If you’re a researcher in search of a field site let us know! There are plenty of monkeys at the Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project 🐒🐒🐒

Excited to have been awarded this grant for our project on the holistic assessment of wild baboon welfare! It’s great that Wild Animal Initiative is supporting research into this important and under-researched topic 🔎🐒

Finally after the long drought the baboons are having babies again! Here’s Kacey (KC) with her day-old boy. His code is KL, what should we name him? You can also “adopt” him through the Venmo link below: if you donate $50 you get to name him and receive regular updates!

A new article by Dr. Shirley C Strum, founder of the UNBP, reviewing her 50-year career as a “baboon watcher”🐒👀 Confessions of a baboon watcher: from inside to outside the paradigm. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Male #baboons have a bad reputation as being aggressive and despotic, but they can be very gentle and tolerant, especially towards youngsters - to the point of letting them stand on their heads! Pictured here are Yves and infant Bogart2, 📷 by Butu. #gentlegiants

The first group of U.S. National Science Foundation #IRES students have landed in Kenya! We’re spending a few days in Nairobi before heading to the Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project and took the opportunity to check out the National Museums of Kenya 🇰🇪

Our co-Directors Monica Wakefield and Corinna Most received a grant from Wild Animal Initiative to study welfare in wild olive baboons. Here’s to a great field season! 🥂

Excited to share that Andrew Somerville & I received word that our edited volume is published & available to order! This volume is aimed at students & archaeology practioners interested in using isotopes as a tool to investigate past human behavior. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Looking forward to participating as a speaker rather than a student! I’ll be discussing the evolution of human inter-birth intervals from a comparative perspective - spoiler alert: other apes are not great models for this trait…

What a fantastic group of students, we couldn’t have asked for a better team for our first year of the @nsfgov #IRES and we can’t wait to see what they accomplish next! Applications for next year open soon, contact Dr. Most Corinna Most for more info. #fieldwork #primatology

The new issue of African Primates has just been published - a special issue that pulls together all the Red List conservation status info, range countries, etc. into one place. I hope you find this useful. Download a copy from the journal's web site: primate-sg.org/african-primat…

Tune in on Thursday 8/31st, 8AM US EDT/3PM EAT, to hear our co-Director Dr. Corinna Most (Corinna Most) talk about the community-based conservation work done by UNBP to mitigate human-baboon conflict! Register at bit.ly/3YJ99zY

Happy #InternationalPrimateDay! It's such a privilege to spend our time with these beautiful, smart animals year after year. If you'd like to join us, applications are now open for the 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation #IRES program for US students! Deadline is 12/1, apply here: forms.gle/tMUBv4Mfg9gAm4…

The talk given by Co-Director Dr. Corinna Most (Corinna Most) on human-baboon conflict and mitigation strategies is now available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Be_dRg… Learn about the many ways we work with the local community to improve relationships between humans and wildlife!

So proud of my grad student @KatieHawks for winning best podium presentation at their FIRST podium presentation!! 🤩👏🏼 Thanks #MPIG2023 for a great conference weekend!

📢 This Friday! UCSD-CARTA presents, "Comparative Anthropogeny and Other Approaches to Human Origins" 🗓️Fri, 3 Nov ⏰ 1:00-5:30 PM PDT 📍Salk Institute & #livestreaming 📲Register: tinyurl.com/CARTA2023CompA… #CARTA2023CompAnth #FREE #Public

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Who is the fairest of them all? Participate in student-led short & fun survey on the physical condition of male baboons. Mobile kogetho.shinyapps.io/Baboon_Experim… or else kogetho.shinyapps.io/Baboon_Experim… Please RT Primatenzentrum DPZ Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition Uni Göttingen Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP)