For the polar bear research of my Professor Jane Waterman, I worked in subarctic Churchill, situated next to Hudson Bay at the Churchill Northern Studies Center. This research involves non-invasive methods of establishing individual identity, body condition and...
The objective of my thesis is to investigate the ultimate drivers and proximate mechanisms behind sociality in the unique social system of Cape ground squirrels, a promiscuous, egalitarian South African rodent species. Using a top-down approach, my thesis will be...
Under the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, I worked in the Tai National forest (Ivory Coast) as a research assistant and camp manager for the Tai Chimpanzee Project. As a camp manager, I was responsible for maintaining the scientific integrity of the...
For the minor research project of my masters program: Environmental Biology – Behavioural Ecology, I studied Cape ground squirrels, inhabitants of the semi-arid inlands of South Africa. I studied the influence of individuals personalities on male reproductive...
For the major research project of my masters program: Environmental Biology – Behavioural Ecology, I studied Barbary macaques, a primate species that inhabits the mountainous regions of northern africa. I compared a zoo-reared population that was housed at the...