Today, Dr. Ammie Kalan (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) talks about her research on chimpanzee acoustic communication, conservation and culture.

What drove Ammie to pursue animal research and conservation in the very beginning? How variable is chimpanzee communication? Is there also cultural variation Ammie has seen out in the field? How has technology advanced the science of primatological behavior studies? What anthropogenic challenges are facing great apes in the wild right now, and how does Ammie think people can help?

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Show notes

You can find Ammie on Twitter. She can also be contacted through the citizen science project called Chimp&See (you can also watch videos of the animals on there).

Ammie has worked with the Tai Chimpanzee Project, the Greater Mahale Ecosystem Research and Conservation center in Tanzania, and the Chimbo Foundation in Boe, Guinea-Bissau.

Finally, she recommends people visit the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation website too, to found out more about how to support western African chimpanzee conservation.

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