Cayo Santiago

Most of these are pictures from trapping season or summer, 2003


Cayo Santiago, Winter 2004

Cayo Santiago at sunset from the dock at Punta Santiago

The view from our balconey Jan-March, with Cayo Santiago in the background

Cayo Santiago monkey siting in a dead tree

another Cayo Santiago monkey sitting in a tree

A "golden" coat monkey and her baby

Winter, 2004 interns Chanda Hoopes and Brian Skewes

Foraging monkey

Edgar, William, Jorge and Sammy with a tranquilized D07, the "Madonna Monkey"

Chanda holding a baby monkey during trapping season

Iguana on Cayo Santiago

Iguana's are a recent arrival to Cayo Santiago. Prior to 1999, none were found on the island

Darcy holding a baby monkey

Brian holding a baby monkey

Cayo Santiago Monkeys on the top of big cay

One of the focal monkeys in my study

Note the black cattle paint on her shins--this is to indicate that she had already been trapped and released

Leaf Boy

This monkey is called "Leaf Boy" because he always has a leaf in his mouth

The view of Big Cay from Small Cay

My sister Danielle and I at the top of Big Cay

A "golden" coat monkey

A female monkey and her baby

A view of Puerto Rico from Cayo Santiago

"Yep, they got me"

A recently trapped and tattoed yearling with cattle paint on his legs to show that he has already been trapped.