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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 →
After my time in Kalahari, I traveled across South Africa to my other study site, the Urban Vervet Project. Spending two amazing weeks with the current ground team of Stef,... read more →
In October, the Meerkat Cognition Project’s ground team set up all the necessary data collection and experiments for Season 2 of our Field data collection. This year some meerkat groups... read more →
During this year’s field trip, I had the privilege to introduce the Kalahari meerkats to my family, who joined the field team for two weeks. Luna representing generation II of... 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 →
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 →