year therewere more student papers thannormal. It took 8 – 10 judges perindividual to judge the competitionthis year. The length of time it takesstudents to get their prize wasdiscussed. Next year a workshop onCareers in Primatology will beorganized. The committee wouldlike winners of the studentcompetition to submit articles basedon their talks and posters to AJP.The current amount presented to thewinners of the posters and talks are$200 and $50 for honorablemention. The amount provided forstudent travel to this meeting fromONRPC was $7500. Sue Howellwill establish a minority initiativesoon. The plan would use MorganIsland/Yemassee as a site fortraining minority students inprimatology/life sciences. Moreinformation on this will be availablenext year..
Awards and Recognitioncommittee: Chris Abee (chair),other committee members attending:Karena Morales, Russ Tuttle, MattKessler, Dee Higgley. Chris
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the use of Watts fund to pay fortravel for Mexican students to attendASP in San Antonio. Approved (5 -$1,000 awards). The committeerecommended moving the websiteserver from UC - Davis to acompany. It would cost around$36.00/month. Nancy Capitanio hadsuggested this. Approved to movethe server to a company.President Steve Schaprio remindedthe members of the ExecutiveCommittee that IPS is in Uganda,June 25th – 30th 2007.The deadline for registration isSeptember 1, 2005. He urged ASPmembers to go to this meeting. IPSis using the ASP CMT conferencetechnology to make it go smoothly.Steve gave special thanks to ourwebmaster, Nancy Capitano.We finished in 2 hrs and 6 minutes.Jeff French moved that we shouldadjorn and Janette Wallis secondedthe motion.
MINUTES FROMTHE ASP BOARDOF DIRECTORSMEETING - 2005
The Board of Directors (BOD)meeting was called to order at 5:45pm August 19, 2005 by PresidentSteve Schapiro at the 28th annunalmeeting of the American Society ofPrimatologists, Portland, Oregon.Attending: Steve Schapiro, JeffFrench, Suzette Tardif, Evan Zuckerand Toni Ziegler. Steve called forthe approval of previous minutesfrom the last Board of Directors’Meeting in Madison, 2004 asreported in the ASP bulletin. Theminutes were approved. Thefollowing recommendations weremade.Recommendation: Determine themeeting sites for future ASP: 2007:(June) Still under review. 2008:Paul Houghton, Naples Florida:Primate Products, Panther TractsLearning Center & local university.
Action: Florida was approved for2008.Recommendation: Explorealternatives for publishing the ASPbook series by seeking potentialcommercial publishers, universitypresses, and other potentialpublishers within 6 weeks. Action:The BOD is giving the Membershipand Finance Committee six weeks tocome up with an alternative.Aotis trivigatis Bromback funds($10,000): Announcement ofavailability of fundsRecommendation: Provide input tothe Research and Developmentcommittee’s need to update the website. Action: Both the Research andDevelopment and the ConservationCommittees will update the website.Recommendation: A Nominationscommittee be set up to elect ournew: Secretary, Treasurer, PresidentElect. Action: Jeff Frenchvolunteered for this committee aspast president.Recommendation: The award forDistinguished Primatologist go toDuane Rumbaugh this year for hisoutstanding contributions to the fieldof primatology. Action: approved.Recommendation: Naming anaward in memory of GeraldRuppenthal. Action: It was decidedthat the Student Travel Award toASP could be named after him.Recommendation: The use of Wattsfund to pay for travel for Mexicanstudents to attend ASP in SanAntonio. Action: Approved (5 -$1,000 awards).Recommendation: Raise moniesfrom companies for field scientiststo distribute near their sites inprimate source countries who needvalued supplies. Increase the valueto the primatologists who workthere. Action: Permission to persuethis idea.Steve thanked the BOD members.Steve made a request to the society’shistorian – website update on ourforefathers.Meeting adjorned at 7:54
page, the next most frequently hitpages are our ASP abstracts fromour past four conferences,suggesting that our website is usedheavily for viewing the society’sscientific offerings. It wassuggested that we implement asearch engine for abstracts on ASPwebsite. Updating “frequentlyasked questions” was suggestedsince people are hitting ourinformation sites about the use ofprimates in research. On-linerenewals are about 50% for the pastseven years. For 2005, ASP mailsout 479 printed copies of theBulletin and 178 members have.chosen to receive only theelectronic version. Onlineregistration for this year’s meetingswas 89%, an increase of 7% overlast year. The ASP book seriesreleased Volume 4 at this meeting.Janette helped Jim Patterson finishthis due to Jim’s illness. Ongoingdiscussion continues on distributionand marketing of the book series.The Publications Committeerecommended to the BOD to seek apublisher for the book series.
