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Barbudal hillocks are home to several groups of white-faced capuchin monkeys which, since 1990, have been the subject of the Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Monkey Project, an ongoing research project by primatologist Susan Perry of UCLA. As of January 2010 Mr. Manrique Montes Obando is the administrator of the reserve.
The white-faced capuchin, which has a range from Honduras to Ecuador, [14] is the second smallest Costa Rican monkey. Adult males average 3.7 kg (8.2 lb) and adult females average 2.7 kg (6.0 lb). [9] The mantled howler, with a range from Mexico to Ecuador, [15] is the second largest monkey species in
Cebus capucinus, the Colombian white-faced capuchin, also known as the Colombian white-headed capuchin; There are 2 subspecies of Colombian white-headed capuchin: [1] C. c. capucinus; C. c. curtus (Gorgona white-headed capuchin) C. imitator has a range in Central America, in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. [1]
The Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Monkey Project is an ongoing field research project founded in 1990 by primatologist Susan E. Perry of UCLA.The project is dedicated to the study of the ecology, foraging behavior, and social behavior of the white-faced capuchin monkeys of the Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
The range of capuchin monkeys includes some tropical forests in Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. In Central America, where they are called white-faced monkeys ("carablanca"), they usually occupy the wet lowland forests on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.
The forests, grasslands and marshes of the area provide shelter for various endangered species such as cougars, jaguars, tapirs, ocelots, peccary and several species of monkey (Panamanian white-faced capuchin, mantled howler and Geoffroy's spider monkey), as well as many others.
The conservancy runs a primate field school at La Suerte which has such courses as "Primate Behavior and Ecology", "Advanced Primate Behavior and Ecology", and "Primate Conservation". The courses center on the two native primate species of the area: white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) and Mantled Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta ...
Corcovado National Park is the only park in Costa Rica in which all the country's four monkey species can be seen. [20] The more accessible Manuel Antonio National Park is the only other park in Costa Rica in which the Central American squirrel monkey is found, and the Panamanian white-faced capuchin and mantled howler are also commonly seen there.
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