You will hear more from McLean soon, as he also received a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship in July.

McLean will continue his work to understand and protect canopy mammals by camera-trapping in large-scale forest monitoring plots in Ecuador and Malaysia, both parts of the Smithsonian’s Forest Global Earth Observatory network of 64 forests in 25 countries. The factor most important in predicting howler monkey movement in a mature forest area on Barro Colorado Island was canopy connectivity at 10–20 meters above the forest floor. They may need mature, thick-canopied forest in order to take advantage of their ability to swing through the trees. In fact, spider monkeys seem to stick to certain routes through the forest. McLean found that spider and capuchin monkeys preferred the taller trees characteristic of mature tropical forest. Spider monkeys moved all around the island, whereas capuchins and howler monkeys stayed in smaller areas. You will be asked a few questions to ensure youre eligible and then get scheduled an Info Session. Monkey testing can be beneficial in some areas of testing. It is significantly different from Gorilla testing and Ad-hoc Testing. Call CityLink at (513)-357-2000 and let them know you would like to enroll in SmartMoney. Monkey Testing is the comparatively new testing type to perform testing. CityLink is one place with all kinds of services. As a result of their low-energy diet, they usually move more slowly, only about 3 meters per minute on average.Ĭapuchins moved farthest every day, more than 3,000 meters whereas spider monkeys moved only 2,500 meters and howler monkeys just over 400 meters. SmartMoney is a program within the CityLink Center. Capuchins and spider monkeys that eat a high-energy omnivorous diet of fruit, bird and reptile eggs, small animals and insects moved quickly through the forest-at almost 5 meters per minute. The three monkey species moved in very different ways. Mariah Hopkins from the University of Texas at Austin contributed movement data for mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata).

Christina Campbell, professor at California State University, provided GPS tracking data for black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Meg Crofoot, research associate at STRI and assistant professor at the University of California at Davis, offered GPS location data from a high-ranking female white-faced capuchin monkey (Cebus capuchinus). McLean, as part of his doctorate at the Yale School of Forestry, used GPS tracking data on three monkey species to determine which canopy properties best explained the movements.

Based on the map they were able to estimate, at different points in the forest, how mature the trees were, whether a monkey would be able to jump from one branch to the next (lateral connectivity) and whether there would be something to land on if it did (substrate availability). To create three-dimensional maps of the tropical forest canopy on the entire island, a team from the Carnegie Institution for Science flew over the forest in a plane equipped with airborne LiDAR equipment.

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