Tree Field Studies: Primate Behavior Course in Costa Rica

Tree Field Studies was started to educate undergraduate and graduate students in tropical ecology, conservation and animal behavior. The Tree Field Studies team has facilitated research opportunities for graduate students and seasoned researchers at various sites in Africa and Central America. We are also committed to helping local people living near these sites by providing employment opportunities, educational funding, and community project work aimed at enhancing people’s lives while protecting wild areas. In addition to receiving excellent training to become future scientists, our students also enjoy fun side trips. In the past, students have visited volcanoes, cloud forests, coral reefs, and beaches. They have relaxed in hot springs, gone swimming in lakes of extinct calderas, and zip-lined through the forest canopy.Tree Field Studies students experience what most people simply dream about - wild undisturbed rainforest. Our students can observe macaws at close range, collect jaguar scat for Panthera, track monkeys through the trees, monitor poison-dart frog populations and catch glimpses of tapirs. They are awakened by parrots in the early morning hours and observe sea turtles nesting on pristine beaches after dark.