University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: August 2025

Update: L’Hoest’s Monkey Socioecology Project 2025

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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.

Summer 2025 (or winter 2025 in South Africa) was an exciting time for the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project!

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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 …