Each tree was surveyed monthly within the last 3 days of every month by an experienced field assistant and fruit abundance was recorded using a logarithmic scale (0, absence; 1, 1 10 items; 2, 11 100; 3, 101 1,000; 4, 1,001 10,000; 5, >10,000, a method commonly used in primatology, Ganzhorn 2003).
He helped the university become a leader in primatology during his tenure with his study of baboon colonies in Kenya.
It was this ambivalence, combined with her background in primatology, that prompted Hrdy (now an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis) to question some cherished assumptions about motherhood.
Some of his colleagues in primatology admit to impatience with his position — and with the broader bonobo cult that flattens a complex animal into a caricature of Edenic good humor.
"So while the situation is not great for species living in these heavily hunted zones surrounding the national park, it would seem that in the case of lesula, we've stumbled on one of the few 'good news' stories in primatology," said McPhee.
Altmann, troubled by the androcentric focus in primatology and less than rigorous methodologies, brought her perspectives as a woman, a feminist, a mother, and a mathematically trained scientist to bear on improving research methods.
Back then, the entire park was teeming with animals, says Geneviève Campbell, a graduate student in primatology at Max Planck, but illegal hunting has since been on the rise.
Donna Haraway (1989) explored assumptions concerning the binaries, objective/subjective and science/nature, through an analysis of gender and racial bias in primatology.
Thus, Haraway (1989) shows how hypotheses in primatology and evolutionary theory depend on narrative conventions (for example, casting the transition from ape to hominid as a heroic drama) and tropes (for example, casting primates as mirrors of human nature).
