Honorable Mention: Watchful Eye

Photography by Kathryn Coates, doctoral student,
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Uma is a hybrid between two monkey species, the red-tailed monkey and the blue monkey. Her social group is found in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Uma's physical features suggest that she has more blue monkey ancestry than red-tailed monkey, which provides valuable information when trying to understand trait variation in a long-standing hybrid population.
Mentor: Kate Detwiler, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters