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Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone.: +49 (341) 3550 - 200
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 299
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Current staff
Moses Akantorana
- research assistant in Bwindi
Sosthene Habumuremyi
- PhD student
- Hormonal correlates of socio-sexual behaviors in female mountain gorillas
Daniela Hedwig
- PhD student
- the socioecological function of vocal communication in gorillas
Imong Inaoyom
- PhD student
- ecological and anthropogenic factors that determine the distribution and conservation of the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)
Theresa Laverty
- research assistant in Bwindi
Christopher Orbell
- Project manager for Loango Ape Project
Harriet Kyakyo
- research assistant in Bwindi
Nicole Seiler
- PhD student
- Habitat utilization and decision making in Bwindi mountain gorillas (and former research assistant for Bwindi gorilla project)
Andrew Robbins
- Research assistant
- agent based modelling and demographic/life history analysis
Edward Wright
- PhD student
- Feeding Competition and Female Social Relationships in Bwindi Mountain Gorillas (and former research assistant for gorilla habituation in Loango)
Former group members
Thomas Breuer
- graduate student
- Behavioral and morphological characteristics influencing male reproductive success in western gorillas
- Mbeli Bai, Republic of Congo
Emily Turinawe
- conservation education coordinator and data entry in Bwindi
Jessica Ganas
- graduate student
- diet selectivity and habitat utilization of mountain gorillas
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Damien Caillaud
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Feeding ecology, feeding competition, and habitat utilization of gorillas
Cyril Grueter
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Feeding ecology of Virunga mountain gorillas
Joel Glick
- Research Assistant in Bwindi 2008-2009
Katerina Guschanski
- Population genetics of Bwindi mountain gorillas
Jojo Head
- PhD student
- Non-invasive monitoring to measure dietary overlap, inter-specific competition, and population dynamics in wild living western gorillas, central chimpanzees and forest elephants
- Project manager for Loango Ape Project 2005-2011
Peter Kabano
- research assistant in Bwindi
- activities focus on assisting Uganda Wildlife Authority with habituation of two gorilla groups
Shelly Masi
- graduate student
- Foraging strategies of western gorillas: food selectivity and feeding competition
- Bai Hokou, Central African Republic
John Bosco Nkurunungi
- Postdoc
- Foraging efficiency of mountain gorillas
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Sarah Sawyer
- Research assistant in Bwindi
Angelique Todd
- graduate student
- Socio-ecological factors influencing the habitat use of western gorillas
- Bai Hokou, Central African Republic
Alex Tumukunde
- Research assistant in Bwindi
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