Grants awarded in previous years

The Barcelona Zoo has in recent years granted the Snowflake Grant to several specific research projects. These are some of the investigations have been conducted in recent years thanks to this programme:

2010

Serum bank and DNA bank for primates in Barcelona Zoo - Animal Tissue Bank of Catalonia (BTAC)

2009

The mother-child conflict in the Black and Golden Howler Monkey and its comparison in two parts of north-eastern Argentina

Evolutionary implications of the location of the chromosome territories in the interphasic nuclei in hominids

2008

Balancing the nutritional demand of the population and the conservation of wildlife in the region of Pico Basilé, Bioco, Equatorial Guinea

2007

Food ecology and variability of dental microwear in a population of Papio cynocephalus in Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
Researcher: George Galbany (UB)

papion

2006

Ebola virus ecology and effects on the gorilla population of Lossi Sanctuary Plain(Congo)
Researchers: Farrés Rose and Victor Bonet (University of Barcelona)

2005

Systematic focus on the dynamics of a meta-population of primates (Alouata palliata mexicana) in fragmented habitat
Researcher: Cristina Domingo Balcells (Barcelona University)

Sponsors of Research and preservation of the Zoo:

Acsa

COMSA EMTE

Telefónica

CESPA

FCC

URBASER

TEYCO

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