The Budongo Forest Project 267Nick Newton-Fisher Senior scientist UK Chimp hunting Sept 03–Aug 04
Emily Bethell Ph.D. student Portsmouth Univ. Attention in chimps Jan–Apr 04
Kerry Slater Ph.D. student Pretoria Univ. Grooming in chimps Nov 03
Tyler Weldon Grad. student Oklahoma Univ. Kasokwa chimps Feb–May 04
Donald Cole Grad. student Oklahoma Univ. Kasokwa chimps Feb–May 04
Lisa Riley M.Sc. student Univ. Roehampton Primate niches Mar–Jun 04
Leela Hazzah Volunteer Kenya Mapping project May 04
Mary Reuling Volunteer Kenya Mapping project May 04
Christina Connolly M.Sc. student London Univ. — Private forests May–Jun 04
Imperial Coll.
Anita Stone M.Sc. student Univ Wales — Seed dispersal Jun–Aug 04
Bangor
Zarin Machanda Ph.D. student Harvard Univ. Chimps at Sonso Jun–Aug 04
Simon Townsend Undergrad. Oxford Univ. Male relationships in chimps Jul–Sept 04
Crystal Davis Undergrad. Stanford Univ. Mother–infant relations in Jul–Sept 04
chimpanzees
Zinta Zommers M.Sc. student Oxford Univ. Ape–human disease Aug–Sept 04
transmission
Valerie Kosheleff Grad. student Univ. S. California Arboreal vs. terrestrial Sept–Dec 04
habitat use
Table F.1: (continued)
Name Status From Area of interest Time at Budongo
The setting
The BFP has its base at the site of the old Budongo Sawmills in the heart of the forest; in 1991, with
help from USAID, we renovated two large wooden sawmill houses (see Fig. F.1), and built staff accom-
modation and ancillary facilities. Things did not always go smoothly; no sooner had we completed the
building of the staff housing than a tree fell on one of the houses and demolished it. Today the Project
employs 25 people, about half of whom live at camp, the other half coming in to work from nearby vil-
lages. Because the site of the Project is right in the forest, we are surrounded by wildlife and it takes less
than a minute to get from the breakfast table into the forest. The sounds of the forest wildlife at night
(tree hyraxes in particular) are amazing, and at dawn each day the black and white colobus monkeys
make a wonderful deep roaring sound all around camp as the dominant males of different groups
announce their territorial claims to each other. Chimpanzees can be heard most days as well as in the
middle of the night, and sometimes come right up to our camp.