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Primate Conversations returns for Michaelmas Term 2021

Our virtual seminar series returns on October 12th, with weekly talks Tuesdays at 3pm (UK time) streamed on our Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab YouTube channel

Primate Conversations MT21 line-up

Images of our first four post-doctoral fellows - Drs Lydia Luncz, Thomas Püschel, Alejandra Pascual-Garrido & Alex Mielke - who have moved on to stellar positions

Post-doctoral research positions

Our first post-doctoral fellows have conducted outstanding research and moved on to stellar positions - please contact our lab head, Dr Susana Carvalho, if you wish to discuss possible post-doctoral research projects with us

Find our current projects here

An undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology student examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright

Teaching the next generation of primatologists & paleoanthropologists

This year, Archaeology & Anthropology undergraduates at the University of Oxford had the opportunity to examine casts of fossil hominin skulls in one of the beautiful School of Anthropology gardens as part of their human origins course with Drs Susana Carvalho and René Bobe

Support for Students

Two chimpanzees in the Bossou forest, photographed in 2018

A successful celebration of World Chimpanzee Day on 14th July 2021

From our Up-Goer Five Challenge to our Chimpanzee Anecdotes event, discover how we marked the day by exploring the links below

World Chimpanzee Day 2021

Illustration of raw material sourcing for termite-fishing tools by wild chimpanzees, created by Luis da Silva, published in Pascual-Garrido & Almeida-Warren (2021)

Archaeology of the Perishable

A milestone comparative study led by Lab members Alejandra Pascual-Garrido and Katarina Almeida-Warren, out now in Current Anthropology

Read the paper here

Polaroid-style photographs of the members of the Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab as of March 2021, created by João d'Oliveira Coelho

Getting creative for our Spring 2021 Lab group photo

Even though we have not been able to recreate our usual Lab group photo since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still keeping the tradition going and supporting one another virtually

Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa - Baboon, season 2018. Photo by René Bobe

Baboons of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

A number of our Lab members study troops of baboons in Gorongosa - you can read about some of their research on our projects pages

Projects

Oxford-Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Field School

A uniquely interdisiplinary experience, providing students with training in primatology, palaeoanthropology, archaeology, geology, speleology and ecology within one of the richest ecosystems in Africa, Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique

Field School information

Vervet Monkeys feeding on the flowers of the Flame Creeper (Combretum microphyllum) in Gorongosa National Park - photograph by Lee Bennett

Vervet monkeys of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

One of our study species is the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), pictured here feeding on the flowers of the flame creeper (Combretum microphyllum) in Gorongosa - photo by Lee Bennett

Paleo-Primate Team surveying in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

The Paleo-Primate Project team surveying for fossils in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Learn all about the team's research in the Gorongosa Rift Valley through the project page below

Paleo-Primate Project

Our Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab members participarting in a virtual celebration quiz via a Zoom call - there were points for the best hat so everyone is sporting headware of some kind (the winning hat featured a chicken)!

Our 2020 Lab group photo

Taken during a virtual celebration quiz in lockdown times - a bit different to our usual Lab get togethers, but still lots of fun

Joya, a young female chimpanzee, walking bipedally while carrying a pair of stone tools (anvil and hammer). Photo by Jules Doré.

Chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea

Since 2006, the research of our Lab Head, Dr Susana Carvalho, has focused on wild chimpanzee stone tool use in the forests of Bossou and Diecké

Chimpanzee technology

Our (almost complete) Lab at the @efppsgb2019!

(Almost) all of our Lab members pictured during the EFP-PSGB 2019 conference

We were very happy to co-host the memorable event in Oxford with our colleagues at Oxford Brookes University on behalf of the European Federation of Primatology and the Primate Society of Great Britain