Dr. Hobaiter studies the cognition and communication of great apes from an evolutionary perspective. Her Ph.D. research was a systematic study of gestural communication in a wild great ape, undertaken with the Sonso chimpanzee community in the Budongo forest, Uganda. She has studied the ecology of forest living baboons, and the nettle processing skills and gestural communication of gorillas. Current projects focus on multi-modal communication in wild chimpanzees, investigating the way in which vocalisations and facial expressions are combined with gestures. She is also involved in the habituation of a new community, and is looking at the behavioural and physiological effects of the habituation process.