Elise started doing field research in Namibia in 2005 on the Tsaobis baboons, who face the challenge of surviving on the edge of the Namib Naukluft.

She is now based at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier (France), exploring questions around the complexity and development of social behaviour, using immersion into baboon societies as a primary methodological design.

Since 2000, and with the continuous support of Gobabeb, she co-directs the Tsaobis Baboon Project, a long-term study monitoring the ecology, demography and behaviour of a wild population of chacma baboons located in Tsaobis Nature Park, Erongo District, Namibia. She returns to Namibia every year, and visits Gobabeb regularly, often accompanied by the Tsaobis field team.

Link to her personal website : https://elisehuchard.mystrikingly.com/

Link to her academic website : https://isem-evolution.fr/en/membre/huchard/

Link to the Tsaobis Baboon Project website : http://tsaobisbaboonproject.org/

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