Crickette Sanz

Crickette Marie Sanz is a professor, naturalist, explorer, and field biologist notable for her work on primates and great apes in the Republic of the Congo.[1]

Background and career

Sanz received her BS and MS in experimental psychology from Central Washington University,[2] followed by her PhD in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently a professor of biological anthropology.[1]

In 2003, Sanz and field researcher David B. Morgan encountered a naive population of chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle. They did not observe the documented aggression and warlike behaviors previously recorded by Jane Goodall, but instead a curious and friendly population they felt could be "...watch[ed] for 20 years to see what normal behavior really is for chimpanzees."[3]

Sanz has appeared on television in documentaries about great apes.

Sanz's insights have included observations of novel tool use,[4] documentation of the progress of simian foamy virus, and tracking populations using tools like genomics.[5]

Awards
  • 2019 - Ai's Scarf / Women-in-Primatology Award [6]

Selected publications
  • 2013: Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107011199

References
  1. "Crickette Sanz". Department of Anthropology. Washington University in St. Louis. May 4, 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  2. staff, Tidings (2018-05-29). "Speaker series features talk on wild chimpanzees and gorillas". Ashland Tidings. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  3. "Top Anthropology Stories of 2003". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  4. Thorp, H. Holden (2020-07-10). "Monumental patience". Science. 369 (6500): 121. Bibcode:2020Sci...369..121T. doi:10.1126/science.abd6799. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32646974.
  5. Campbell, Tayte P.; Sun, Xiaoqing; Patel, Vishal H.; Sanz, Crickette; Morgan, David; Dantas, Gautam (June 2020). "The microbiome and resistome of chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans across host lifestyle and geography". The ISME Journal. 14 (6): 1584–1599. doi:10.1038/s41396-020-0634-2. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 7242348. PMID 32203121.
  6. "Sanz recognized with Women-in-Primatology award". Washington University in St. Louis. 12 July 2019.
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