Membership and FinanceCommittee: Evan Zucker (chair).The committee members allexpressed willingness to work onmarketing strategies for the ASPbook series and recommended thatthe Membership and FinancingCommittee take over the marketingof the series. Update onmembership: In 2004 there were 652paying members. During the fiscalyear ending May 31 2005 there were588 paying members. Recently, 46more members were signed in andwe have 634 paying members at thetime of the Portland meetings. Onethird of ASP members are studentmembers (~200 members)Financialstatements: Total funds = $203,076for the fiscal year ending May 31,2005 with $75,395 in Cash Assetsand $127,681 in CDs. The 27th
annual meeting of ASP in Madisonmade $8,860 after expenses. Thecommittee proposed
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ASP MEETINGSmarquiritas will flow. No softballwill take place at the 2006 meetingsdue to the heat so a bowlingtournament in dowtown has beensuggested instead. Hope to see youthere.2007- Meeting of ASP, not settledyet. 2008- ASP meeting will takeplace in Naples, Florida hosted byPaul Houghton: Primate Products,Panther Tracts Learning Center & alocal university.Larry Williams: ProgramCommittee had 230 abstractssubmitted with 225 accepted, 5withdrawn. Three concurrentsession occurred including 6symposia and 2 workshops. PeterJudge (co-chair), Allyson Bennett,Alan Brady, Karin Enstam, BabetteFontenot, Rienhold Hutz, MattKessler, Mary Knezevich, katherineMackinnon, Larry Mai, SaraStoinski and Jim Weed all judgedthe student papers and posters.Larry thanked the SessionModerators and SymposiumOrganizers (see Program CommitteeReport for names).Instructions for submitting symposiaand abstracts for the 2006 ASPmeeting will be revised and on thewebsite. There have already beentwo symposia suggested for nextyear.Linda Fedigan - Editor of AmericanJournal of Primatology. The impactfactor (ISI 1.8) increased from lastyear and indicates that we arenumber one in primate journals andAJP ranked 14th in the field ofzoology. The journal has done verywell and has excellent editors:Dorothy Fragaszy, Paul Garber,Michael Huffman, Lynne Isbell,Jean E. Turnquist, Jeffrey Rogersand Suzette D. Tardif. Specialthanks goes to our EditorialAssistant-Mellanie Foster and to thereviewers and those who havesubmitted their excellent work toAJP. During the time between June1, 2004 – May 31, 2005 there were187 new submissions (~1 every 2days, or 15.6 per month. There is a
60 day mean turn-around time fromsubmission to first decision (range =7 to 144 days). For decisions madeon 187 manuscripts: 23% wereaccepted with revisions and 20%were totally rejected. There are twoforthcoming Special Issues of AJP:September 05: Field-based studiesof behavioral endocrinology by K.Strier and T. Ziegler as guest editors.December 05: Recent advances incolor vision research by H.Buchannan-Smith as guest editorIn progress Special Issues:The neglected sense – olfaction inprimate behavior, ecology andevolution with E. Heymann as guesteditor.Disease Risk Analysis with L.Jones-Engel as guest editorEvolution, functional morphology &behavioral ecology of lorisoids withA. Burrows & L. Nash as guesteditors.Wiley has set up “Early View”which will allow members to viewpapers before their publication.Linda thanked all of the people whohave supported this journal. Sheencouraged members to submit newmanuscripts and photographs oftheir primates. She also askedmembers to continue to review forthe journal.Evan Zucker: Membership andFinance CommitteeMembership: For 2004: 674members with 672 as payingmembers. This is an increase of1.2% over last year. At the end ofMay (end of the fiscal year) we weredown by 7% but it is alreadyincreasing. We should be at or abovelast year by the end of the year.Assests at the end of the fiscal year:$203,000. Our monies were downabout $40,0000 this year due togiving more grants this year andgiving the conservations grantsearlier. However, money made fromthis meeting have not been includedyet. We plan to use the Watts fundto bring Mexican primatologiststudents to our next meeting in SanAntonio. A special grant was given
MINUTES FROMTHE ASP
BUSINESSMEETING - 2005
