Field Study Methods for Primate Locomotor Ecology and Biomechanics

Abstract

The benefit of understanding primate locomotion in detail has potential application for understanding how primates use their habitat: e.g., the forest canopy layers for arboreal primates...Understanding locomotiona has conservation benefits relaitng to how primates adapt to disturbance...Using wild gibbons as a case study, I will provide insights into how laboratory techniques can be brought effectively into long-term field studies and the benefits to conservation that can be achieved.