Angela van Doorn
Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cape Town
Angela van Doorn graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. While pursuing her degree, she assisted in research at the Infant Primate Research Laboratory and volunteered with primates at the Woodland Park Zoo. Upon graduating, Angela went to Tanzania to work as a member of the Animal Behaviour Research Unit team collecting behavioural data on yellow baboons in Mikumi National Park.
After living in Tanzania for over 4 years, pursuing other interests, Angela moved to Cape Town, South Africa where she completed a Master of Philosophy Degree in Environmental Management from the University of Cape Town in 2002. During her study, she was introduced to the baboons on the Cape Peninsula. Always interested in conservation, she was fascinated by the monitor project and its novel approach to reducing human-primate conflict. Seeing this as a wonderful opportunity to combine her behavioural experience with her newly acquired environmental management background she enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the Zoology Department at the University of Cape Town. Her project now studies the effects and the effectiveness of baboon monitors.
Angela completed her data collection in 2005 and is currently writing her thesis.
