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I'm a Marie Curie post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Konstanz, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
My research focuses on understanding the behavior, ecology, and development of social animals under energetic constraints - especially bats and primates. To do this I study the social behavior, learning, physiology, and movement of these animals in the wild. Bats & primates show high amounts of diversity in social organization and ecology and are great comparative groups to understand the evolution of mammalian social organization, information use, & life history and their relationship to ecology. |
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Research, &tc
Social & Ecological Development
My work with bats & primates explores how individuals learn from each other, how they filter social information, and how this happens in an ecological context. Learning in a social context is an important aspect of growing up, finding food, and navigating social relationships. |
Energetic Limitations & Sociality
Bats show a wide diversity of social organizations, but the most stable and cooperative groups rely on food resources that are hard to predict in space and time. I study how social information use and cooperation evolve under extremely energetic limited lifestyles. I'm particularly interested if these social groups are a place for individuals to level social information to find food, as well as what comprises must be made to stabilize these social groups. |
Sex, Behavior, & Biology
An individual's biological sex is one of the most important determinants of its life. It shapes who their social partners are, what their role in a social group can be, what & when they eat, where they live, and how they grow. I'm interested in when and why males and females differ in development and how this is related to ecological and social strategies. |
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