So, we have just completed our third day in the field! After a few delays last week (the majority related to truck repairs), we arrived at a local community to the west of Cape Three Points Reserve on Wednesday. We set up camp and settled in, greeted by the children wanting to spend time with us.
After a 4am start the next day, we conducted our first line transect through the reserve, walking for a mere 10 hours before we returned to camp. As I learnt within the first hour of being in the rainforest, a fear of spiders quickly disappears when you are constantly covered in them trying to scramble up and down hills. During both our first and second days of walking transects, we saw various signs of primates in the reserve, including what we believe to be vocalisations from the white-naped mangabey! Today, we started our systematic camera trapping and acoustic recording of the middle section of the reserve. Thankfully, we have our expert tree climber, Joe, to scale up to the top of the canopy to place cameras… it’s VERY high! Tomorrow we have another day of placing cameras and more sound recorders. Though field work in the rainforest is extremely hard, it feels like it is getting easier by the day. Returning to camp completely soaking and dripping in sweat has become the norm, and slowly but surely our body clocks are adjusting to the very early wake-ups. After all the build-up, planning and preparation for this trip we are both very happy to have started our research projects and we are looking forward to what the coming months have in store for us…which will hopefully include lots of monkeys.
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