Do you work as a team or indervisal. – Animal Behaviour Zone

Question: Do you work as a team or indervisal.
- Keywords:
  work routine
Asked by kane123 to Claire, Joanna, Kapila, Renata, Suzanne on 17 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by melissa13.
- Suzanne Harvey answered on 17 Jun 2013:
  
  I always work with two others – a volunteer to record monkey sounds while I take notes on their behaviour, and a local field assistant who knows all the baboons by name and never gets lost in the forest. We couldn’t do without our field assistants, even after months of trekking in the same forest it is still really easy to get lost!
  
  We are also part of a bigger team at the field station, but everyone has their own research project – some people work with the chimps, some baboons, and some people study the trees and plants in the area instead of the animals. It’s great to live and work with people doing all kinds of interesting research projects!
- Claire El Mouden answered on 17 Jun 2013:
  
  It depends what I’m doing. One thing I like about bring a scientist is that some things you do alone, and some as a team. I probably spend about half my time working on my own.
- Renata Medeiros answered on 18 Jun 2013:
  
  Although sometimes scientists might do work on their own, their work is always part of a team. I don’t think it is possible to do science alone.

Question: Do you work as a team or indervisal.