Summer 2025 (or winter 2025 in South Africa) is an exciting time for the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project!
Co-directors Dr. Kris Sabbi and I 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 (University of Glasgow) and Nicolas Marais (Nature’s Valley Trust), to learn behavioral data collection and conduct independent projects.
Pictured are some members of the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project 2025 (left to right): Dr. Margaret Bryer (UW-Madison, co-director), Carla van Hasselt (University of Glasgow), Nicolas Marais (Nature’s Valley Trust, NVBP field manager), Gabby Ralphe (UW-Madison), Sarah Zhang (Boston University), Isabelle Anderson (UW-Madison), and Gabrielle Mostow (Harvard). Team members not pictured: Dr. Hendri Coetzee (NVT director and NVBP co-director), Dr. Kris Sabbi (Harvard and NVBP co-director), and Dr. Rudi Swart (NVT Forest Program manager).