This primatologist started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the animals left in this swath of wilderness. She immediately fell in love with the northern muriqui and dedicated her life to saving it.
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American biological anthropologist Karen Strier observes northern muriqui monkeys at the Feliciano Miguel Abdala Private Natural Heritage Reserve, in Caratinga, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Strier describes her first encounter with the willowy, critically endangered golden-grey monkey as “love at first sight.”
Some also refer to them as “forest gardeners,” for their role as seed dispersers. They eat fruits from high trees that many other animals cannot reach, and defecate the seeds on the forest floor. Inside the 2,300-acre Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve, a privately protected area where Strier has based her research program, the northern muriqui population has grown nearly fivefold, to 232. That’s about one-fifth of the critically endangered species’ overall population.
In 2016, Fernanda Pedreira Tabacow, a former student and right arm of Strier’s, heard that there were only two muriqui males left in a patch of forest in Ibitipoca, southwest of the Feliciano Miguel Abdala reserve. She knew that, without any intervention, they were doomed.Biologist Clariane Caroline de Araujo climbs onto a platform in a protected area of forest to feed a group of northern muriqui monkeys, in Lima Duarte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Saturday, May 6, 2023.
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