Canopy

This Canopy issue is a special issue celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the Primate Conservation MSc, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Alumni Interviews
• The effects of structural and feeding enrichments on captive gibbons at a rehabilitation and release centre in India
• The role of sacred groves and community forests in biodiversity conservation: an example from Sierra Leone
• Gibbon responses to tourist density in a semi-free ranging environment
• A brief assessment of Minyak kukang (slow loris oil)
• To what extent does EU and UK legislation protect long-tailed macaques bred in overseas farms but used for experiments in the UK
• The use of ecological niche modelling and GIS to identify suitable reintroduction site locations for gibbons in China
• Assessing the effect of the captive environment on the activity levels of walkthrough housed ring-tailed lemurs
• Investigating the use of northern pig-tailed macaques to harvest coconuts in Thailand
• Effects of captivity on the activity budgets of lar gibbons
• Interview with Dr Alison Cronin, Director of Monkey World

This Canopy issue is a special issue that highlights articles demonstrating applied, on-the-ground conservation research , and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• The importance of cultural factors in people-Macaca fascicularis interactions at tourist sites in South-East Asia
• Using freelisting to evaluate education in South-East Asia
• Movement and socio-ecology of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys
• Grey mouse lemur population and habitat assessment in transitional littoral forest of Madagascar
• Preliminary survey of the primates of the coastal dry forest in West Ecuador
• Studying faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in chimpanzees in Uganda
• Population density of reintroduced Bornean orangutans in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Interview with Dr David Chivers

This Canopy issue is a special issue is dedicated to the theme of the human-primate interface, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• An ethnoprimatological approach to assessing the human-baboon interface in South Africa
• Implications of volunteer tourism on conservation initiatives and community outreach projects
• Tourism or ecotourism in Sierra Leone
• Tourists influence on lemurs’ behaviour in Madagascar
• Primate portrayals in motion pictures

This Canopy issue is a special issue highlighting methods utilising the web as a research tool for primate conservation, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Review on the linkages between great ape conservation and poverty alleviation: current trends and gaps in the literature
• Media effect on pet crazes: slow lorises on web 2.0 sites
• Neotropical primates in protected areas
• Implementing best practice guidelines: a preliminary study on the need for orangutan-specific guidelines for rehabilitation and re-introduction centres in Indonesia
• Culture shock in volunteer tourists
• Familiarity breeds contempt: does the literature on the long-tailed macaque reflect its true value?

This Canopy issue is a special issue on Ethnoprimatology, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Local ecological knowledge about nocturnal animals in Brunei
• The illegal trade of slow lorises in Marmaris, Turkey
• Edge effects and crop raiding study on a lemur community in Southeast Madagascar
• Utilising the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for ecotourism site selection in Java, Indonesia
• Reflections on undertaking cross-disciplinary fieldwork on human-primate interactions in West Africa
• Time budgets, social behaviour and human impacts among green vervet monkeys and western red colobus in The Gambia

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This Canopy issue is a special issue on the behaviour and care of primates within captive facilities, in zoos, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centres, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Public perception of conservation work carried out by zoos
• Interventions to alleviate behavioural pathologies in captive primates
• Tailored enrichment strategies and stereotypic behaviour in captive individually-housed macaques
• Breeding patterns in captive lemur species
• Play behaviours and personality in juvenile Bornean orangutans at an Indonesian rehabilitation centre
• Does the rearing history of common marmosets and black-eared marmosets affect behaviour within captive enclosures?
• Rescue-Enrich-Release: The environmental enrichment program for three species of captive primates at Colobus Conservation, Kenya

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This Canopy issue is a special issue on the studies in the Neotropics, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Modelling Occupancy for the Critically Endangered brown-headed spider monkey in Ecuador
• Behaviour and social networks of rehabilitant mantled howler monkeys
• Tourist-monkey interactions at Iguazü National Park, Argentina
• An assessment of enrichment strategies for sanctuary housed spider monkeys
• Behaviour and ranging patterns of the Endangered and endemic Bolivian titi monkeys
• Preliminary study on the effects of a hunting community on the Peruvian black spider monkey

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This Canopy issue is a special issue on the topic of perceptions of primates and primatological methodologies, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:

• Introduction of cross disciplinary methodologies to traditional conservation education studies
• Audial density survey of yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia
• The effects of provisioning on Chacma Baboons in Botswana
• Local attitudes toward mountain gorilla conservation in Uganda
• Visitor perceptions on primate walk-through enclosures
• Studying human-animal relationships in a zoo environment
• Human wildlife interactions – Primates as pets

