Welcome to Mathematical Treefort!

Dear Chimp&See friends and family,

We are so happy to say that with all your help we were able to finish the massive Florid Postern site! With almost 130,000 video clips viewed and annotated! Thank you! The trottersID workflow is also completed and monkeysee is about 80% complete. We will keep that open for the weeks to come.

But in the meantime, we have opened a new site – Welcome to Mathematical Treefort – we are back to central Africa and we are deep in chimp AND gorilla territory! The chimps here are known to use tools for termite fishing so look out for tool use. There is also a low density of elephants at this site and it is a known primate hotspot, keep your eyes peeled for drills, mandrills and white-collared mangabeys!

If you want a break from species annotation we are still working on the last of chimp matching from Florid Postern and our Green Snowflake unique chimps mini-project is humming along in the Talk pages. We won’t start chimp matching yet at the new site, but feel free to comment under any interesting videos you find. You can use the #dailyzoo tag for any videos you love, to flag it for others to watch.

Thanks for being with us at Chimp&See and if you haven’t visited in a while, come back and have a peak at the new site!

Cheers, Mimi and the Chimp&See team

Great Progress!

During the past several years we have made great progress at Chimp&See with the help of our volunteers. We have tackled several sites, classified and tagged hundreds of thousands of videos. Our moderators cleaned up a lot of open animal and bird identifications and revised and improved our cheat sheets and field guides. We've added many helpful video tutorials on everything from classifying to chimp matching. Up to date, we identified 2,350 individual chimpanzees, and we were able to name almost one thousand of them, when we've found them twice or more. And we are far from finished!

All of this great work is done by our volunteers, who contribute their time and talents to the project. A big thank you to all of you who are part of our C&S family! Even if you haven’t been with us for a while, come back and join us and see what’s new! 

Our current site is called FloridPostern and to date 108,000 clips have been classified and there are less than 20’000 left to go - will you help us get to the end! Then it's on to the next site!

At FloridPostern, a dry site in the northern range of Western chimpanzees, you will find a lot of interesting and funny baboons. Or make the acquaintance of the hysterical hyraxes, who are masters of camouflage. Other animals may be found as well, like the nocturnal genet or the pretty Patas monkey. Did you know that C&S is also a birder's paradise? You will find a lot of birds in our 15-second videos. We even have a bird guide that contains the about 130 confirmed species we have encountered at C&S so far! Of course, you might also find the occasional chimp.

You see, Chimp&See holds something for every nature lover. Plus the satisfaction of contributing to chimpanzee research and conservation. We are looking forward to seeing you at chimpandsee.org. Thank you and have fun!

Mimi and the Chimp&See team