Photo through the windscreen of sunrise through the dust cloud of the truck in front
Looks like the dry season has started… 😷😂
#eatdust #gonechimping @mbchimp.bsky.social 🧪
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Three large colourful duffels stacked inside each other
I present the duffel-in-duffel-in-duffel #turduffen !! A useful way to consolidate & segregate dirty but wearable clothes (protect at all costs chicken) from ‘field’ dirty (salvageable duck) from good god the smell (maybe we should burn it turkey) ☠️🧪
#fieldwork #gonechimping @mbchimp.bsky.social
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A black and white photo of a machete stuck standing vertically into a muddy forest floor
Forget the sword in the stone, here @mbchimp.bsky.social
it’s the machete in the mud that’s the rainy season hero! 😂
#fieldwork #gonechimping #moyenbafing #guinea #dontforgetyourmachete 🧪
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A silvery tree frog with gold flecked eyes clings to a small branch
At least the #frogs of the #moyenbafing are living their absolute noisiest #rainyseason #bestlife 🛁🐸🧪
#fieldwork #gonechimping #guinea #maketherainstop #glowup @mbchimp.bsky.social
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Black and white photo of a small snake in bamboo rafters
Pleased to report that new roomie & I getting along just fine after coming to some basic agreements about no-no spaces (boots, bedroll) and yes-please activities (eating large invertebrates)..
#fieldwork #herp #moyenbafing #guinea #gonechimping @mbchimp.bsky.social 🧪
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A large very hairy stripped orange caterpillar curled up asleep on stones
Fieldwork lessons : we do not touch the sleepy hairy pretty ones… both because it would be impolite to wake them from their sweet reveries, and because it would hurt like a mo-fo.. 😳
#fieldwork #caterpillars #guinea @mbchimp.bsky.social
#gonechimping 🧪
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The base of a very chonky folded baobab tree trunk
I like Bay-oh babs, and I can not lie…
#baobab #Guinea #moyenbafing #fieldwork #gonechimping 🧪
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A road - now a river - on way into the park
A river - now a road - on a chimp habituation morning
Baby monitor lizard in a river was a road..
Good people of Bluesky.. it’s time for the classic rainy season fieldwork game of : river-or-road?! @mbchimp.bsky.social 😂⛈️
with bonus new was-road-now-river friend 💚
#fieldwork #rainyseason #gonechimping #guinea 🧪 #moyenbafing
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A grainy black and white photo of heavy rain on a street as people walk through the water
Go figure that on the Micronesia-Scotland-Guinea turn around, Scotland was the only place it didn’t rain on me everyday 😂 #rainyseason #fieldwork #Conakry #gonechimping
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3 large duffles stacked on top of each other
First we pile, then we pack, then we pile.. it’s the ciiiiircle of (field)life 😂
#fieldwork #guinea @mbchimp.bsky.social #gonechimping 🧪
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A bw shot of a peaceful baboon looking down while being groomed
First fieldwork loves… been a full circle year coming back to working with these beautiful souls two decades later.. (and yes, also agents of chaotic evil 😂 just not always..)
#budongoforest #baboons #gonechimping #fieldwork #uganda 🧪🐒
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A small neon green caterpillar with black spikes and a vicious attitude
First rule of fieldwork club : we don’t touch the pretty little murder grubs…
#budongoforest #gonechimping #caterpillar #uganda #fieldwork 🧪
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At our @mbchimp.bsky.social field site in northern Guinea the bees like to nest inside of the long drop toilet.. this makes the need to drop trousers over it an outstanding exercise in core body stability and maintenance of calming thoughts...
#fieldworkfail #gonechimping 🧪
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In other news - it is remarkable how many parts of a car you can just bypass when they fall off.
Today’s bush mechanics lesson - how to circumvent a busted fuel line!
#Guinea #gonechimping #MaybeDontTravelWithCat 🧪
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A grey car with the entire wheel and drum missing
Giving our new RA the full Guinean fieldwork experience : no visa, no luggage, no wheel 🤣
No worries! 💪🧪
#gonechimping #fieldworkfail @mbchimp.bsky.social
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A carefully folded set of leaves on the muddy floor with a bic pen for scale - first Waibira leaf sponge at the main water hole!