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This is a special issue on the topic of habitat fragmentation and it’s relevance to the conservation of primate species:

• Implications for primate conservation in a highly fragmented landscape at Bulindi, Uganda
• Raising awareness about coltan mining, gorilla conservation and influencing zoo visitors to recycle mobile phones
• Habitat corridor utilisation by the gray mouse lemur in south eastern Madagascar
• Infectious disease of veterinary significance throughout the orangutans range
• Landscape configuration influencing the presence of red howler monkeys in Colombia
• The effects of habitat alteration and fragmentation on Yucatan black howler monkey vocalizations in Mexico
• Assessing silver-brown tamarin presence in Colombia
• Why is Borneo burning?

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The topics covered in this Asian primate special issue are:

• Forest use, livelihoods and biodiversity in Kulen National Park, Cambodia
• Distribution of the Javan slow loris in East Java
• Effects of cognitive enrichment in gibbons’ welfare (Hylobatidae)
• The trade and welfare of slow lorises as pets in Japan
• Relationship between climate, disturbance and Nycticebus javanicus behaviour in Cipaganti, West Java
• The slender loris and other wildlife in supernatural rituals in Bangalore
• Empowering local people through education to conserve Cambodia’s primates
• Population density and habitat assessment of Müller’s gibbon in East Kalimantan

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The topics covered in this issue are:

• Factors that impact upon the diet of the Cheirogaleidae
• Comparing glucocorticoid levels in captive black lemurs (Eulemur macaco macaco)
• Factors influencing the body weight of captive Lemur catta
• Launching Ako Project US curriculum for lemur conservation education
• The use of contact calls of Eulemur collaris, in South-eastern Madagascar
• Primate Crossword
• Advice and suggestions for commenting on illegal loris material on the internet

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p>The topics covered in this issue are:

• Biodiversity loss in Vietnam due to the demand for wildlife and wildlife products
• Intra- and inter-group communication in the Southern-Bornean gibbon
• 2014 MSc Primate Conservation student field research locations
• Behavioural monitoring of southern yellow-cheeked gibbons
• Conservation education in Sri Lankan hotels to encourage responsible tourism
• Assessment of habitat, population density and parasites of the Javan slow loris
• Saving the Critically Endangered Javan slow loris through ecology, education and empowerment
• Save the Sulawesi Macaques

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The topics covered in this issue are:

• Gestural head movements in captive bonobos
• Using of deslorelin to reduce aggression in male chacma baboons to improve animal welfare in captivity
• San Martin titi monkeys show a preference for forest boundaries in Peru
• Diet and activity budgets of western lowland gorilla in Central African Republic
• People-wildlife conflict in Nigeria
• Interview with Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ugandan gorilla veterinarian

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This issue is focusing on primates in captivity.

• Effects of enclosure design on captive gibbons
• How visitors affect lemurs in different captive settings
• Life as a primate keeper at ZSL London Zoo
• Exploration of the utility of genetic analysis to identify capuchin species and origins
• Pet primates in the UK: health welfare issues
• Sociosexual behaviour as an indicator of abnormal behaviour in captive bonobos
• The use of temperament scoring to improve survivorship for reintroduced slow lorises

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• Density study on red langurs in Indonesian Borneo
• Overview of colobine diets
• Brown collared lemurs in Madagascar
• Proboscis monkeys and their threats in Indonesia
• Slow loris study in Cambodia
• About International Animal Rescue in Indonesia
• Conservation of squirrel monkeys in Panama
• Interview with Professor Simon Bearder (Receiving the Osman Hill Memorial Award)

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Due to the upcoming International Primatological Society Conference in Mexico this year this issue is a special bilingual edition, published in Spanish and English and all the articles cover Neotropical topics.

• Yellow-tailed woolly monkeys and night monkeys in Peru
• Behaviour of captive sakis and squirrel monkeys
• Improving education and research at a Bolivian sanctuary
• Stress in captive pied tamarins
• Conservation and Ecology of Peru’s Endemic Primate Fauna

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• Primate health in Indonesian Borneo
• Behaviour of wild-born orphaned chimpanzees
• Local knowledge and uses for primates in Cambodia
• Western lowland gorillas in captivity
• Visitor effects on captive lemurs
• Disease transmission with Gorillas in Uganda
• Cropraiding in India
• Enrichment for Javan gibbons

