In the Media
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.

Selected TV & Media
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PBS News Hour - July, 2024
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ITVX News Segment on Chimpanzee Self-Medication - June, 2024
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ITV News Segment 1- June, 2024
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ITV News Segment 2 - June, 2024
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Channel 5 News at 5 (Live) - June, 2024
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BBC News Channel (Live) - June, 2024
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That's TV Oxford (Live) - June 2024
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The Associated Press - June, 2024
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Africa News - June, 2024
A segment about my work on BBC News.
A segment about my work from the AP.
In Print
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BBC News - June, 2024
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Science Magazine - June, 2024
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Washington Post - June, 2024
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The Independent - June, 2024
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CBS News - June, 2024
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New Scientist - June, 2024
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Yahoo News - June 2024
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AOL News - June 2024
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University of Oxford - June, 2024
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Mongabay - June, 2024
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BBC Discover Wildlife - June, 2024
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Muse Magazine (Cricket Media) - April, 2024
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Nord Kurier Newspaper (Germany) - March, 2022
On the Radio
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BBC Newsday (Live) - June 21st, 2024
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BBC 4 Today Programme (Live) (segment at 1hr: 42m) - June 21st, 2024
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BBC World Service News Hour (Live) - June 21st, 2024
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NPR/WNYC (Live) - June 21st, 2024
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RTE News Dublin (Live) - June 21st, 2024
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ABC News Australia - June 21st, 2024
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The Agenda, Dubai Eye - June 21st, 2024
Podcasts
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The Animal Sensemaker - (Episode) January, 2025
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World Extreme Medicine Podcast - (Episode) December, 2024
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EcoFlix's The Primate Podcast - (Episode) September, 2024
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New Scientist Podcast: (Episode #255) - June, 2024
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Art is...Podcast: (Episode #7) - August, 2024
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The Neuroverse Podcast: (Episode #79) - June, 2024
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The Paperless Podcast: (Episode #8) June, 2024
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.
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"
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2025: PaleoEvo Lecture Series (Oxford, UK) "Bark Feeding as a Possible Medicinal Behavior in Chimpanzees"
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2024: The Explorers Club (London, UK) "My Time with the Budongo Chimpanzees"
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2024: The European Federation of Primatology Conference (Lausanne, Switzerland) "Healthcare behaviors in the wild chimpanzees of Budongo Forest"
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2024: University of Stirling (Sterling, Scotland) "A Shift in How We Study Great Ape Diets"
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2024: The Explorers Club HQ (NYC, US) "Chimpanzee Forest Pharmacies"
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2023: International Primatological Society (Kuching, Malaysia) “Bark Stripping in Budongo Forest: Evaluating the Evidence for a Putative Self-Medicative Behavior”
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2023: Paleo Primate Field School (Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique) “Studying Primate Self-Medication Using Natural Historical Approaches”
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2023: American Society of Primatology (Reno, US) “Bark Stripping in Budongo Forest: Evaluating the Evidence for a Putative Self-Medicative Behavior”
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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”
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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”
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2022: Oxford Brookes Conservation Lecture Series (Oxford, UK) “Chimpanzee Self-Medication: Tackling Methodological Challenges with Interdisciplinary Solutions”
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2022: Oxford Anthropological Society Pub Series (Oxford, UK) “Ethical Debates in Zoopharmacognosy Research”
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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)
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2021: Yale Architecture School Lecture (New Haven, US) “Animal Houses: Hospitality in the Natural World”
Upcoming Talks
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The Armelagos Lecture at Emory University: October, 2025
Scientific Papers
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
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
Other Writing
"The Hassle of Caring" - Medium: https://medium.com/@elodiefreymann/the-hassle-of-caring-36b7e27721c8
"Who Are We To Them?" - Yale Paprika, Volume 8, Issue 05: March 31, 2023: https://yalepaprika.com/folds/fables/who-are-we-to-them