Hiring Organization: Filoha Hamadryas Project, Queens College, City University of New York Date Posted: 2018-02-23 Position Description: We are seeking volunteer field assistants for a long-term study of hamadryas baboons at the Filoha study site in the lowlands of central Ethiopia (see: https://larissaswedell.org/filoha), to begin in June or July 2018 for a period of at least six months, preferably longer. Field assistants at Filoha are part of a field team that is responsible for all-day follows (5-15 km/day) of baboons, daily census of the study group, collection of behavioral and reproductive data, and collection and processing of fecal samples for genetic and hormone analyses in our field laboratory. Field assistants are accompanied by one of our current graduate students, ou