Crickette Sanz Explained

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.

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

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: May 4, 2017. Crickette Sanz. 2020-07-17. Department of Anthropology. Washington University in St. Louis. en.
  2. Web site: staff. Tidings. 2018-05-29. Speaker series features talk on wild chimpanzees and gorillas. 2020-07-17. Ashland Tidings. 2020-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20200717170013/https://ashlandtidings.com/news/education/speaker-series-features-talk-on-wild-chimpanzees-and-gorillas. dead.
  3. Web site: Top Anthropology Stories of 2003. 2020-07-17. Discover Magazine. en.
  4. Thorp. H. Holden. 2020-07-10. Monumental patience. Science. en. 369. 6500. 121. 10.1126/science.abd6799. 0036-8075. 32646974. 2020Sci...369..121T . free.
  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. en. 14. 6. 1584–1599. 10.1038/s41396-020-0634-2. 32203121. 7242348. 1751-7370.
  6. Web site: Sanz recognized with Women-in-Primatology award. Washington University in St. Louis. 12 July 2019 .

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