***Updated!*** Meet our chimps: Pandora and [we need a name!]

Next up on our “Meet our chimps” series is a very special pair: adult female Pandora and her infant boy – whom we want to name here with you!

Pandora has a dark face and overall dark hair. She has a triangular bald spot above the rounded eyebrows and a slightly gray beard. Her infant is always carried on her back. His pronounced key hole-formed face and the big nostrils make him super adorable. Pandora and her littlun are always curious and very interested in the camera. They are the chimps who most often not only recognize and react to the camera, but getting very close to investigate thoroughly.

Pandora has been named by our volunteer hoothoot who said: “I would like to name her Pandora as she seems very curious. :) My biggest hope for her is that she won't repeat the mistake of her namesake and thus will stay away from tempting boxes or other things which could harm her and her family.” At least for our field season, we can exclude that any harm happened to them and for sure nothing came “out” of our camera traps!

As classification at the site has finished, we are starting to name the infants of clearly identified females. Pandora’s infant is first and we decided to go with a magical “Harry Potter” theme and want to let you decide: Should the infant's name be: Harry, Ron, or Draco? Please vote here until Saturday (April 22nd)!

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*** Update (April 23, 2017) ***

Thanks for voting in the infant naming poll and welcome Draco! We got 44 votes and closed now the poll. Almost half of your votes went to Draco, leaving Ron and especially Harry far away from any interference here. This huge majority vote was somehow unexpected, but you’re right: Draco is the perfect name for this curious and decisive little chimp.  

***Updated!*** Chimp&See Science Team "Ask Us Anything" April 25th

To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of ChimpandSee.org, the Chimp&See science team will host a special “Ask Us Anything” (AUA) event that will be held on Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 at https://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/boards/BCP000000u/discussions/DCP0001qor

Members of the science team will be online between 4 and 6 p.m. UTC to answer all the questions you might have about the project, its research questions, field work, preliminary results, lessons learned, and future directions. We're also happy to discuss our research, conservation and field experience so go ahead and Ask Us Anything :) To learn more about the science team beforehand, check out our Introductions, the PanAfrican Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee Website and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology website

For easier access, here again the scheduled time for the event (attention: it’s daylight saving time on the Northern hemisphere!): 4 p.m. UTC (Coordinated universal time is not on summer / daylight saving time!)

- 5 p.m. BST (London) 
- 6 p.m. CEST (Leipzig / Berlin) 
- 12 p.m. EDT (New York) 
- 9 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) 
- 2 a.m. AEST – (Melbourne. Sorry, it’s very early!)

The board will open on April 25th a few hours before the AUA starts so that you can post questions before the event starts if you want. If we don't get to your question during the AUA we will be sure to get to it in the days that follow and, of course, you can always ask chimp-related and other questions at the regular “Questions for the science team” board

***UPDATE***
Thanks everyone!! Those 2 hours FLEW right by!

What an awesome experience and thank you so much for the amazing questions and your participation! You can check out the whole AUA here: https://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/boards/BCP000000u

Meet our chimps: Waldemar

This brief series, marking the 2nd anniversary of Chimp&See, will introduce you to some of the most remarkable chimps at our recent Restless Star site in East Africa. They are members of the Eastern chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii and live at this site in a mountainous environment along with gorillas and elephants.

We first met Waldemar climbing down a tree and elegantly hopping over some scrubs in front of the camera. Immediately, we dubbed him the athlete of the group. He is easily identifiable with his roundish and friendly face and an unusual light nose and muzzle. His hair shines almost silvery in the sunlight. He is not the biggest of the males here, but he makes sure that he is always in the center of everybody’s attention. He is named after the German marathoner Waldemar Cierpinski.

Classifications at Restless Star are already finished, but we still have open matching discussions and want to identify and name more chimps.

If you want to get involved and see African wildlife from camera traps yourself, please come over to Chimp&See!

Chimp&See 2nd Anniversary Celebrations!!!

🎉🐵🎉 We are quickly approaching the 2nd Anniversary of Chimp&See, and invite YOU to help us celebrate! Leading up to, and beyond, our anniversary on April 22nd, please join us for these special activities we have planned:

- We'll have chimp naming polls in the days to come to help us choose names for some of our baby chimps!

- Through the end of this week, be sure to visit the Chimp and See blog for a special "Meet Our Chimps" series! Each post will focus on different fascinating chimps from the Restless Star site. If you missed them, here's a chance to catch up on the personalities and stories that kept us enchanted with Restless Star over the last year! We kick off with the first "Meet our chimps" with an introduction to Waldemar!

- On Tuesday, April 25th, join us on Talk for a Chimp and See "Ask Us Anything!" Members of the science team will be online between 4 and 6 p.m. UTC and answer all the questions you might have about the project, its research questions, lessons learned, and future directions. Specialists will also be on hand for questions about animals behavior, field research, and conservation.

- Now through Wednesday, April 26th, share your story! We want to learn about the fascinating volunteers who are making Chimp and See such a fun, successful project. Tell us how you got started, recount a favorite memory, or share a photo of your favorite find. You can read all the stories on the Chimp and See blog at the end of the month. Send us your story now! 

We hope you can join us for our celebration! And, of course, thank you again for continuing your amazing work of classifying and matching!!! Let's keep it going strong as we enter our third year of Chimp and See!  🎉🐵🎉

3 million classifications! Thank You!!!

We hit tonight three million classifications by almost 9,000 volunteers. A huge thank you to everyone taking the time to watch, classify, and discuss our videos. We could not do this without you!

It does not happen very often, but sometimes animals recognize our cameras and it seems as if they start watching us. Here is a small selection of different interested parties:

We want to say thank you and always love to see YOU here at Chimp&See!

Volunteer Stories - Coming Soon!

As you may know, April is a very special month at Chimp and See. It was nearly two years ago, on April 22nd, that our project kicked off here at Zooniverse, opening up the wilds of Africa for us to explore through our screens.  To celebrate this anniversary, we'll be collecting personal stories and messages from our volunteers to share here on the blog.  If you have a story of your own to share about your experience with Chimp and See, or want to learn more, here's the official announcement.

We also have some very special posts and other activities planned for our anniversary, so stay tuned!

almost at 3 million classifications!

Woohoo! only 50,000 more classifications needed to hit the 3 million mark!

2,950,000 pant hoots to you all for your help!!!