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Callum Carpenter
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MPhil student in Wildlife Conservation researching chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau. MRes Primate Biology, Behaviour and Conservation.
Was lucky enough to capture these photos on the way back from the field last week. A group of ~12 chimpanzees crossing a road inside Cantanhez NP, Guinea-Bissau. This was metres from a village, highlighting how humans and chimpanzees share the land across their range.
#Chimpanzees #Primatology
October 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Some of the primate residents of the Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 spotted together during the field yesterday. Temminck’s Red Colobus (Piliocolobus badius temminckii), King Colobus (Colobus polykomos) and Campbell’s Monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli) #primates 🐵 #Guinea-Bissau #primatology
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sharing some footage of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) from our camera trapping efforts across various protected areas in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 this #WorldChimpanzeeDay #ChimpanzeeDay2025 @derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🇬🇼 Glad to report another successful fieldwork expedition in the Dulombi National Park working with local guides and the government’s wildlife division IBAP on collecting eDNA samples in our attempts to detect the critically endangered Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Exciting to be able to share our ongoing work using novel eDNA techniques to detect the western chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
@derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social @joanachimpa.bsky.social

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
How DNA extracted from forest air could help protect one of West Africa's rarest animals
www.discoverwildlife.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Excited to get started on our second round of fieldwork surveying chimpanzees here in Guinea-Bissau - this time in the remote Boé National Park. Special thank you to the Chimbo Foundation for hosting us at their research camp. @derbyuni.bsky.social #Chimpanzee #Conservation #Fieldwork
February 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Welcome to the official page for the Primate Society of Great Britain! Follow for information about primatology, grants, meetings, and more!
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm
December 8, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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In a devastating blow to wolves and science-based conservation, European Union member states have chosen fear-mongering and anti-wolf rhetoric over facts. Today, members of the Bern Convention voted to downgrade the status of wolves across the EU from "strictly protected" to "protected."
European countries vote to give farmers more freedom to shoot wolves
The decision by Bern Convention members is a major win for the EU and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
www.politico.eu
December 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Another packed week of fieldwork here at the Lagoas de Cufada National Park in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
#primatology #chimpanzee #Guinea-Bissau #fieldwork #conservation
November 21, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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I'm still adding as I find more primatology peeps! Here is what I have so far!
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM