Overpasses for arboreal mammals

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Category:Architecture and Structures

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Keywords:Biological Reserve, Lami José Lutzenberger, citizen science, community, accidents, accident, electrocution, electricity, power lines, vehicles, cars, traffic, dead, death, mortalities, mortality, road-kill, road-killed, roadkilled, roadkill, bridge, rope bridge, rope overpass, rope ladder, trees, tree, crossing opportunity, mitigation measure, mitigation measures, wildlife, highway, highways, roads, road, road ecology, porcupine, dwarf porcupine, hairy dwarf porcupine, Sphiggurus villosus, orange-spined, Didelphis, Didelphis albiventris, opossum, white-eared opossum, Alouatta guariba, Alouatta guariba clamitans, primates, primate, howler monkeys, howler monkey, brown howler monkey, brown howler monkeys, arboreal mammals, arboreal mammal, arboreal, crossings, arboreal crossings, arboreal crossing, canopy crossings, Rio Grande do Sul, mammal, mammals, Brazilian, Brazil

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Larissa Oliveira Gonçalves, Fernanda Zimmermann Teixeira and Bethanie Walder doing their monkey thing at a canopy crossing, near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Larissa Oliveira Gonçalves, Fernanda Zimmermann Teixeira and Bethanie Walder doing their monkey thing at a canopy crossing, near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Through the Urban Monkeys Program, six canopy crossings were installed in a neighborhood adjacent to the Lami José Lutzenberger Biological Reserve. The aim of the program is to reduce electric hazards associated with power lines and to reduce road-kills of brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans). The power company insulated the power lines in several places, specifically around the canopy crossings. The implementation and monitoring effort of the canopy crossings involved the local community. The following species have been observed using the structures: brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba clamitans), white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), and orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus).