Dr Nancy Priston

Great news!

Last week whilst following one of the other troops of monkeys I discovered that a new baby had been born into the troop. This troop live primarily in the Kakenauwe Nature reserve which is a small area of forest bordered by farms, plantations, villages and the road. Their range encompasses the whole of the reserve which is approximately 810 hectares big and although they still have fruit trees to feed on it’s a pretty small area now as the edges have been eaten away with farms and plantations. So they often come out in the farms to forage for food. In the past this troop has been really large, over 45 individuals and usually there are plenty of infants at this time of year. This year however the group seems to have split up into 2 smaller groups and we’re left with only about 26 monkeys and until now there were no infants. The arrival of this little one is really exciting and a great sign for this troop after the split  🙂

Mum checking the little guy over