A few weeks ago Christopher Young has been awarded a PhD Degree from the Georg August University of Gottingen, Germany, for a thesis entitled “Cooperation and competition in wild male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in Morocco”. Chris has been a key member of the Barbary Macaque Project since it’s start, having worked in Morocco as […]
Poaching alert! Allerte braconnage!
In the last days, whilst our team was not with the monkeys, 4 infants (3 girls and one boy) have disappeared out of the Green group. This is the group we have been studying over the last 3 years or so. We are convinced that the disappearance is caused by poaching for many obvious reasons […]
Something To Lose
As our team searches through many square kilometres of often heavily forested, dense and challenging terrain (determined to locate a small group of quiet, agile, and cryptic monkeys), more often than not we hear our subjects long before we see them; juveniles crashing around in the morning canopy; the squeals of insistent infants; or the […]
New Macaque Project Springs into Action
Any Barbary macaque would tell you, if it could, that spring is a wonderful time to be in the Atlas Mountains. With the weather warming up there is sunbathing to be done, delicious flowers, herbs, new leaves and shoots to guzzle, and plenty of little black bundles of joy arriving to keep you hopping from […]
Primate Conference
At the beginning of April, Lincoln hosted the Primate Society of Great Britain Easter Conference. This was an intense two days meeting that gathered primatologists from UK and various other European countries. The quality of the talks and posters was excellent and the conference was also an excellent opportunity for members of the Barbary […]