Researchers from Bangor University, UK & collaborators from other institutions, who study the endangered & endemic Zanzibar red colobus at Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park & other locations in Zanzibar. Posts by project director @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social
Zanzibar Red Colobus Project
Big ZRCP representation at the winter meeting of @primatesocietygb.bsky.social in Cardiff! Check out some photos from their presentations below!
Working on our brochures and poster about the colobus!
Beautifully filmed piece about sponge farming along Zanzibar’s coast from the BBC.
Back for more parasitology lab work at ZALIRI!
Great talk by @hannahfrog.bsky.social yesterday at @beps-bangor.bsky.social seminars! Full house and an interesting discussion of her preliminary findings on the ZRC physiological responses to habitat disturbance!
Camp Group foraging in the shambas (agro-fallow fields) this evening
Team photos from the last few days. In the field following the colobus and on the pitch playing a friendly students v field assistants football game.
Catching up with our Zanzibari collaborators at ZALIRI on the parasitology project- with Othman and his team. Owen and Hannah sharing some results from the lab work done in 2023 and 2024.
Many congratulations to Molly Allum! She studied the crop foraging behaviour of the Zanzibar red colobus here in Jozani last year for her third year dissertation at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social ! Great dissertation - currently working on making it into a journal article!
We're delighted to announce the winner of our most recent Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Award: Molly Alum. 🎉
Zanzibar Red Colobus Project
As ocean temperatures rise, women in Zanzibar turn to natural sea sponge farming to stay afloat.
