Recently our field team has detected how our semi-urban monkeys are raiding newly introduced bird feeders within our study site of Simbithi Eco Estate, South Africa. We are now excited... 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 →
This MSc project will focus on identifying different types of alarm calls and the context in which they are used in a semi urban vervet monkey population. In particular, we... 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 →
In this article we compared four different great ape species in their intrinsic curiosity levels. This means we conducted the experiments with each ape alone, to control for the fact... read more →
Many thanks to the Kalahari Meerkat Project and all the lovely staff and volunteers for a great stay, as I did my very first field visit to the research site.... read more →
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