The business meeting was called toorder on Saturday, August 20th at11:35 by President Steve Schapiro atthe Annual Metting of the AmericanSociety of Primatologists, Portland,Oregon. Steve Schapiro welcomedeveryone to the business meeting ofASP and called the meeting to order.Announcements: ASP book series –you can now order the 4th volume,Commensalism and Conflict: TheHuman-Primate Interface, edited byJim Paterson and Janette Wallis,2005 on line at the ASP web site.Wiley has scanned all the volumnesof AJP back to the first and has putthem on line for ASP members.Steve thanked Kris Coleman (LocalArrangement Chair) and hercommittee for a fabulous meeting.Kris Coleman thanked ASPmembers for coming to Portland andhoped everone enjoyed themeetings. Animal protests werekept to a minimun but one wasscheduled for Saturday afternoon.Hotel management helped byproviding alternative exits from thehotel. The ASP Banquet will beheld at the World Trade Center –Salmon and 1st street. Starts at 7pm. Kris indicated that 320members registered with 20 onsiteregistration and new memberships.The meetings were supported withadditional funds from the OregonNational Primate Research Ctr. TheONPRC also provided staff. Krishad 45 volunteers. Thanks to all ofyou and enjoy your time in Portland.Suzette Tardif (ASP Presidentelect) – Issued an invitation to the29th annual meeting on August 16-19in San Antonio Texas, 2006. Themeetings will take place downtownat the Hyatt on the riverwalk andboth the Alamo and the river arewithin view of the hotel (see page 20for this view). It will be hot and the
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ASP MEETINGSapes. The Research & DevelopmentCommittee will be working with theConservation Committee on therevising of the web site for the“frequently asked questions”.Sue Howell: Education Committee.There were 15 members of thiscommittee and 11 attended themeetings. The teachers workshopwas a huge success with a greatturnout. The workshop was run atthe Portland Zoo and at the ONPRC.The participants included bothteachers and graduate students.Support came from Harlan Tech Laband ONPRC. Zoo keepers wereexcellent and gave backstage tours.Plans are in the process for settingup a workshop next year for teachingfield schools in collaboration withLynn Miller. ASP StudentCompetition had 36 entries with 23oral presentations and13 posterpresentations. The winners will beannounced at the banquet. (See page1 of the bulletin). Next year thecommittee plans to organize asymposium on careers inprimatology. There are plans toimpliment the first minority trainingproject in South Carolina.Chris Abee: Awards and recognitionCommittee. Chris thanked GabeLubach for her help in setting up tobe chair. Chris thanked the othermembers of the committee: KarenaMorales, Russ Tuttle, Matt Kessler,Dee Higgley. The committeediscussed two outstanding nomineesfor the Distinguished PrimatologistAward. The award will beannounced at the Banquet. It wasgiven to Duane Rumbaugh. GerryRuppenthal died this year and willbe sorely missed at ASP – in hismemory a student travel award isbeing set up. Donations are beingaccepted for this. The committeereceived no nominations for any of
our other awards. We should honoroutstanding members of our society.Much better to honor livingmembers while they are among us.Think about deserving members.Send your nomination to thecommittee this year. We plan toannounce the award winners on theASP website and past awardees.Steve Schapiro: Presidents ReportWe need more members on theAwards and Recognition Committee.We are planning a FoundersSymposium. This will give youngerASP members an insight on whereASP came from. We would love tohave more ASP members on ourcommittees. Email Steve if you wantto be on a committee. Steverecognized the steller work of ourwebmaster, Nancy Capitanio. Thenext meeting of IPS is June 25-30,2006. There is a deadline of Sept 1st
for abstract submission. ASP makesmoney off the IPS submissionssoftware. The new technology hasimproved IPS and solved previousproblems. There are already 36symposia accepted. Jeff Frenchasked if the deadlines for abstractsubmissions will be extended. Stevesaid no.New Business: Steve reported onthe Blue Dot and Red Dot socials.Blue dots drank 29 bottles of winewhile the Green dots drank 12bottles of wine. Steve thanked allthe people who have volunteeredbut suggested that we need morepeople to help out at meetings. Thesociety is great fun, great scienceand in great locations.Alpha genesis: Pledged $1,000 infunds if the society will match it indonations to conservation at thebanquet tonight.A move to adjorn was made andseconded. The meeting ended at12:25.
