Student Spotlight: Katarina Evans Discovery May Help Save Old World Monkeys
Katarina Evans in the field (Photo courtesy of Evans)
By Lida Tunesi
For an aspiring primatologist facing COVID-related travel restrictions, Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate
Katarina Evans (Anthropology) is having a surprisingly productive spring. She recently published her first, first-authored journal article and is making progress on her dissertation research.
In a paper in the
Jessica Rothman (GC/Hunter, Anthropology) describe some findings about the diets of Old World monkeys that may impact conservation efforts. They found that the usual way of measuring protein in the Old World monkeys’ leafy foods overestimates the amount that the primates can actually digest. At least, this is the case for colobine monkeys living in Kibale National Park in Uganda.