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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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Freely Downloadable Primate Foraging Papers

Category: Primatology
Posted on: July 20, 2007 11:46 PM, by afarensis, FCD

I checked the journal Animal Cognition just to see if the paper on Saki monkeys was available and to my surprise the entire issue was devoted to primate foraging strategies. More importantly, they seem to be freely available for download. The species covered are mainly South American - with the exception of the Chacma baboon.

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From the link you provided to Springer I did some more searching on various species and found I could access a lot of content. ?!?!?!?

Right now I'm looking for recent info about white-cheeked gibbons (Hylobates leucogenys). Have you done any profiles on this species yet?

I completed my pygmy marmoset natural history last month. The big ah-ha was that much of their diet is sap or "exudates." Now I am talking to the zoo keepers about providing live saplings in their exhibit as a form of enrichment.

Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2007 12:41 AM

No, the only ape I have covered is the Siamang, mainly because I haven't decided how much detail I want to go into on the apes. You might check here, they have an extensive bibliography on gibbons.

Posted by: afarensis, FCD | July 22, 2007 2:26 AM

Thanks for the lead. I generally start with "The Pictorial Guide to Living Primates" (because it's available at the local library) and the Primate Information Network website. Then I look for other sources to fill in the questions not covered in those two. I do this work as part of the zoo's volunteer behavioral enrichment team.

Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2007 3:14 PM

The Animal Diversity Web (linked to in my sidebar in the Anthropology General and Technical Resources section) is also quite good. Sounds interesting, I'm going to have to check into something like that at my zoo.

Posted by: afarensis, FCD | July 22, 2007 4:23 PM