HOPE report

Number:20-007-7

Community ecology of primates in Danum Valley Conservation Area

Report:HANYA, Goro

Date:2008/12/17 - 2008/12/26

I have conducted my project on the community ecology of five species of diurnal primates in Danum Valley Conservation Area since September 2006. My Malaysian assistants continue collecting data sampling while I am not at the study site. Since the beginning of the project, I have conducted primate census, orangutan nest census and fallen fruit census along a trail of 9. 9 km in length. Since December 2006, I have conducted behavioral observation of one group of red leaf monkeys. I started to observe other primates in May 2007. This time, I followed red leaf monkeys for 20 hours in three days. Every 10 minutes, I recorded the activity (feeding, moving, grooming and resting), the height of the animal and the height of the tree where animals are staying for all the visible individuals. When they are eating, I collected food samples and identified species. As this was the last field research of the current project, I disposed the research equipments and brought all of the data back to Japan. In Kota Kinabalu, I made a final report to the relevant organizations.

After reporting the completion of this project, I had a dinner with Mr. Jimmy Omar, 
the manager of the Danum Valley Field Centre, and his family.

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