Monkey Monitor: Smithsonian Scientist Meg Crofoot

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Monkey Monitor: Smithsonian Scientist Meg Crofoot

Meet Meg Crofoot, a primate researcher on Barro Colorado Island at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. Meg studies intergroup competition in white‐faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) by tracking them through radio telemetry collars and observing their behaviors. After acquiring her degrees at Stanford and then Harvard, Meg continues to serve as a post‐doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, as well as at STRI, and also teaches in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Read more about Meg and her research: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~crofoot/ Produced by Brian Ireley and Johnny Gibbons, Smithsonian Institution Capuchin footage courteously provided by Jill Bruhn and Rocio-Maria B. Garza Orangutan photo by Mathieu Fortin Music: Sanidade (Drums in the Street Mix) by Incarnadine

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