Conservation biologist Eleanor Sterling is running a blog of field notes from a survey for langurs in Vietnam, in the NY Times "Scientist at Work" blog zone.
Vietnam harbors a diversity of primates — almost a quarter of all the primate species found in Asia — ranging from the woolly, diminutive loris species that only come out at night … to the long-armed and graceful gibbons famous for their elaborate duets; to the gregarious, stout-bodied macaques; and, of course, leaf-eating monkeys that are the focus of our study!
