The Fourth Gashaka Field Day

The Fourth Gashaka Field Day
"Exploring & Protecting West Africa's Biodiversity"

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Whitelands Campus, Roehampton University London

Morning (Gilbert Scott Room)

10:00 Volker Sommer (UCL) Welcome & Launching: "Primates of Gashaka" (Springer 2011) & Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Conservation Action Plan

10:20 Catherine Barton (Chester Zoo) Conservation in Action: The North of England Zoological Society's Field Programmes

10:40 Caroline Ross, James Higham, David Macgregor Inglis, Ann MacLarnon, Ymke Warren, Julia Lehmann (Roehampton University, London) Sociality and Female Reproductive Success of Olive Baboons

11:00 Julia Lehmann, Caroline Ross (Roehampton) Who's the Boss? A Network Approach to Baboon Social Complexity

11:20 Break - delegates to get own refreshments

11:50 Nienke Alberts, Julia  Lehmann, Stuart Semple  (Roehampton) Social Networking for Baboons: Associations and Interaction

12:10 Valeria Montano  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) Chimpanzee Malaria Vectors and Parasites in the Gashaka Park: A Preliminary Study

12:30 Emma Bailey, Rebecca Boulton, Nicole Thompson & Emily Creaser (Roehampton & UCL) Snapshots From Current Masters Projects on Gashaka Baboons: Parasites, Symmetry, Health & Teeth

12:50 Ann MacLarnon, Volker Sommer, Jackie Ellis, Adeelia Goffe, James Higham, Patrick Tkaczynski & Caroline Ross (Roehampton) Is Gashaka Stressful for Baboons?

13:10 Lunch - delegates to get own refreshments

Afternoon (Room 1014)

14:00 Emily Lodge, Caroline Ross, Ann MacLarnon (Roehampton) Energy Balance and Urinary c-peptides: Assessing the Energetic Status of Nigerian Olive Baboons

14:20 Daniel Weaver, Peter Shaw, Claire Ozanne (Roehampton) Vertical Stratification of Diptera Insects in a Nigerian Tropical Forest: Seasonal Effects of Rainfall

14:50 Andrew Fowler, Claudia Menzel, Claudio Tennie & Barbara Fruth (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Leaf -swallowing in Pan: Origins of Self-medication?

15:10 Break - delegates to get own refreshments

15:30 Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Oliver Allon and Volker Sommer (Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Department of Anthropology, University College London) Ants and Apes: Army Ant Harvesting Strategies of Nigerian Chimpanzees

15:50 David MacGregor Inglis, Caroline Ross & Stuart Semple (Roehampton) Olive Baboons Sensitive to the Attentional States of Others: Evidence from the Wild

16:10 Suzanne Harvey & Thomas Roberts (UCL) Growing Pains: Ontogenesis of Olive Baboon Infants

16:30 Gonçalo Jesus & Ana Luiza Teixeira de Freitas (UCL, Goldsmiths) From Apes to Art: Damián Ortega's Take on Tools

16:50 Caroline Ross (Roehampton) Closing Remarks

17:00 Drinks Reception, sponsored by GPP

18:00 Visit to Local Pub

Local Organizer: Dr. Caroline Ross, Centre for Research in Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Life Sciences, Roehampton University

DIRECTIONS: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/about/location/index.asp (Whitelands College,
Roehampton University,
Holybourne Avenue
London SW15 4JD)

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