All right, everybody, this is Ellen Weatherford, and I am here, as always, with just the zoo of us, and this is Ellen Weatherford, and I am here, as always, with just the zoo of us.

And this week, we're talking to a brand new friend.

This is Patsy DeLacey.

Say hi, Patsy.

Hi.

Nice to meet you, everyone.

It's nice to hear from you.

I'm really excited, first of all, about the animal that we're talking about today,

and second of all, to hear from you, because you study some really cool stuff. So I would love it

if you could take just a second to introduce yourself to our buddies. Sure. So as you said before,

my name is Patsy, and I'm a PhD student at the University of Michigan. So I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And I'm in

the psychology department and then within that, the biosecology area. And I study gelata monkeys.

So they're the species of monkey that lives in Ethiopia, which is in Africa. And yeah, I'm really

excited to talk to you about them today. That's awesome. So what kind of work do you do with the gelattas? Like when you say that you study them, like what does that look like? Does that look like field work or lab work or like give us an idea?

So I really like that I can do both. So I travel to Ethiopia and collect data there. So we have a field site in the Simeon Mountains, which is in the

north part of the country. And so I go there with this project called the Simeon Mountains

Jolada Research Project and stay at the field station there. And then I go out. We find the monkeys

in the morning at like 7 or 8 o'clock when they come up from the cliff and then follow them throughout the day. I collect behavioral data on them. They're really fun to follow their social lives. And we also collect poop and pea samples from them. So those are like non-invasive methods of studying things like genetics and hormones.

So the lab work comes when I come back to the United States.

So we ship those samples back.

And then at my lab here at the University of Michigan do hormone assays.

And then I've done a little bit of genetics things with a collaborator who was at University of Washington, but now is at University of

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