Three female primatologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison spoke to The Daily Cardinal on Jane Goodall’s influence on their lives and research. Dr. Karen Strier, Dr. Margaret Bryer and Dr. Alexandra Kralick were interviewed about the influence of Jane Goodall for the student newspaper serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison community. Read the full article here. …
Undergraduate students Isabelle Anderson (UW-Madison) and Gabrielle Mostow (Harvard University) presented posters at the Midwest Primate Interest Group meeting in Chicago in September 2025! Both students spent their summer in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, studying wild chacma baboons as part of the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project (NVBP). Isabelle’s project examined the contribution of indigenous versus …
Welcome to another affiliate of the primatology research groups here in the Anthropology department at UW-Madison, Dr. Alexandra Kralick! She is joining UW-Madison as a Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology co-advised by faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies and faculty in Anthropology (Drs. Strier and Bryer). Dr. Kralick describes herself as “a biological anthropologist …
Sophia Mummert graduated from Temple University and is a first year PhD student in Anthropology with research interests in primate behavioral ecology, focusing on nutrition and energetic trade-offs. This fall she will be TAing Anthro 105 Principles in Biological Anthropology and getting started in the Primate Nutrition Lab!
In July 2025, the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project, co-directed by Dr. Margaret Bryer, Dr. Kris Sabbi and Dr. Hendri Coetzee, presented at the 30th Congress of the International Primatological Society in Antananarivo, Madagascar! Multiple members of the baboon team presented two posters and discussed with researchers from around the world Nature’s Valley baboon ranging patterns …
At Kanyawara in Kibale National Park, Uganda, team members John Rusoke and Nelson Mwesige are collecting social and feeding data on our habituated L’Hoest’s monkey group. L’Hoest’s monkeys, also sometimes known as mountain monkeys, are relatively understudied semi-terrestrial guenons.
Co-directors Drs. Kris Sabbi and Margaret Bryer brought four undergraduates from the US to work with our third co-director Dr. Hendri Coetzee and our research team on the ground, Carla van Hasselt and Nicolas Marais, to learn behavioral data collection and conduct independent projects. Student projects included looking at baboon activity budgets before and after …