Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Professors Vicky Oelze and Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Seth Philips and Dr. Alex Piel for their support and guidance throughout this entire process. I would also like to thank Whitney Hansen and John Morgan for their help with processing my data. A huge thank you the members of the Chimpanzee Video Coding Team for processing the immense amount of camera trap videos that went into this project (Audry Ahearn, Maria Borges, Sarah Copper, Vicktoria Collins, Cielo De La Rosa, Jenna DiNapoli, Julie Elliott, Lindsay Gillespie, Stacy Goodwyll, Gabriel Granado, Spenser Hardy, Ree Hawksworth-Lutzow, Lauryn Hobbs, Sofia Jo, Margot Kilroy, Vanessa Morgan, Kelsea Ranks, Josephine Serpan, Ricky Sierra, Allegra Stahl, Laura Tellez, Namia Tucker, Spencer Witte, Angelique Wong, Kaya Zepeda, and Kimberly Zhu). I would also like to thank the Koret Foundation and the Building Belonging Program for their support and the opportunisies they have given me over the last year. Finally, I would like to thank my Anth 195 class for the advice, support and camaraderie throughout our entire thesis writing process. It would not have been the same without you all!

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