Undergraduates publish in local South African journal!

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 Anthropology and Conservation Biology double major Gabrielle Ralphe and “What’s on the menu? Exploring chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) consumption of indigenous and invasive plants and implications for Afrotemperate forest management” led by Anthropology and Wildlife Ecology double major Isabelle Anderson. Full issue of Nature’s Letters April 2026 found here: https://nvt.org.za/natures-letters/

UW-Madison undergraduates and Harvard and Boston University undergraduates being trained in behavioral methods at the start of their time in Nature’s Valley, South Africa, summer 2025.
Cover of Issue 3 of Nature’s Letters, a local South African journal run by the NGO NVT with one regional academic peer reviewer per article.