We made our funding goal! Thank you.

Apr 20, 2022

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We made our funding goal! Thank you.Dear Project Backers,
*You* did it! And we are so grateful! Thanks to your superhuman generosity, we have reached our funding goal, and Emily will be headed to Puerto Rico to study the macaques there in May. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
We're well on the way to starting this project: We've gotten ethics approval for our study protocol and Emily has submitted her medical clearance forms required to work at Cayo Santiago. Once this paperwork is finalised, Emily will be getting on a flight to Puerto Rico and learning monkey IDs soon after that. We'll send you updates from the field as the project progresses. We can't wait to share what we find out with you!
Thanks again, and watch this space!
Alecia 

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Jarek FrancikBacker

All the best! I am truly interested in Mammal and Primates psychology (not professionally), so I'm looking forward to you sharing your findings!

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About This Project

Do primate mothers grieve?

University College London

Do primates understand death? Can they grieve? When a primate baby dies, often the mother will carry its corpse, in some cases for weeks. Some suggest this is evidence of grief. But we can look for other markers of grief, like those that humans show: depression, loss of appetite and lethargy. In this study, we will conduct a field study of macaques to quantify mothers' behavioural responses to the deaths of their infants and search for evidence of grief.