About Rzss Living Links
Living Links is a research centre at Edinburgh Zoo housing brown capuchin monkeys and common squirrel monkeys.
Rzss Living Links Description
Living Links to Human Evolution is a field station and research centre located at RZSS Edinburgh Zoo. The facility is owned by the University of St Andrews in partnership with other universities in the Scottish Primate Research Group.
The centre houses 35 brown capuchin monkeys and 30 common squirrel monkeys, living in two mixed-species groups.
Research takes place four days a week in purpose-built research rooms. All of the experiments conducted with the monkeys are visible from the visitor deck. Participation in experiments is voluntary; monkeys come in to take part because they enjoy the puzzles we give them! We also conduct observational research from the viewing platforms to understand more about their behaviour.
You can witness feeding every day at 12: 45, and from April-November there will also be a talk about the centre and the monkeys at this time.
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One of LL researchers Dr. Blake Morton is off on a wonderful adventure, sharing all the amazing knowledge he has in a lecturing post. We wish him luck and look forward to seeing him back for future research.
Until then take a look at the wonderful, cute and informative blog he wrote last year about the squirrel monkey babies and their mums who were running around Living Links last summer.
Also, spring is just around the corner so be sure to pay us a visit for more cool infor...mation on research and primate behaviour! http://www.living-links.org/the-stork-com es-to-visit-the-lβ¦/
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One of LL past researchers Dr F. Blake Morton has written a fun and informative blog about the cup game. LL researchers do this game with the monkeys before conducting their own research. This helps the monkeys and researchers get to know each other a little better. Have a read below to learn some interesting facts about this game.
One of our current researchers Donna Kean has had her past work with Brown Tufted Capuchin Monkeys published in Animal Behaviour. It was a pleasure reading her paper, writing the blog and having her input. Have a read about her paper in the blog linked below πππ»
This Thursday 20th come along to Monkey Matters at the Budongo Trail Lecture Theatre. Learn from the Living Links researchers about Capuchins and Squirrel Monkeys.
Find out more: http://socsi.in/cDO3u
'Feeling anxious? The mechanisms of vocal deception in tufted capuchin monkeys.' By one of the researchers we were lucky to have at Living Links and very much liked by the capuchins.
The weekend is here but so is the rain, so here is something to brighten up your day! An insight into how keepers and questionnaires can help us understand how a primate is feeling.
Edinburgh International Science Festival week consisted of an event at Edinburgh Zoo on Mon 3rd and Tue 4th April. It was a great success with a massive turn out and so many little scientists in the making :D Thank you to all of the helpers and to those who came and made it a special fun filled two days!
The Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF) comes to Edinburgh Zoo on April 3rd & 4th, 11-3pm at Bundongo Trail. There will be stations for the children to interact with such as mirror self-recognition used in toddler and primate research. Come and learn a little about the science and research used in child development and primate research :D
Feeding time and this squirrel monkey shows off its balancing skills whilst hoarding two pieces of sweet potato. #rzsslivinglinks #edinburghzoo #feeding #balancing #monkeytails
Blog on research conducted here at Living Links. Bringing into question the reliability of photographs as a measure of social cognition in Brown Capuchins.
We now have an Instagram account and the monkeys need friends! Find us on Instagram as rzsslivinglinks π
Today Living Links most recent researcher Da Zhang from St Andrew University was training with the squirrel monkeys. It is important for the researchers and the monkeys to go through this stage of training to ensure the research that follows runs smoothly and efficiently. It looked like it was a success, the squirrel monkeys were piling up to get some goodies from him! Come see our researchers in action Mon- Fri between 11.15am-12.45pm and 2.15pm-4.00pm :D
We have just had some research published showing that many of our squirrel monkeys enjoy human visitors- and choose to approach visitors at the viewing window!http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi /10.1002/ajp.22639/full
Food preference testing got the capuchins very excited this morning! They all wanted to participate. Wanting the yummy foods to themselves. Come visit Living Links and read all about the research going on here, how great it is for the primates and maybe even see it in action π
As our only wild-born monkey we don't know for certain when Kato was born, but he is turning 11 years old sometime this month! He's certainly the most recognisable of our capuchins and loves to watch the visitors. He was very sadly captured and kept as a pet as a baby, but luckily for him he now has a home at Living Links. He is very affectionate towards keepers, researchers and volunteers when he recognises them on the balcony, and loves coming into the cubicles to take part in research. He is also making very good progress socialising with the rest of the group, finding adopted brothers in Carlos, Chico and Reuben. He even carries some of the youngsters around on his back! Happy birthday sweet boy! Any Kato fans?
Santi is 14 today! She's the largest of our capuchin females and her three children are also quite large for their ages. She's often found in the company of her mum, alpha female Lana. Here she is enjoying a tasty treat.