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Awash National Park Baboon Research Project, Washington University School of Medicine

Field Study

Awash National Park Baboon Research Project, Washington University School of Medicine



Project Director: Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy, co-director (other co-directors: Dr. CliffordJ. Jolly and Dr. Shimelis Beyene)

Contact Person: Jane Phillips-Conroy , baboon@thalamus.wustl.edu , Phone: 1-314-362-3396 Fax: 1-314-362-3446 E-mail: baboon@thalamus.wustl.edu

Mailing address: Box 8108, 660 S. Euclid Ave , St. Louis , Missouri 63110 Awash National Park, Ethiopia

Research Objectives: To examine comparatively the behavioral, anatomical, physiological and ecological adaptations of anubis and hamadryas baboons, and to elucidate the genetic structure and dynamics of the natural hybrid zone between them. To examine the natural history and genetic structure of a sympatric population of grivet monkeys, and its interaction with the SIV virus.

Field Positions and Volunteers: None anticipated in the near future

Species Studied: Papio hamadryas anubis, Papio hamadryas hamadryas, P.h.anubis-P.h.hamadryas hybrids, Cercopithecus aethiops

Other Species Found At Site: Colobus guereza

Affiliations: New York University, Washington University, Addis Ababa University,Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Organization

Project Begin/End Dates: 1972-ongoing

Comments: The project is co-directed by Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy (address above); Dr. Clifford J. Jolly, Dept. of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, 1-212-998-8574, cjj1@is.nyu.edu; and Dr. Shimelis Beyene, CARE-Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Other research personnel are Larissa Swedell (P.h.hamadryas only), Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, filoha@yahoo.com; Jacinta Beehner, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63110, jbeehner@artsci.wustl.edu; and Thore Bergman, Dept. of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63110, tbergman@artsci.wustl.edu.

Entry created: 2000-03-02
Review requested: 2007-02-27
Entry last reviewed: 2000-03-29

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