Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Forword by Robert D. Martin
- Introduction
- 1 Human-nonhuman primate interactions: an ethnoprimatological approach
- 2 Habituating primates: processes, techniques, variables and ethics
- 3 Habitat description and phenology
- 4 The Global Positioning System, Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing
- 5 Monitoring local weather and climate
- 6 Survey and census methods: population distribution and density
- 7 Trapping primates
- 8 Handling, anaesthesia, health evaluation and biological sampling
- 9 Morphology, morphometrics and taxonomy
- 10 Marking and radio-tracking primates
- 11 Feeding ecology and seed dispersal
- 12 Dietary analysis I: Food physics
- 13 Dietary analysis II: Food chemistry
- 14 Collecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies
- 15 Tape-recording primate vocalisations
- 16 Photography and video for field researchers
- 17 Chronobiological aspects of primate research
- 18 Thermoregulation and energetics
- 19 Field endocrinology: monitoring hormonal changes in free-ranging primates
- 20 Collection, storage and analysis of non-invasive genetic material in primate biology
- 21 Tips from the bush: an A-Z of suggestions for successful fieldwork
- Index
- References
10 - Marking and radio-tracking primates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Forword by Robert D. Martin
- Introduction
- 1 Human-nonhuman primate interactions: an ethnoprimatological approach
- 2 Habituating primates: processes, techniques, variables and ethics
- 3 Habitat description and phenology
- 4 The Global Positioning System, Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing
- 5 Monitoring local weather and climate
- 6 Survey and census methods: population distribution and density
- 7 Trapping primates
- 8 Handling, anaesthesia, health evaluation and biological sampling
- 9 Morphology, morphometrics and taxonomy
- 10 Marking and radio-tracking primates
- 11 Feeding ecology and seed dispersal
- 12 Dietary analysis I: Food physics
- 13 Dietary analysis II: Food chemistry
- 14 Collecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies
- 15 Tape-recording primate vocalisations
- 16 Photography and video for field researchers
- 17 Chronobiological aspects of primate research
- 18 Thermoregulation and energetics
- 19 Field endocrinology: monitoring hormonal changes in free-ranging primates
- 20 Collection, storage and analysis of non-invasive genetic material in primate biology
- 21 Tips from the bush: an A-Z of suggestions for successful fieldwork
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Although the past two decades have seen a revolution in many aspects of field biology due to advances in radio-tracking and telemetry, including the development of satellite and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, these techniques have been applied less to primates than to other orders of mammals or to vertebrates in general (Casperd, 1992). A comprehensive account of animal tagging, or even of radio-tagging, would warrant a book in itself, but here we aim to draw the attention of primatologists to the advances in this family of techniques. We review a number of important studies of primates that have used them, and introduce the practicalities involved. The reader considering the use of these techniques should advance no further without exploring the wider, and vast, literature associated with radio-tracking other mammals. General reviews of radio-tracking are presented in Amlaner & Macdonald (1980), Kenward (2001), and Millspaugh & Marzluff (2001) (see ‘List of suppliers and useful Internet sites’ at the end of this chapter).
The term ‘radio-tracking’ is correctly applied only to the use of radio-transmitters and receivers to record location information. Traditionally, most field biologists have used VHF (very high frequency) or UHF (ultra high frequency) radio-tracking transmitters, but recently there has been a rapid growth in satellite tracking systems and associated technology (Chapter 4). ‘Biotelemetry’ is, strictly, the remote measurement of biological, particularly physiological, data (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, brain wave activity) (Amlaner, 1978; Chapter 18).
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