User:Surfingpigeon

I study the cognition and communication of great apes from an evolutionary perspective at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My Ph.D. research was a systematic study of gestural communication in a wild great ape, undertaken with the Sonso chimpanzee community in the Budongo forest, Uganda. I have also studied the ecology of forest living baboons, and the nettle processing skills and gestural communication of gorillas. My current projects focus on multi-modal communication in wild chimpanzees, investigating the way in which vocalisations and facial expressions are combined with gestures. I am also managing the habituation of a new community, where we are looking at the behavioural and physiological effects of the habituation process.