Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2026, 6:40 am98 pts
How do you search for the world’s smallest monkey? Earlier this year, Nicolás Schuldt Durán took on this task after he was approached by members of an Indigenous community in Ecuador. Ever since, he’s been tapping into the knowledge of the Siekopai people and combining it with passive acoustic monitoring…

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