Dong-po Xia, Ph.D. 
Research Associate

Dr. Dongpo Xia is an associate professor at Anhui University School of Life Sciences. His research interests include primate behavior and ecology, conservation and public education, the influence of conservation methodologies on nonhuman primate behavior, and the reproductive physiology of free-ranging primates. Dr. Xia has served as a conservation educator at the Huangshan National Reserve in Anhui Province, China since 2004. His field research at the site has yielded numerous publications on Tibetan macaques.

Research Associate

Dr. Susan Cheyne has studied the gibbons of South-East Asia for the last 15 years and carried out her Ph.D. research on the rehabilitation and reintroduction of gibbons from the pet trade. Since 2005, she has carried out continuous long-term research into the wild gibbons of the peat-swamp forests of Indonesian Borneo. Dr. Cheyne is co-director of the Borneo Nature Foundation and initiated the Gibbon Behaviour, Feeding Ecology and Socioecology Project and the Felid Project in the Sabangau forest catchment, which has confirmed the area as a vital habitat for felids as well as gibbons. She is a post-doctoral researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford University and an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.