So pretty, so pointy.. A tiny iridescent blue green wasp with a large sting
Oops.. A faded photo of a person lying down with a catheter in their left hand
A black and white shot of a very elderly female chimpanzee in the Budongo Forest - Nambi, grand dame of team Sonso
It’s already been a rollercoaster start to #2025 so a little #gonechimping #fieldwork photo dump while I hop from East to West.. 🧪🐵
1. Leaf tools are the best tools #fightme
2. So pretty, so pointy
3. Oops..
4. Just you n me now kiddo; Nambi, grand dame of #teamSonso
#Uganda #Budongochimps
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A young female chimpanzee gazes into the distance in the Budongo forest, Uganda
#teamWaibira ladies : very demure, very mindful…
Not like those Sonso hooligans..
#gonechimping #budongochimps 🧪
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A man in a field uniform lounges along a low branch in a forest as low golden sunlight shines through the trees
No matter how intense the day there’s always something tranquil about the last golden hour, waiting for the chimps to decide its nesting time, watching the sunlight drip from the branches..
#gonechimping #budongochimps #uganda 🧪
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It is impossible not to resort to cheesy cliches but this is just a soul-achingly breathtakingly beautiful night in the forest surrounded by a galaxy of fireflies, having what I can only assume is the most spectacular end of year orgy 😂
#gonechimping #budongoforest 🧪
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Fieldwork Christmas this year included rescuing several pairs of knickers & a sock from the trees because the colobus monkeys at camp are little fiends with a jones for laundry detergent & decided to decorate 😂
Pretty sure this was not on my last risk assessment 🙈
#gonechimping #budongochimps 🧪
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A camera trap installed on a tree in the Budongo forest, with an orange backpack behind it
Figured what better way for #teamWaibira to mark this momentous occasion than the inaugural installation of the 24/25 dry season 25L trap 🥳🤓😂
#Budongo #gonechimping 🧪
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Bugoma field connection is abysmal at the best of times but when the forest sends surprise-hornets to your one teeny tiny network spot it feels like it’s getting a tad personal 😂
Ill just be over here swearing until I can feel my arm again 😑
#fieldworkfail #gonechimping #BugomaPrimates
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A laptop and coffee on a desk in front of a view out onto a sunlit forest scene
Quarantine, so close but not quite back in the field… at least it’s easier to tackle R2 comments daydreaming on this view 💚
#quarantine #gonechimping #bugomaprimates 🧪
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Large colourful field duffles packed jenga style on the passenger seat of a very small car
Tons of space 😂😂 (maybe a good job the driver is 5’5” tho..)
#jenga #fiat500 #gonechimping #fieldwork 🧪
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Hi Sciensky! I’m a primatologist that explores cognition, communication, & culture in wild apes. Follow along for ape (& ele) science, plus random posting of assorted fieldwork adventuring, floof pics, hot sauce, whisky, & nice bits of rock..
#wildmindslab #teamGesture #goneChimping 🤘👋🫰🐵🧪
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Ah yes, the familiar 3am fieldwork road game of: is it a bike or a car with one light out coming at us in the middle of the road, and - if so - is it the left or right… Gonna have to remember to add it to the risk assessment 😅🤞
#fieldwork #gonechimping #Guinea 🧪
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A plane wing is visible above an areal view of reddish orange sand and rocks
I fly through the desert on a plane with no name, it feels good to be out of the rain..
Not gonna lie 48hrs in Scottish ‘summer’ and I’m real glad to be migrating South again!! 🤣
#fieldwork #gonechimping #mauritania
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A male chimpanzee relaxes sitting on a liana looking up into the forest canopy
Just chilling with the boys (after they force marched me straight off territory north on my last morning to have a little verbal spat with the neighbours because I guess I hadn’t done enough hiking with them this trip 🙄)
#teamWaibira #gonechimping #fieldwork #BudongoChimps 🧪
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