There is two general activities that occur at Béza Mahafaly when studying the sifakas. The first is processing where the animals are collard and a variety of measurements are taken. The collar with tags help the researcher Id the animals in the second major activity, the census. A census involves a researcher going into parcel 1, a protected area with a variety of trails, and looking for a group of lemurs. The census tries to record number of individuals, gender, unmarked individuals, what tagged individuals there is, and where the group is located. Each group is given a shorthand name like Diddy.
One of the animals that we followed around was individual 833. This male carried an accelerometer on his back to record the gravity forces exhibited while leaping through the trees.
