RAFAEL REYNA-HURTADO
Department of Anthropology
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7
Office: Chapman Lab, 80 Peterson Hall (basement)
Tel: (514) 398-4400 ext. 089759
Email: Rafael.ReynaHurtado@mail.mcgill.ca    

Associate researcher at The Wildlife Conservation Society,
Bronx, New York, USA
rreyna@wcs.org

RESEARCH HISTORY
I have 18 years of experience in the wildlife field. My first six years of professional career were spent in a zoological park in Michoacan, Mexico (Parque Zoologico Benito Juarez) where I worked in several field like the primates area and did behavioral enrichment activities for several species. I conducted some behavioral studies with great apes (bonobo, chimpanzee, and orangutan) while there. In 1997 I started my career in the wild, working as research assistant for the academic institution of ECOSUR in southern Mexico where I was involved in an ecological study of brocket deer, two very shy species of tropical deer in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve of southern Mexico. Later I joined another project that involved capture and following of ocellated turkey and endangered turkey of Yucatan Peninsula. While being in the forest of Yucatan Peninsula, especially in the spectacular Calakmul Biosphere Reserve I defined my career as wildlife ecologist with focus on endangered tropical species. With that on mind I went to the University of Florida to pursue my master and doctoral degree at the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in Gainesville, Florida. I focused the topic of both degrees on the ecology and conservation of ungulates of Calakmul, especially the endangered white-lipped peccary of whom I conducted the first wild study in Mexico that involved radiotracking of several groups.
After finish my PhD I worked for one year and half in the Wildlife Conservation Society in the Latin-American and Caribbean Program and I am still associated with them through research projects in Mexico.  In 2009 I moved to Montreal, Canada to start a three year postdoctoral stay with Dr. Colin Chapman who I have known and work with him while in Florida for 5 years now. My current study is about movement patterns in four species of primates, two in Uganda and two in Mexico. I hope to continue doing research about animal movement, and social-ecology aspects of endangered tropical species with the goal of provide interesting and useful information for their conservation.

PUBLICATIONS
Peer review indexed journals:
Reyna-Hurtado, R., C. A. Chapman, S. Calme. Submitted. Searching in heterogeneous environments: foraging strategies in the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).

Chapman, CA, LJ Chapman, AL Jacob, JM Rothman, PO Omeja, R. Reyna-Hurtado and Michael J. Lawes. 2010. Tropical Tree Community Shifts: Implications for Wildlife Conservation. Biological Conservation 143:366-374.

Reyna-Hurtado, R., E. Rojas-Flores, and G. W. Tanner. 2009. Home range and habitat preferences of white-lipped peccarygroups (Tayassu pecari) in a seasonal tropical forest of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy 90(5)

Reyna-Hurtado, R. E. Naranjo, C. A. Chapman and G.  W. Tanner. 2009. Hunting and the conservation of a social ungulate:
the white-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari in Calakmul, Mexico. Oryx 44:89-96.

Reyna-Hurtado, R.  2009. Conservation status of the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) outside the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, Mexico: a synthesis. Tropical Conservation Science

Pérez-Cortéz, S. y R. Reyna-Hurtado. 2008. La dieta de los pecaries (Pecari tajacu y Tayassu pecari) en la región de Calakmul, Campeche, México. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoologia, 12:17-42

Reyna-Hurtado, R., G. W. Tanner. 2007. Ungulate relative abundance in hunted and non-hunted sites in Calakmul Forest (Southern Mexico). Biodiversity and Conservation 16:743-756

Weber, M., G. García-Marmolejo and R. Reyna-Hurtado. 2006. The tragedy of the commons Mexican style: A critique to the Mexican UMAs concept as applied to wildlife management and use in south-eastern Mexico. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(5):1480-1488

Reyna-Hurtado, R., and G. Tanner. 2005. Habitat Preferences of an Ungulate Community in Calakmul Forest, Campeche, Mexico. Biotropica. 37(4):676-685.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS:
Reyna-Hurtado, R., E. Naranjo, S. Mandujano, and I. March. The peccaries. Wildlife of Mexico. Ed. Raul Valdez and A. Ortega. In press

Reyna-Hurtado, R., and G. Tanner. In press. Efecto de la perturbación humana en la abundancia relativa de ungulados en tres comunidades de la region de Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. In: Manejo de Fauna Silvestre en la Selva Maya. By: Calme, S., M. Guerra and S. Gallina (eds)
Bello, G. J. and R. Reyna-Hurtado. In press. Mazama temama (Kerr 1792), Central America Red Brocket Deer. In: Cervidology, By: S. Gonzalez (ed)

Reyna-Hurtado R., y S.Perez-Cortez. En prensa. El Pecarí Labios Blancos (Tayassu pecari) en Campeche, Uso, Conocimiento Actual y Estado de Conservación. En: Biodiversidad en Campeche. Gobierno del estado de Campeche.

Reyna-Hurtado, R., Taber, A., Altrichter, M., Fragoso, J., Keuroghlian, A. & Beck, H. 2008. Tayassu pecari. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org

Beck, H., Taber, A., Altrichter, M., Keuroghlian, A. & Reyna, R. 2008. Pecari tajacu. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org

Bello, J., Reyna, R. & Schipper, J. 2008. Mazama temama. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org.

Reyna-Hurtado, R. 2008. Hunting the Paybe. Wildlife Society Magazine. New York, USA. Pp. 6-8
Sadao Perez y R. Reyna-Hurtado. 2008. La dieta de los pecaries (Pecari tajacu y Tayassu pecari) en la región de Calakmul, Campeche, México IUCN- PPHSG Newsletter, Suiform Soundings Vol 8 (1), July 2008, pp. 52-62.

Reyna-Hurtado, R. M. Altrichter and E. A. M. Junior. 2006. Methods for the study of peccaries in the wild. IUCN-PPHSG Newsletter. Suiform Soundings. Vol. 6(2):26-34

Vargas-Contreras, J., G. Escalona-Segura, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, R. Calderón-Mandujano, L. Interián-Sosa y R. Reyna-Hurtado. 2005. Especies Prioritarias  de Vertebrados Terrestres en Calakmul, Campeche, Vertebrata Mexicana

Reyna-Hurtado, R. 2003.  Five short notes about several issues related to protected areas of South America, published at the IUCN website: www.sur.iucn.org or www.iucn.org see news between June-August 2003.

Reyna-Hurtado, R. 2003. Author of the basic texts in: “Protected areas in Latin America, from Caracas to Durban” an IUCN publication.