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BOB HIRSHON (host):
Watching chimps for science. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.If you love chimpanzees, now’s your chance to help out biologists who study their behavior. A new citizen science project called “Chimp & See” needs volunteers to watch video clips of wild chimpanzees in habitats across Africa, and document what the animals are up to. Project manager Mimi Arandjelovic of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology says it can all be done via the internet.
MIMI ARANDJELOVIC (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology):
We have about 200,000 video clips and this is pretty daunting to document what is on these videos on our own.
HIRSHON:
But with a cadre of volunteers around the world, the videos can be processed much faster. Lucky volunteers might catch a glimpse of chimpanzees cracking nuts with stones or digging for termites with sticks. To join the project, visit www.chimpandsee.org. I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.