The New York Consortium inEvolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)invites you to attend the following
lectures in The New York RegionalPrimatology Colloquium:
All talks will be held at the CUNY
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue(between 35th & 34th streets)NOTE THAT ROOM AND TIME
this year as requested by RandyKyes as an emergency grant to anIndonesian student due to theTsunami.The society has major concerns withthe ASP book series. Volume 1 madea profit, Volume 2 is close tobreaking even, Volume 3 has notmade a profit and Volume 4 has justbeen published. The Membershipand Finance Committee will beactively marketing the books in thenext few weeks. Evan noted thework of Janette Wallis for assistingJim Patterson is the editing of the 4th
volume.Janette Wallis: ConservationCommittee. Janette thanked the 14members of her committee for theirefforts. Conservations grants weregiven out earlier this year and itworked wonderfully having the midJan deadline. This will be thedeadline for this coming year.The web site will be revised withbetter advice for writing theproposals.This was the first ASP sponsoredsymposium for recepients of theawards and it was well attended.This year 4 subscription awardswere given. BMTF (Bush MeatTask Force) will continue to receiveour support and we will be updatingthis portion of the ASP web site.Lynn Fairbanks: Research andDevelopment Committee. (Co-chairis Karen Bales). Lynn reported onthe results of the small grantsawards. There were34 submissions – most of them wereexcellent but only 11 wererecommended for funding. TheBoard of Directors approvedextending the budget for this toinclude the 11th proposal in thefunded category. The grants werewell dispersed between field and labprojects, Old World, New World and
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JOB OPPORTUNITIESMedical Research TechnicianTulane National Primate ResearchCenter. Performs a variety of tasksrelated to behavioral components ofresearch projects involvingnonhuman primates, under thedirection of the PrincipleInvestigator. Assists with the designof data collection procedures.Collects and organizes behavioraland physiological data andmaintains organized records. Assistswith data analysis and preparation ofpresentations and manuscripts. Alsoperforms a variety of tasks related tothe implementation and maintenanceof the environmental enrichmentprogram for nonhuman primates andother laboratory species as directedby the Enrichment ProgramCoordinator. Qualifications:Bachelor’s Degree with abackground in behavioral sciencesand two years of experience inlaboratory animal care. Priorexperience in behavioral researchwith nonhuman primates stronglypreferred. Salary commensuratewith experience. Term ofAppointment: Permanent full-time,contingent of future funding afterfive years. Application Deadline:Until filled. Comments: Apply viamail or fax; despite the hurricane,the Center is fully functional, butapplications submitted via emailmay not be received. ContactInformation: Kate Baker, TulaneNational Primate ResearchCenter,18703 Three Rivers Road,Covington, LA 70433 Telephonenumber: 985-871-6578,Fax number:
Assistant/Associate Professor InPrimate Evoluntary EcologyThe Department of Anthropology atthe University of California, Davisinvites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/AssociateProfessorship (pendingadministrative approval of level) inPrimate Evolutionary Ecology.Applicants must have completed thePh.D. by July 1, 2006.Exceptionally strong candidates atthe beginning ranks of AssociateProfessor (with tenure) will also beconsidered, though preference willbe given to the Assistant level. Thesuccessful applicant will have aclear plan for a continuing programof research that complements thecurrent strengths of the departmentin evolutionary anthropology.Preference is for candidates who arerunning primate field sites, and areinterested in comparative studiesand/or modeling.UC Davis has a tradition ofexcellence in undergraduateteaching, and the Department ofAnthropology has a strong record ofgraduate education. The successfulapplicant must be willing and able toparticipate in both. Teaching dutieswill include the normal load of fourcourses per academic year (quartersystem), undergraduate and graduateadvising, and supervision ofgraduate and undergraduate studentresearch.
