Program

Saturday, June 21

• 15:00 Tour of the Potholes, Blyde River Nature Reserve
• 19: 00 Dinner at Club House, Crystal Springs
  

Sunday, June 22

• 9 am Introduction and Update - Judith Masters and Trudy Turner
• Invitation by Antoinette Kotze to hold next meeting of Pegg at the Pretoria Zoo
• 9:20 Fabien Genin Is Gummivory primitive for primates?
• 9:40 Sylviane Volampeno Predation on lemurs in Sahamalaza National Park
• 10:00 Judith Masters The French Connection: Khure and Lemur Origins
• 10:20 Tea Break
• 10;40 Trudy Turner and Paul Grobler Overview of Vervet Life History and genetics research program
• 11:00 Kim Vigue, Pat Whitten and Ben Campbell Hormonal and Behavioral variability in vervet monkeys under stressed conditions
• 11.20 Paul Grobler, Kerry McAuliffe, Joe Lorenz and Trudy Turner Update on Genetic study of vervet monkeys in South Africa
• 11;40 Elizabeth Drew Body weight and access to human food in vervet monkeys
• 12:00 Jennifer Danzy Color Variation in Primates
• 12:20 Janes Pampush A Human Impact Index
• 12:40 Kirsten Wimberger Post release success of two troops of rehabilitated vervet monkeys
• 13:00 Lunch at the Club House
• 14:00 Adrian Tordiffe Diabetes treatment of a gorilla at the Pretoria Zoo
• 14:20 Riashna Sithaldeen Update on baboon genetics project
• 14:40 Hannes Marais Primates in the Blyde River Nature Reserve
• 15:00 Kerry Slater Resource utilization by chacma baboons in the Suikerborand Nature Reserve
• 15:20 Thys de Wet Solutions to damage caused by baboons to forestry plantations: a progress report
• 15:40 Open forum for update on other prmate projects in South Africa
• 16:15 Tour of the Morgenson Pine Plantations near Crystal Springs
• 19:00 Dinner at the Club House

Saturday, June 21

• Breakfast