I couldn't be more proud of PhD students @mariannepaisley.bsky.social @perrinetheroude.bsky.social who just returned from 4 months of fieldwork in Gabon. Their research aims to help us understand stress in great apes. University of Sussex 🦍 🦧 🐵 #primate #stress #wellbeing #gorilla #chimpanzee

Movie night for the chimps at Lekedi! 🍿🐵 #fieldwork We're using our emotive video stimuli to understand how it affects changes in facial blood flow #thermalimaging Excited to see what we find! #wellbeing #research #uniofsussex @perrinetheroude.bsky.social 📸 @gillyforrester.bsky.social

And that's a wrap on my first human study! ✅ I am so grateful for these three, absolute dream team! We've been spending the last few weeks attempting to stress humans out, and seeing how it looks on our thermal camera 📸Verrry curious to see the results, but for now, we celebrate! 🍻