Wednesday, November 1, 2023

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

Monday, November 21, 2022

Online Now! Chimp matching miniproject in collaboration with PantheraCats with photos from Niokolo Koba National Park!


 Let’s go! Our new chimp matching miniproject in collaboration with PantheraCats with photos from Niokolo Koba National Park is live! Join us and get into some chimp matching 🐵

Check it out at: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sassydumbledore/chimp-and-see-matching-miniproject-niokolo-koba/talk/5499/2670449


This project is hosted on its own chimp&see spin off site and will get updated as photos come in. This project will be a bit different than how we normally do things as it will be photos only, no videos, and the cameras are mostly set up to pick up the sides of animals, so we are in for a challenge! 


We're super excited about this new challenge and think its a great opportunity to get into chimp matching if you aren't already hooked :)


Tuesday, November 15, 2022

New chimp matching miniproject: Niokolo Koba National Park


We have a new chimp matching miniproject coming next week in collaboration with Panthera Cats with photos from Niokolo Koba National Park

read more about Panthera’s work here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/inside-the-race-to-save-west-africas-endangered-lions

We’ll start on November 21st and will post the link then!


Chimp&See in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Our amazing scimod Nuria's kids, Laura and Nora, were interviewed  about chimpandsee.org ! Thanks girls for taking the time to talk about your time with us and to Süddeutsche Zeitung for featuring our project 🙂


(English translation:

"We support the project Chimp&See. For this you have to watch videos from African forests on a website. They come from cameras that react to movements. They make so many videos that the researchers can't analyze everything on their own. The cameras are already triggered when a branch shakes or a bird flies across the frame. On many videos, nothing can be seen, but sometimes you can see chimpanzees. Then you have to describe how many animals can be seen and what they are doing. Baby chimpanzees are especially cute. Or when you can watch an ape cracking a nut or using a stone as a tool." )

Full article HERE


Thursday, June 9, 2022

Loango-Thea on the cover of Cell Genomics


So happy that Ozouga Chimps ' "Thea" of the Rekambo community in Loango National Park, Gabon  made the cover of Cell Press Cell Genomics  and is the ambassador for our recent paper on chimpanzee population histories "Fontsere et al (2022) Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history. Cell Genomics DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100133"

Thank you to Roland Hilgartner Wildlife Photographer and Author  for generously allowing the use of his photo!