{"id":1211,"date":"2022-06-28T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:18:41","slug":"this-class-is-a-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/2022\/06\/28\/this-class-is-a-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"This Class is a Zoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> Anthropology courses (ANTH <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/search\/?P=ANTH%20402\">402<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/search\/?P=ANTH%20502\">502<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/search\/?P=ANTH%20403\">403<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/search\/?P=ANTH%20503\">503<\/a>) are featured on the front page of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/magazine\/spring-summer-2022\/this-class-is-a-zoo\/\">Montclair Magazine<\/a>, featuring our innovative teaching and engaged community coursework at the Turtle Back Zoo. An excerpt of the story is below. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some students sit on the ground, others lean against posts or stand as they discuss primates with the professor, who crouches in front of the group, so as not to obstruct the view of the gibbons swinging on ropes behind her. One gibbon hangs from a vine, staring at the students and making faces as though they are the ones on exhibit. Another quietly grooms herself on a ledge, ignoring the rambunctiousness of the others. Welcome to class at the zoo, officially Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Methods in Primatology.<\/p>\n<p>Offered for the first time this spring, the combined undergraduate and graduate course met all day every Thursday at the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange. The six-credit course, which started in the bitter cold of January, took place outdoors no matter the weather. Through a partnership with the zoo, 18 graduate and undergraduate students mostly studied primates \u2013 gibbons, tamarins, galagos \u2013 but also conducted observational research on other species including sea lions, otters, wolves, manta rays, toco toucans, a cheetah, a snow leopard and a red panda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese students aren\u2019t just learning how to be scientists, they are scientists in this class, and I couldn\u2019t feel better about the future knowing it\u2019s in their hands,\u201d says Assistant Anthropology Professor Cortni Borgerson.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of this story in the newest edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/magazine\/spring-summer-2022\/this-class-is-a-zoo\/\"><em>Montclair Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course at Turtle Back Zoo gives students the opportunity to help keepers with research and animal conservation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}