Kanyawara Chimpanzee Blog (Harvard University)
Created | Updated Jan 29, 2007
Among the areas that the Departement of Anthropology at Harvard deals with is primate behavioural ecology.
At a long-term research site in Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda chimpanzees are followed on foot as they move around, eat, groom, have sex, hunt and fight (in no particular order). This study was started in 1987 by Professor Richard Wrangham and is still under way today.
Chimps live in what is called a fision-fussion society and the society that is being studied in particular by the researchers from Harvard is called the Kanyawara community.
In January 2006 for the first time, the Department of Anthropology is producing a blog from the field. This is a first attempt to present research work in such web format using the personal experiences of the scientist while out with the chimps. The aim is to give a perspective to students and others, who have interest in animal behaviour what it's like to work in the field as a primatologist.
More on: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~primates/
Questions and comments are welcome: [email protected]
At a long-term research site in Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda chimpanzees are followed on foot as they move around, eat, groom, have sex, hunt and fight (in no particular order). This study was started in 1987 by Professor Richard Wrangham and is still under way today.
Chimps live in what is called a fision-fussion society and the society that is being studied in particular by the researchers from Harvard is called the Kanyawara community.
In January 2006 for the first time, the Department of Anthropology is producing a blog from the field. This is a first attempt to present research work in such web format using the personal experiences of the scientist while out with the chimps. The aim is to give a perspective to students and others, who have interest in animal behaviour what it's like to work in the field as a primatologist.
More on: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~primates/
Questions and comments are welcome: [email protected]
