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 …
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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 …
Lab member Elana Berghoff presents at the AABA COD Undergraduate Symposium 2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore 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 …
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 …
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, …