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@benfink

primatologist 🦍 🌳 💀 🔬 anthropologist

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benfink
@benfink Sep 23, 2018, 8:00 PM UTC

(re)introduce yourself: Hello from primatologist, scientist

#### Beginning a year in the chimpanzee forest. Hello from Kibale National Park, Uganda # # # https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXVWeVsy2W15Hk9sYDcbFkCWiEzTgQancLpDCSXyJUnyC/received_243898862982342.jp…

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benfink
@benfink Sep 23, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

Notes from the forest: chimp teeth photography

Is taking photos of chimps research? It is if they're yawning. Hi steemit! I'm a doctoral student studying wild chimpanzees in Uganda. I'd love to share some bits of chimp science and forest life wit…

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benfink
@benfink Aug 19, 2017, 3:58 PM UTC

Chimpanzee expedition : babies n' names

#### With over 180 chimpanzees to remember, names matter. Lucky us, there are more chimps to identify each year! Greetings from the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project. Here’s a little research update from a do…

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benfink
@benfink Aug 19, 2017, 3:45 PM UTC

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benfink
@benfink Aug 5, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

Chimpanzee expedition : finding the missing apes

#### What do you think happens when an old chimpanzee goes missing for months on end? It was a mystery until a few days ago. Greetings from the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project. Here’s a little research upda…

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benfink
@benfink Jun 29, 2017, 6:55 PM UTC

The chimpanzee elders : Field photography

Reaching ages over 60 years, chimpanzees are one of the few animals that approach human longevity. While we've long viewed old age in humans as unique, a recent study shows that the difference betwee…

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benfink
@benfink Jun 23, 2017, 2:08 PM UTC

Chimps eat what?! Notes from the field

#### The group marched in silence until a scream broke everyone into a sprint. The hunt was on. Another noise I didn’t recognize joined the chimpanzees’ pants and shrieks. The alarms from red-colobus…

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benfink
@benfink Jun 20, 2017, 10:27 AM UTC

Expedition chimpanzee: arrival

Greetings from Kibale National Park, Uganda! I’m a researcher studying the lives of chimpanzees (my introduceyourself). Specifically, I follow the Ngogo chimps, a huge community of about 200 individu…

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benfink
@benfink May 4, 2017, 11:05 PM UTC

Biggest misconceptions of human evolution

### How did humans evolve? What happened in the last 6 million years that made us so unique? #### Hi steemit! I recently introduced myself as a student and researcher in biological anthropology. In m…

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benfink
@benfink May 4, 2017, 12:22 AM UTC

Hello from primatologist, anthropologist, educator

#### There's lots of wonderful and quirky science content on steemit, I thought I'd jump right in! Here's my quick personal introduction with a focus on my research. #### I'm a graduate student getti…

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