Archives for chimpanzee

12.29.16

Grantee Spotlight: Rachna Reddy

Grantee Spotlight
Rachna Reddy is a PhD candidate from the University of Michigan. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2016 cycle for her project entitled "The development of male reproductive strategies in wild chimpanzees."
11.04.16

Grantee Spotlight: Ekwoge Abwe

Grantee Spotlight
Ekwoge Abwe was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our spring 2016 cycle for his project entitled "Behavioral diversity with genetic and ecological variation in chimpanzees, Cameroon." Here he gives us a summary of his project. Stay tuned for news from the field!
10.25.16

Feeding Transitions in Wild Infant Chimpanzees

Journal Article
Iulia Badescu was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2015 cycle for her project entitled "Investigating the infant nutritional development of wild chimpanzees." She was recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and she was kind enough to summarize the article for our Leakey Foundation Blog.
09.08.16

Grantee Spotlight: Stephanie Bogart

Grantee Spotlight
Leakey Foundation grantee Stephani Bogart is part of a team that has established a new long-term research site in Senegal’s Niokolo Koba National Park to study how chimpanzees adapt to a savanna environment