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! …
Nature’s Valley Baboon Project
New paper out of our research group on fungi in chacma baboon diet!
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 …
Undergraduate and Nature’s Valley Baboon Project team member Isabelle Anderson presented at UW-Madison Undergraduate Symposium 2026
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 …
Members of Nature’s Valley Baboon Project team present at Midwest Primate Interest Group Conference 2025
Undergraduate students Isabelle Anderson (UW-Madison) and Gabrielle Mostow (Harvard University) presented posters on their summer projects at the Midwest Primate Interest Group meeting in Chicago in September 2025! Both students spent their summer in Nature’s …
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 …
Summer 2025 (or winter 2025 in South Africa) was an exciting time for the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project!
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, …