Ben Walton

@BenWalton10

Anthropology PhD, Durham. Using technology to understand baboon crop-foraging and tackle human wildlife conflict in South Africa. @iapetusDTP

Joined December 2012

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Ben Walton @BenWalton10 May 29, 2024

Great to see some nice coverage of our work using on-primate cameras to explore foraging and behaviour from a baboon-eye perspective! @Prof_R_Hill
news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar…

news.mongabay.com Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet What’s on the menu tonight? For one of the world’s largest species of monkeys, it’s likely to be antelope poop. This was among the findings from a study in which researchers attached collar cameras...

Ben Walton @BenWalton10 Jan 4, 2021

Baboon crop-foraging behaviour and space use in and around commercial farms in South Africa, with insights for improving crop protection. Looking forward to expanding on this in my PhD using higher resolution bio-loggers and a larger sample! #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com Insights into short‐ and long‐term crop‐foraging strategies in a chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) from... A GPS and accelerometer collar was deployed to understand crop-foraging by chacma baboons in South Africa. This gave insights into the spatiotemporal patterns of crop-foraging baboon behavior and...