End of October we celebrated the first Birthday of the Urban Vervet Project by giving a public talk on our project progress at the Simbithi estate and a very nice... read more →
On September the 2nd, Sofia held a public talk at the Zoological Museum, University of Zurich “Studying wild animals in South Africa: meerkat cognition and urbanization in vervet monkeys” for... read more →
We are currently looking for a passionate fieldworker to join our data collection team at the Kalahari Research Centre. Using both observational end experimental methods you will be studying the... read more →
From April on Dr. Elisa Bandini officially joined my research team at the Animal Behaviour Group at the University of Zurich. Elisa and I will be working on the experience... read more →
Listen to my Contribution on Apes, Evolution and Curiosity Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/choosetobecurious/ep-184-curiosity-in-apes-with-sofia-forss?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fchoosetobecurious%252Fep-184-curiosity-in-apes-with-sofia-forss Here you find the Podcast: Choose to be curious
Beyond excitement that together with Dr. Elisa Bandini, we won this year’s Early Career Award from the Einstein Foundation promoting quality in research. The Award of €100,000 goes to our... read more →
End of November I visited the ground team at Simbithi: Stephanie and Lindsey, who are making incredible progress in documenting all the different monkey groups we have in the study... read more →
Since a couple of weeks now, I have had the pleasure of working with wild vervet monkeys with Inkawu vervet project in Mawana Game Reserve in South Africa. My fieldwork... read more →