Two UW-Madison undergraduates who first worked on data entry and organization in our research group and then spent summer 2025 in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, published articles in the local South African journal Nature’s Letters! Check out “Grooming equitability in female chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) following group fusion in Nature’s Valley, South Africa” led by UW-Madison …
We have a new paper out in the American Journal of Primatology! “Fungal diversity and potential health benefits of mycophagy in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)” is open access and can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.70146 We identified 10 species of fungi consumed by chacma baboons in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, and discussed the potential health implications …
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior and Wildlife Ecology and Anthropology double major Isabelle Anderson presented a poster at the UW Undergraduate Symposium in April 2026 on her summer 2025 field project in South Africa and Wildlife Ecology Capstone! She examined the extent of indigenous versus non-indigenous plant foods in the baboon diet in Nature’s Valley, South …