The girls of the PrimatesPeru team in Puerto - Mini, Erin, Karina, Emma

Spring Break!!

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March 24th 2010
After over two months isolated in a few wooden buildings in the middle of the Amazon with the same group of researchers, you tend to get a little stir crazy (think “The Bowdoin Bubble” X 1000). Conveniently enough, the two month checkpoint coincided with the necessary pick-up of a caller monkey from Puerto Maldonado (more on that later), so we decided to go on the Amazonian version of spring ... read more

South America » Peru

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more