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Volunteer field assistant for chacma baboon research in South Africa
Hiring Organization:
Baboon Research Unit - University of Cape Town
Date Posted:
2011-04-07
Position Description:
Enthusiastic volunteers with training and/or experience in field biology are invited to assist with data collection from May 25th to July 3rd, 2011. Fieldwork will see volunteers following a troop of free-living, wild-foraging chacma baboons through the hills around Cape Hangklip. While doing so, they will be expected to make detailed observations on the animals’ behavioural- and feeding ecology, and periodically record the location of the troop using a hand-held GPS unit.
Qualifications/Experience:
Experience and/or training in field biology, behavioural ecology and/or primatology.
Salary/funding:
None
Term of Appointment:
25 May - 3 July 2011
Application Deadline:
18 May 2011
Comments:
Volunteers must be able to participate for the full five-and-a-half week period and must be able to cover the costs of food and accommodation, and of transport to and from Cape Town.
E-mail Matthew for information on the project if you wish to know more.
Contact
Information:
Matthew Lewis
South Africa
Telephone Number:
+2721 650 3645
Website:
http://www.baboonsonline.org/bru/
E-mail Address:
matthew.lewis@uct.ac.za
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