Species Co-Ordinator
Omar Freddy Osco Alanoca
I work with the Centro de Biodiversidad y Genética (C.B.G.), Colección Boliviana de Fauna (C.B.F.) and Alianza Gato Andino (A.G.A.) in Bolivia to study small mammal taxonomy and diet, the effects of habitat fragmentation on rodent communities and prey-predator relationships. In 2012, while conducting assessment work on small mammals, we captured two individuals Abrocoma cf. boliviensis in Polylepis subtusalvida patches. They were kept in the laboratory to make the first ever nutritional and behavioral observations. We also attempted to use radiotelemetry to study them in the wild but we had problems with the transmitters. I will continue to seek funding to continue this work to find out more about the ecology of this hardly known species.