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Selected TV & Media

Segment about our bioactive plant paper on BBC News (2024).

Deeper dive into our pharmacology paper from the AP (2024).

Highlight of our study on chimpanzee first-aid on BBC News (2025).

Short piece about my recent study on NBC News (2025).

In Print

On the Radio

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Selected Podcasts

A podcast for World Extreme Medicine in which we discuss fieldwork and the medicinal behaviors of our closest living relatives.

A chat with Neuroverse about my research, my background, and my winding scientific pathway.

An in-depth chat with Johnathan Benaiah about the mysteries of the Budongo Forest, conservation in Uganda, and the ecological importance of local knowledge.

A Primatologist and Space Architect walk into a futurist time capsule...

Selected Talks

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  • 2025: The Explorers Club Monday Night Lecture Series (NYC, US) "The Radical Act of Giving Nature Rights: Panel Discussion"

  • 2025: PaleoEvo Lecture Series (Oxford, UK) "Bark Feeding as a Possible Medicinal Behavior in Chimpanzees" 

  • 2024: The Explorers Club (London, UK) "My Time with the Budongo Chimpanzees" 

  • 2024: The European Federation of Primatology Conference (Lausanne, Switzerland) "Healthcare behaviors in the wild chimpanzees of Budongo Forest" 

  • 2024: University of Stirling (Sterling, Scotland) "A Shift in How We Study Great Ape Diets"

  • 2024: The Explorers Club HQ (NYC, US) "Chimpanzee Forest Pharmacies" 

  • 2023: International Primatological Society (Kuching, Malaysia) “Bark Stripping in Budongo Forest: Evaluating the Evidence for a Putative Self-Medicative Behavior”

  • 2023: Paleo Primate Field School (Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique) “Studying Primate Self-Medication Using Natural Historical Approaches”

  • 2023: American Society of Primatology (Reno, US) “Bark Stripping in Budongo Forest: Evaluating the Evidence for a Putative Self-Medicative Behavior”

  • 2023: Primate Society of Great Britain (Cambridge, UK) “Applying Collocation and APRIORI Analyses to Chimpanzee Diets: methods for investigating non-random food combinations in primate self-medication”

  • 2023: The Burn Meeting (St. Andrews, UK) “Applying Collocation and APRIORI Analyses to Chimpanzee Diets: methods for investigating non-random food combinations in primate self-medication”

  • 2022: Oxford Brookes Conservation Lecture Series (Oxford, UK) “Chimpanzee Self-Medication: Tackling Methodological Challenges with Interdisciplinary Solutions”

  • 2022: Oxford Anthropological Society Pub Series (Oxford, UK) “Ethical Debates in Zoopharmacognosy Research”

  • 2022: Primate Conversations Lecture Series (Oxford, UK) “Interpretating the ‘Goddess of Nature’ in Today’s World: How art, anthropology, and botany can be integrated into primate fieldwork” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPKKCF1R1Ao)

  • 2021: Yale Architecture School Lecture (New Haven, US) “Animal Houses: Hospitality in the Natural World”

Public Talks

A ~1 hour talk on the importance of natural history in primatological fieldwork, as part of the Primate Conversation Lecture Series at the University of Oxford.

A ~13 minute talk at the Explorers Club HQ in New York City in April 2024, where I discuss my research on wild chimpanzees and preview a short documentary I directed and produced with funding from the Explorers Club Expedition Grant. 

Upcoming Talks

  • The Armelagos Lecture at Emory University: October, 2025

Scientific Papers

 

Freymann E, Hobaiter C, Huffman MA, Klein H, Muhumuza G, Reynolds V, Slania NE, Soldati A, Yikii ER, Zuberbühler K and Carvalho S (2025) Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the Budongo chimpanzees. Front. Ecol. Evol. 13:1540922. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1540922

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​Wessling, E. G., Whiten, A., Soiret, S. K., Scholfield, K., Samuni, L., Rutz, C., Freymann, E.,… Sanz, C. (2025). Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1925), 20240143. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0143​​​​

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Freymann, E., Badihi, G., Hobaiter, C., Huffman, M., Muhumuza, G., Orbell, S., … Carvalho, C. (2024). The Adaptive Role of Bark in the Diet of Budongo Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). International Journal of Prim. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-024-00445-3
 

Freymann, E., Carvalho, S., Garbe, L. A., Dwi Ghazhelia, D., Hobaiter, C., Huffman, M. A., … Schultz, F. (2024). Pharmacological and behavioral investigation of putative self-medicative plants in Budongo chimpanzee diets. PLOS ONE, 19(6), e0305219. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305219
 

Freymann, E., d'Oliveira Coelho, J., Hobaiter, C., Huffman, M. A., Muhumuza, G., Zuberbühler, K., & Carvalho, S. (2024). Applying collocation and APRIORI analyses to chimpanzee diets: Methods for investigating nonrandom food combinations in primate self-medication. American journal of primatology, e23603. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23603
 

Freymann, E., Huffman, M. A., Muhumuza, G., Gideon, M. M., Zuberbühler, K., & Hobaiter, C. (2023). Friends in high places: Interspecific grooming between chimpanzees and primate prey species in Budongo Forest. Primates. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-023-01053-0
 

Soldati, A., Fedurek, P., Crockford, C., Adue, S., Akankwasa, J. W., Asiimwe, C., Freymann, E.,… Hobaiter, C. (2022). Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest. Primates, 63(5), 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-022-00999-x

©2025 by Elodie Freymann

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