Catarina Coelho is a PhD student based at the University of Algarve (Portugal) supervised by Dr. Susana Carvalho. She is a recipient of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia PhD fellowship. With an academic background in biology and ecology, Catarina has focused her research on animal behaviour and ecological interactions. During her Masters research, she examined sexual segregation in red deer, deepening her interest in the behavioural ecology of large mammals. Her longstanding fascination with primate behaviour and cognition led her to pursue a PhD project that merges this passion with her background in ungulates. Conducted in Gorongosa National Park, she will explore the sympatric interactions between wild baboons and ungulate species, investigating foraging strategies, dietary seasonality, niche partitioning, and behavioural interactions. Through this study, she aims to shed light into the complex ecological dynamics of these species within a diverse and seasonal ecosystem, and potentially model how hominins and ungulates once shared space.