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• Eco-hotels for the conservation of Sri Lankan grey langurs
• Feeding behaviour and activity levels of captive black and white colobus
• Comparative feeding ecology of two cercopithecine species
• GRASP-ing for survival
• Global Primate Network
• MSc student research 2010-2011

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• Jane Goodall: A short biography
• Disease transmission from human to chimpanzees and gorillas
• Pre-release monitoring of orphaned chimpanzees at H.E.L.P Congo sanctuary
• Toque macaques and eco tourism in Sri Lanka

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• How the Primate MSc helps conservation
• Pedalling for primates
• MSc student research 2009-2010
• Sykes monkeys in Kenya
• Population viability analysis of proboscis monkeys
• Behavioural ecology of Western hoolock gibbons
• Zoo visitors impact on owl monkeys at Bristol Zoo
• Primate conservation in Panama

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• Captive primate wellbeing
• Stereotypic behaviour in capuchins
• Primate conservation in Cambodia
• Play behaviour and activity budgets of gibbons
• Preliminary survey on Bengal slow loris in Cambodia
• Population decline in collared lemurs, Madagascar

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• MSc student research 2008-2009
• Identifying purple-faced langurs
• Gibbon populations and forests in Indonesia
• Lemur conservation in captivity
• Secrets of the swamp gorillas
• Enrichment for captive spider monkeys

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• MSc student research 2007–2008
• Bushmeat hunting on Bioko Island
• The Santa Martha Animal Rescue, Ecuador
• Interviews on the primate pet trade in UK and Southeast Asia
• Researching the primate pet trade
• Microhabitat variables and home range use in Western purple-faced langurs (Trachypithecus vetulus nestor)
• Primate Conservation Seminar Series

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• Lebialem Hunters’ Beekeeping Initiative
• Calling patterns of western purple-faced leaf monkeys
• Queen’s Anniversary Award
• MSc student research 2007–2008
• Ecological niche modeling

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• A history of primatology in Panama
• MSc student research 2006-2007
• Comment: Primate conservationists: the stuff we're made of
• Primate Conservation Seminar Series
• Compassion in fashion: conserving endangered gorillas through t-shirt sales
• Staff profiles
• Ex-students in the field
• Upcoming events

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• Experiences Living and Working in Cameroon
• Past MSc Student Works and Experiences
• Staff profiles: Mika Peck and Corri Waitt
• Primate Conservation Seminar Series
• Primate Conservation Seminar: Ian Redmond
• Book Reviews
• Primate Society of Great Britain: Celebrating 40 years
• Opinion

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• Human wildlife conflict in Uganda
• Past MSc student projects
• MSc Primate Conservation 2006-2007
• Books of Interest – Life after logging
• University events: Seminar Series

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• Letter from Ann Nekaris
• Welcome to Dr Ken Gold
• Primate Conservation Seminar Series
• MSc Project Sites
• Current Student Projects
• Past Student Projects
• Fundraising Update
• Book Review
• German Conference
• Course Information

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• 25 Most Endangered Species
• Primate Conservation Seminar Series
• Past Student Projects
• The Woolly Monkey as a Flagship Species
• Primate Conservation in Northwest Ecuador
• Frans de Waal - Seminar and Book Review
• MSc Fundraising Launch
• XXI IPS Conference Overview
• Correspondence from Past MSc Students

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• MSc Project Sites
• Wooly Monkey and Ikama - Peru Project
• Adventures in Madagascar
• Foraging Behaviour of Free-ranging Silvery Marmosets
• Effects of Enrichment on Captive Red Ruffed Lemurs
• Comparison of Captive Slow and Pygmy Loris Behaviour
• Survey of Gibbons in Central Kalimantan
• Primate Education at London Zoo
• Top 25 Most Endangered Primates
• Palm Oil and the Bornean Orang-utan
• Orang-utan Tool Use at Los Angeles Zoo
• Genetic Questions: Are You My Mother?
• Bald Lemur Syndrome

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• Conserving Sri Lanka Slender Loris
• Primate Conservation in the Columbian Amazon
• The Conservation of Orangutans in the Future
• Primates in the News
• Buyers Beware: Cruelty Free Today for a Better Tomorrow
• The Role of Media in the Future of Conservation
• Should Africa’s National Parks be Privatised?
• What is the Future Role of Zoos in Primate Conservation?
• Drastic Measures: Gorilla killed in Dallas
• Forest Survival Guide
• A Conservation Strategy on Bioko Island
• Evolution Candle
• Realities a World Away
• Where are we going?
• Student abstracts
• 2003/2004 MSc student titles