This week we had a couple of days off and took advantage with a wee road trip to the Cascades D’Ouzoud. A wonderful set of waterfalls in the centre of Morocco. We had all heard about the groups of macaques living around the falls but we thought our luck was out and […]
Month: December 2010
PSGB conference
Last week I was at the PSGB conference (Primate Society of Great Britain) to present a poster of the study on tourism effect on anxiety and physiological stress levels of Barbary macaques in Morocco. It is always great to have the opportunity to show our results and work on the field to other researchers. To […]
Wild Christmas
As we all know, Christmas is approaching and with everything that that implies. However, since Morocco is a Muslim country and thus does not celebrate Christmas, there is not much around to remind us about it. But shame on us if that was to stop us! An mp3-player packed with Christmas songs, a little Christmas […]
Hello everybody
I am Sandra, a PhD student of the University of Lincoln. I will give you news about my field work here in Morocco. For the moment I work with two groups: the Green Group, and a group living near a tourist area (the Tourist Group). English is not my native language, so excuse me in […]
Mini Monkeys
I’ve been struggling for a few weeks trying to come up with a subject to write about. For the time being, I’ve been living and working in Morocco for the past 9 months so I can assure you that by now I have plenty of stories to share which makes it quite hard to decide […]