Kathelijne Koops (2006) and fellow researchers at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies have discovered evidence that some wild chimpanzees in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains use tools to cut their food into smaller, more chewable bits.
The research, which has been published in the journal Primates, has been picked up the BBC and the New York Daily News.
Gates Cambridge Scholar Simone Eringfeld [2022] has just released a podcast series, Antarctica Calling, based on her PhD research which invites listeners to connect more deeply to the frozen continent. […]
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has won a prestigious prize for his book on his travels in Alaska at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. Ben Weissenbach’s book North to the […]
Nurul Huda Aslari Effendy [2026] – or Huda – is a monkey whisperer. She grew up with monkeys snatching food from her garden and spent long hours watching them on […]
Experts from around the world gathered in Cambridge last week for a conference on the history of the distinction between the categories of refugee and migrant. The Fung Global Fellows […]
