Field Projects International is offering a training program targeting students with an interest in wildlife handling or veterinary science. This program will train students to participate in an annual capture and release program on tamarins (small Neotropical primates) in southeastern Peru, and is part of an ongoing long-term tamarin monitoring project begun in 2009.
At the end of this program, students will be able to:
- Identify all materials used in an animal field processing kit
- Collect swabs of secretions and genetic materials from the primates
- Determine sex and appropriate age of individuals by morphological characters for two primate species
- Appropriately handle wild primates under time constraints
- Record TPRs at regular intervals (temperature, pulse and respiration)
- Manipulate a weighing scale to accurately record the body mass of subjects
- Collect biological samples
- Store and process biological samples analyses of endocrinology, parasitology and reproductive physiology
Start Date: June 7, 2016 (Minimum commitment 5 weeks)
Where: The Los Amigos Biological Field Station in Southeastern Peru
Application Deadline: April 17, 2016
Learn More: https://fieldprojects.org/research/wildlife-handling/