Jo Setchell is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Durham University, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Primatology. She has studied mandrills in collaboration with the Centre International de Recherches Médicales, in Franceville, Gabon, since 1996. She is currently President of the Primate Society of Great Britain. Her forthcoming book “Studying Primates” focuses on how to design, conduct and report primatological research.