Program Of The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The American Society of Primatologists

Hosted by Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia

August 8-11, 2001

ASP Board of Directors

President John Capitanio President-Elect Jeffrey French Past-President Nancy Caine Executive Secretary Janette Wallis Treasurer Steve Schapiro

Chairs of the Standing Committees

Awards and Recognition Gabriele Lubach Conservation Randy Kyes Education Lynne Miller Membership and Finance Steve Schapiro Program Tammie Bettinger Publications Melinda Novak Research and Development Dee Higley

Historian

Peggy O’Neill-Wagner

Sponsors

ASP gratefully acknowledges Armstrong Atlantic State University for hosting the 2001 meeting. We thank the following sponsors for their support: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers LabDiet of Purina Mills Harlan Teklad Wiley-Liss Publishers Armstrong Atlantic State University Wildlife Conservation Society

Local Arrangements Committee

Bob Lessnau, Chair Ken Relyea Susan Kempke Judy Awong-Taylor Heather Hungerford Jodie Shelton Lynn Armstrong Lori Choquette

Program Committee Members

Kate Baker Joe Bielitzki Maria Boccia Richard Harrison Elizabeth Johnson Lisa Jones-Engel Chris Kuhar Kristen Lukas Joanne Morris Marilyn Norconk James Paterson Sharon Pochron Lori Sheeran Lorraine Smith Darlene Smucny

The Program Committee thanks Renee Fetters and Kym Parr (Cleveland Metroparks Zoo) for assistance with the compilation of the 2001 Program. We also thank Nancy Capitanio for developing the computer program that allowed us to have on-line registration, on-line abstract submission and computer generated conference reports.

MEETING ROOMS

The conference will take place at Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA. Keynote and Featured Presenters will speak in the Auditorium of the Fine Arts Building. All concurrent oral paper sessions, workshops, symposia and roundtables will be held in University Hall (adjacent to the Fine Arts Building Auditorium) in Rooms 156, 157, 158. The Icebreaker and two evening poster sessions will be held in the Memorial College Center. There will be hors d’oeuvres and cash bar at both poster sessions and the icebreaker.

REGISTRATION

The table for registration and information (questions, help, messages, etc.) will be located in the University Hall. The registration area will be open from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Wednesday, August 8th, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Thursday and Friday, August 9 and 10 and 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Saturday, August 11th.

EXHIBITS, VENDORS AND CONSERVATION SILENT AUCTION

Exhibits, vendors and items donated for the Conservation Committee’s Silent Auction will be displayed in Room 121 of University Hall. Exhibits can be set up between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Wednesday, August 8th. Please visit and support the exhibitors and sponsors. Exhibitors include: Noldus Information Technology Harvard University Press Foundation for Comparative and Conservation Biology Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Wiley-Liss Publishers Harlan Teklad Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Library Britz-Heidbrink Cambridge University Press LabDiet of Purina Mills S. Karger The University of Chicago Press

SLIDE PREVIEW ROOM

Speakers may preview slides in the slide preparation room located in University Hall.

POSTER SET-UP

Individuals presenting posters can set up their poster presentations in the Memorial College Center between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM the assigned day of their poster session. Authors are encouraged to set posters up early and leave them up for the entire day. Poster sessions will be held between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM on Thursday, August 9th and Friday, August 10th. Authors should remove their posters immediately following the sessions. There will be hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar available during the poster sessions.

BANQUET

The final banquet ending the conference will be held Saturday, August 11th at 7:00 PM at the Savannah Station. Buses will leave Armstrong Atlantic State University at 6:00 PM. Return buses from Savannah Station to AASU will run at 10:00 PM, 11:00 PM and 12:00 Midnight. Dining will be a Low Country Boil and Bar-B-Q.

2000 STUDENT COMPETITION WINNERS

The American Society of Primatologists proudly acknowledges the winners of the 2000 Student Paper and Poster Competition, Kimran Miller and Yvonne Searcy. Oral Paper K. Miller and J. Dietz. University of Maryland. Factors affecting variation in daily food intake by wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia). Poster Y. Searcy and N. Caine. California State University, San Marcos, CA. and Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego. Captive Geoffroy’s marmosets (Callithrix geoffroy) react to soaring bird models with anti-predator behaviors.