Research projects

Grooming Reciprocity and Exchange in Wild Chimpanzees (Nicholas Newton-Fisher)
Threats and violence amongst chimpanzees and other apes (Nicholas Newton-Fisher)
Evaluating measures of co-existence between people and wild chimpanzees in Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa (Tatyana Humle, with Freya St. John)
Using genetics as a tool for assessing the impact of mining on chimpanzees- SMFG Nimba Iron Ore (Tatyana Humle, with Christina Hvislom and Kathelijne Koops)
Meaning attribution and decision-making in the perception of false alarm calls among wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Brandon Wheeler)
How do capuchins come to attribute meanings to sounds? The potential roles of associative and social learning (Brandon Wheeler).
Female mate choice and male mating decisions in wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Brandon Wheeler, with Barbara Tiddi & Michael Heistermann)
Modelling the group size effect on individual predation risk among primates (Brandon Wheeler, with Charles Janson)
The ecology of social relationships among female primates: testing the models (Brandon Wheeler, with Andreas Koenig, Carola Borries, and Clara Scarry)
GRASP The evolution of the human hand: grasping trees and tools. (Tracy Kivell & Matthew Skinner)
Developmental stress in extant apes as manifested in their dental tissues (Matthew Skinner)

Living Primates Research Group