Aileen goes wild for her baboon project

A 23-year-old UCC zoology graduate has taken up the job of managing the first baboon research centre of its type ever built.

Aileen Sweeney, from Kilworth, Co Cork, and her team have just moved into the centre at Kasanka National Park in central Zambia which has been specifically built to study Kinda baboons (Papio cynocephalus kindae).

Aileen said the research project was aimed at proving such types of baboon, listed as a subspecies of the Yellow baboon, are in fact a distinct species.