University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: L’Hoest’s Monkey Project

Guenon social nutrition project update 2026

Dr. Bryer visited Uganda in July 2026 to deliver project supplies and work with John Rusoke, Nelson Mwesige and Sabiiti Richard, but kept the visit short for public health safety. L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) and redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) behavioral data collection and plant food collection are going well. Check out some highlights below!

Lab member Elana Berghoff presents at the AABA COD Undergraduate Symposium 2026

University of Wisconsin-Madison second-year undergraduate Elana Berghoff (Nutritional Sciences major) presented at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) Committee on Diversity (COD) Undergraduate Symposium in Denver, Colorado, in March 2026! She presented a poster on preliminary results on L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) socioecology at Kanyawara site in Kibale National Park. Specifically she presented a …

Update: L’Hoest’s Monkey Socioecology Project 2025

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.