Grantee Spotlight: Salmah Jombela
Salmah Jombela is one of the few people in the world who has successfully habituated a community of wild chimpanzees. She studies chimps in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
Grantee Spotlight: Sharifah Namaganda
Sharifah Namaganda is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan who studies how chimpanzees move in the trees. Learn more about her work!
Meet the capuchin monkey: Curious, creative and vengeful
Primatologist Susan Perry has spent much of the past 35 years studying the complex social lives of white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica.
Grantee Spotlight: Natalia Camargo Peña
Natalia Camargo Peña is a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow and PhD student from Colombia who is learning about what shapes individual differences in primate social development.
Grantee Spotlight: Stephen Magohe
Stephen Magohe is a geologist and assistant lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam who is pursuing his PhD at the University of Calgary. In 2024, Magohe received a prestigious Francis H. Brown African Scholarship for his project “Investigating early Homo habitat through geoscience at Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania.”