Urban Vervet Project
@UrbanVervet
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The Urban Vervet Project studies the behavioral & cognitive flexibility of an urbanized population of vervet monkeys at the Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa
Simbithi Eco Estate
Joined July 2023
Last week our new on-site manager Tobias Süess led @SimbithiEco’s Environmental Talk on the population dynamics of social mole-rats—thanks to all who joined! And a warm welcome to Linda Prince Lukhele, local South African, joining our field team with vervet fieldwork experience.
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Busy week at Simbithi! We had the pleasure of hosting Amy and Molly from Wild Connection (Nambiti Research Camp), as well as Alba Motes and @RachelAHarrison from the Inkavu Vervet Project. Great to exchange ideas and have some field time with you all!
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We remember Dr. Jane Goodall (1934–2025), whose work reshaped primatology and inspired generations. At UVP, her legacy guides us in studying curiosity and coexistence with wildlife. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
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🚨NEW Pre-print 🚨Here you can read about our latest findings on Monkey-Dog Interactions. 🐒🦮🐒🐩Living with urban fear: vervet monkey response to an evolutionary new predator https://t.co/ADJmd6x5Vm
@KoneenSaatio @SimbithiEco @ForssSofia
biorxiv.org
Humans have facilitated contacts between prey and predator species that have originally not co-evolved, reshuffling the prey-predator arms race. How do prey cope with an evolutionarily new predation...
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Field NEWS! Our new onsite manager Tobias Süess has started in @SimbithiEco in company of his wife Mieneke, who is local South African. Also last week our new MSc student Yke Snijder started his field work on the monkeys strategies and relations when they "raid" human structures.
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n the beginning of September the UVP hosted a few days with our collaborators from the Sinergia project on gut-microbiom axis & behavior. Looking forward to see what the urban diet reveals in terms of health 🐒🍕🐒 @UrbanVervet Project @SimbithiEco
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Excited to share our latest paper from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that encounters with wild red #foxes could be an important gateway to broader #nature connectedness in people, particularly in cities. 🦊🍃🏙️ Link here:
tandfonline.com
Frequent and positive wildlife experiences can strengthen people’s physical and mental connection with nature, potentially improving public health and pro-environmental behaviors. Red foxes are the...
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📢 JOB alert 📢 soon we will open applications for a new camp manager @TaiChimpProject. Starting January 1, 2026, the job is for 2 years with 1 year prolongation possibility in the middle of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Please stay tuned and RT
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Our project manager gave her insights from the UVP to the South African Local newspaper, read the article here:
Simbithi study reveals health crisis in urban monkeys caused by human food
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Very pleased to share our latest #publication showing that differences in #innovation may shape finer-scale niche differences between two generalist species: wild #raccoons and #opossums 🦝🧠🧩 @KristyAnna9 Link here:
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Welcome to the lush green Simbithi to Clementine Serre! Clementine, is a real fieldwork hero, who has just spent 8 months researching meerkats at @KalahariRC with the meerkat cognition project @ForssSofia and now adds on her expertise by joining the UVP for the rest of the year.
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Wonderful PhD opportunities with the ✨amazing✨ @APE_Group_UZH 🐵
📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate
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On July 4th our close collaborator and guest researcher at Simbithi @camilla_cenni will share her interesting work on urbanized macaques in Bali - come listen to how anthropogenic exposure impacts tool use and innovativeness! @SimbithiEco
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Urban animals, like vervet monkeys use their cognitive capacities to solve problems in their urban habitats. In this new paper @wild_cognition & @ForssSofia discuss if large brained species are pre-adapted with cognitive tool kits to exploit urban niches? https://t.co/olruMuNPeC
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🚨You can now find our latest results in this new Pre-print by Barnes et al. It explains how anthropocentric experiences by vervet monkeys relate to their behavioural flexibility, assessed in a multi-step foraging experiment at @SimbithiEco doi:
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Happy Friday from team cognition group selfie - with the bold little fella in the back! @camilla_cenni @ForssSofia & Valeria Simenova. @SimbithiEco
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Incoming Wednesday @ForssSofia will be on site at @SimbithiEco give the June month's Environmental Talk - come join us!
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Wind of Change at UVP: We thank Ntaki Senoge from University of Kwzulu Natal for his dedicated 10 months with us. And with a Farewell comes a new Welcome: @camilla_cenni joining us for the upcoming three months in Simbithi @SimbithiEco - Stay tuned!
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📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️That's the way to start a new week. New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. https://t.co/wT8tvnoBzK
connectsci.au
Urbanization is one of the most important global drivers of environmental change altering biological communities. Our study showed that small mammal commun
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We are very happy for @MelissaArdila_V an UVP Alumni who recently presented the project at ASAB Spring Meeting in Liverpool.
Very grateful for the chance to share some of my work in @UrbanVervet , exploring the fascinating interactions between 🐒 and 🦌 in urbanized ecosystems!- and excited to hopefully be back next year with results from my PhD! @ASABSpring2025
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