From the Field
Joel Bray was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for their project entitled “Social relationships in male chimpanzees: Form, function, and development.” Click here to read a summary of their project.
Joel Bray, a graduate student at Arizona State University, is studying the development of male-male social relationships in chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Using a combination of original fieldwork and long-term data collection, they are interested in how early social experiences predict variation in the strength and diversity of adult male social bonds.
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