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primate behavior
My research focuses on the communication and social behavior of
non-human primates. My current research is conducted on free-ranging
baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. My research is conducted
jointly with Robert
Seyfarth, a member of Penn’s Psychology
Department.
Click
here for
a full description of my research on the Okavango
Delta baboons.
I have also worked with vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park
in Kenya and mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Our earlier
work on vervet monkeys focused in part on the semantic content
of alarm, inter-group, and within-group calls. Through
the use of playback experiments, we investigated how monkeys perceive
and classify their vocalizations. Our research also explored kin
recognition, reciprocity, and knowledge of other species’ behavior.
We have continued to focus on many of these issues in our work
with baboons.
Our graduate students have conducted research on a
variety of different species, including diana monkeys and. mangabeys
in the Ivory Coast, spider monkeys in Mexico, and cebus monkeys
in Costa Rica.
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