Applications must be received byNovember 15, 2005, to be assured ofconsideration in the first round.This position is open until filled.Please send a CV, a narrativestatement of research interests andgoals, a copy of up to threepublications representing yourcurrent research, and the names ande-mail addresses of four referees to:David Glenn Smith, Chair, PrimateEvolutionary Ecology SearchCommittee,Department ofAnthropology, One Shields AvenueUniversity of California, Davis, CA95616
Faculty Position in BiologicalAnthropology
Duke University. The Departmentof Biological Anthropology andAnatomy and the Center for Cogni-tive Neuroscience invite applicationsand nominations for an open rank,tenure-track position to beginAugust 1, 2006. Candidates musthave an established research andpublication record in cognitiveprimatology and the evolution ofcognition. Send vitae and names ofreferences to Chair of the SearchCommittee, Department of Biologi-cal Anthropology and Anatomy,Duke University, Box 90383,Durham NC 27708-0383. Applica-tions received by December 1 willbe guaranteed consideration. DukeUniversity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.For more job listings go to:http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/news/jobs/
VARIES THIS TERMThursday, September 22, 6:30pm
(Room C205), Dr. Andrew Marshall,Harvard University, The populationecology of gibbons and leafmonkeys on Indonesian Borneo.
Thursday, October 20, 7:30pm(Room 4102, Science Center) afterdinner Dr. John Wiens, SUNY StonyBrook, How will the Tree of Life bereconstructed and what can we dowith it?
Thursday, November 17, 7:30pm(Room 4102, Science Center) afterdinner, Dr. Martin Muller, BostonUniversity, yitle to be announcedlater
information for 10/20 and 11/17.The New York Consortium inEvolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)Presents “MONKEYS: OLD ANDNEW” - A symposium focusing onthe evolutionary biology of platyr-rhines and cercopithecoids. October29, 2005, CUNY Graduate Center,New York City.For details please visit: http://www.nycep.org/monkey-symposiumAll with an interest in monkeys arewelcome! All attendees mustregister in advance via the sympo-sium website.
later.Thursday, December 8, 6:30pm
(Room C203), Dr. Patrick Hof,Mount Sinai School of Medicine,title to be announced later.*Dinner with the speaker is open toall each evening. On September 22and December 8, we will leave fordinner after the talk. Because ofscheduling requirements, dinner willprecede the talks on October 20 andNovember 17; details will beannounced with a reminder. Pleasecontact Prof. Roberto Delgado,roberto.delgado@ hunter.cuny.edu ifany questions or to request dinnerinformation for 10/20 and 11/17.
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Out of the Jungle:New lemurs found inMadagascar’s forests
Naila Moreira
The family of the world’s smallest primate
just got a little bigger. U.S. and Malagasy
primatologists have discovered a new
species of mouse lemur, an arboreal, fist-
size animal on the African island of
Madagascar, the home of all lemurs.POCKET PRIMATE. A member of a newly describedspecies of mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara,eyes the world from a zookeeper’s hand. R. Zingg
