Zanzibar Red Colobus Project

The spongy creatures cleaning Zanzibar's oceans As ocean temperatures rise, women in Zanzibar turn to natural sea sponge farming to stay afloat.

Beautifully filmed piece about sponge farming along Zanzibar’s coast from the BBC.

16.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Working on our brochures and poster about the colobus!

08.07.2025 04:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

08.07.2025 04:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

30.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back for more parasitology lab work at ZALIRI!

30.06.2025 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

25.06.2025 04:53 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

We're delighted to announce the winner of our most recent Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Award: Molly Alum. 🎉

24.06.2025 13:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Camp Group foraging in the shambas (agro-fallow fields) this evening

21.06.2025 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An afternoon in the shambas following Camp Group: @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social @hannahfrog.bsky.social and @owenstorer.bsky.social

21.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

PhD students @hannahfrog.bsky.social from UCSB and @owenstorer.bsky.social from @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social chilling at our Jozani base discussing colobus science and such.

17.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

A single young female passing through camp this morning to nibble on some foliage. She might be at an age where shes looking to join a new group and moves around on her own for a bit.

17.06.2025 07:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are now on @bsky.app! Follow us for updates on our work in the field, studying the endangered and endemic Zanzibar red colobus monkeys!! #primates #primatology

12.06.2025 02:12 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1