University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nature’s Valley Baboon Project presented at IPS Madagascar!

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 and mushroom eating.

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NVBP team member and Master’s student (University of Glasgow) Carla van Hasselt talks to other researchers about mycophagy in primates and the mushroom species our project observed chacma baboons eating.

 

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Former NVBP field manager Sophie Kurilla talks to International Primatological Society Congress attendees about baboon spacial ecology.