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Naturalist, explorer, and field biologist

Crickette Marie Sanz is a professor, naturalist, explorer, and field biologist notable for her work on primates and great apes in the Republic of the Congo.

Background and career

Sanz received her BS and MS in experimental psychology from Central Washington University, followed by her PhD in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently a professor of biological anthropology.

In 2003, Sanz and field researcher David B. Morgan encountered a naive population of chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle. They did not observe the documented aggression and warlike behaviors previously recorded by Jane Goodall, but instead a curious and friendly population they felt could be "...watch for 20 years to see what normal behavior really is for chimpanzees."

Sanz has appeared on television in documentaries about great apes.

Sanz's insights have included observations of novel tool use, documentation of the progress of simian foamy virus, and tracking populations using tools like genomics.

Awards

  • 2019 - Ai's Scarf / Women-in-Primatology Award

Selected publications

  • 2013: Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107011199

References

  1. ^ "Crickette Sanz". Department of Anthropology. Washington University in St. Louis. May 4, 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  2. staff, Tidings (2018-05-29). "Speaker series features talk on wild chimpanzees and gorillas". Ashland Tidings. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  3. "Top Anthropology Stories of 2003". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  4. Thorp, H. Holden (2020-07-10). "Monumental patience". Science. 369 (6500): 121. Bibcode:2020Sci...369..121T. doi:10.1126/science.abd6799. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32646974.
  5. Campbell, Tayte P.; Sun, Xiaoqing; Patel, Vishal H.; Sanz, Crickette; Morgan, David; Dantas, Gautam (June 2020). "The microbiome and resistome of chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans across host lifestyle and geography". The ISME Journal. 14 (6): 1584–1599. Bibcode:2020ISMEJ..14.1584C. doi:10.1038/s41396-020-0634-2. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 7242348. PMID 32203121.
  6. "Sanz recognized with Women-in-Primatology award". Washington University in St. Louis. 12 July 2019.

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