First Impressions

Today was my first working day on Cayo, a field site that is held to the same standards of a biomedical research facility (meaning the monkeys are all fed and given fresh water, though most of them still drink from puddles anyway). There are so many monkeys on Cayo- to give some perspective, it takes about 20 minutes to walk the length of the island and about 5 minutes to walk the width, yet there are over 1000 rhesus macaques on the island. The group that I will be working with is 100 focal adults and a little over 200 individuals total.