Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes

Tracie McKinney is a biological anthropologist with a research interest on human-primate interactions. She has primarily worked with Central American monkeys, but is interested in ecotourism, crop foraging, and other situations where humans and non-human primates interact. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University, and currently work as a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales. Tracie's most recent work has focused on ethnoprimatology and its role in primate research, a critique of the term 'commensalism' to describe human-primate relationships, and work on identifying primates depicted in ancient art and the implications of those relationships. Tracie is a member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group's Section for Human-Primate Interactions (SHPI). Michelle A. Rodrigues received her PhD in biological anthropology from The Ohio State University and will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University beginning August 2020. Her research focuses on the impact of sociality on stress biology in human and non-human primates. Her early research focused on social development in wild howler and spider monkeys, and her dissertation research focused on the interplay between female social relationships, reproductive status, and the anthropogenic environment on stress biology. She followed this project with research on comparative social relationships in captive chimpanzees and bonobos, and postdoctoral research examining female social relationships and stress biology in humans. Her postdoctoral research further included theoretical and applied work investigating the effects of racial and gender discrimination on female scientists. In addition to her scientific research, she is active in public and engagement and outreach, focusing on applied her research to topics including primate conservation, understanding the impact of evolution on human behavior, and building inclusive environments for marginalized scientists. Her writing has been published in Lady Science, The Revelator, and This View of Life, and with collaborators she moderates @Primatweeps, a Twitter public engagement project. Her writing on the influence of human observers on primate behavior was nominated as a Top Pick for Best Science Short-form Writing, and in 2020 she was designated a Kavli Fellow by the Kavli Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. Dr Sian Waters specialises in the human dimension of primate conservation. Sian is the founder and director of a community conservation project in Morocco focusing on the Endangered Barbary macaque. Sian collects and analyses ethnographic data to increase the long-term sustainability of conservation initiatives by identifying social and cultural obstacles to conservation. Her current research focuses on the complex facets of human-primate coexistence including human-primate relations, the primate trade and environmental justice. Sian is co vice-chair of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group's Section for Human-Primate Interactions (SHPI).

Introduction.- Part 1-Human Influences on Primate Habitats.- Forest Fragmentation.-  Primates in Regenerating Forest.- Responses of primates to roads: Dispersal barriers, mortality, and secondary effects.-  Hunting by humans.-   Primate-dog interactions.- Primate Tourism.-  Infectious disease.- Climate change impacts on non-human primates - what have we modelled and what do we do now?.- PART 2: PRIMATES IN HUMAN-DOMINATED LANSCAPES.- Community-based conservation strategies to promote primate conservation in agricultural landscapes.- Translocated primate populations.- Translocated primate populations.-  Exploring the human-primate interface.- Planning primate conservation in shared landscapes.-  Non-pathogenic influences on primate health and behaviour.- PART 3: PRIMATES IN CAPTIVITY.- Anthropogenic and observer effects on primate behaviour: Perspectives on the continuum of wild-captive behaviour.- The primate pet trade.-  Rescue, rehabilitation, and reintroduction.