Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability

In Admiration of Linda Marie Fedigan.- Part I: Primate Life Histories.- The Temporal Scale of Behavioral and Demographic Flexibility: Implications for Comparative Analyses and Conservation.- Post-fertile Lifespan in Female Primates and Cetaceans.- Seasonal Patterns of Infant Mortality in Wild Sanje Mangabeys, Cercocebus sanjei.- Part II: Sex Roles, Gender, and Science.- A Woman of Science: Sorting Fact and Illusion in Gender and Primatology.- Alpha Male Capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) as Keystone Individuals.- The effects of Dispersal and Reproductive Patterns on the Evolution of Male Sociality in White-faced Capuchins.- Disability and Dominance Rank in Adult Female and Male Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata).- Part III: Primate-Environment Interactions.- Data Collection in Field Primatology: A Renewed Look at Measuring Foraging Behavior.- Intra- and Interannual Variation in the Fruit Diet of Wild Capuchins: Impact of Plant Phenology.- Dietary Profile, Food Composition, and Nutritional Intake of Female White-faced Capuchins.- Primate-plant Mutualisms: Is There Evidence for Primate Fruit Syndromes?.- Color Vision Genetics Learned from New World Monkeys in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica.- Part IV: Primate Adaptations to Changing Environments.- Primate Responses to Changing Environments in the Anthropocene.- The Specialist Capuchin? Using Ecological Niche Models to Compare Niche Breadth in Mesoamerican Primates.- A Synthesis of Long-term Environmental Change in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica.- How variable is a primate`s world:  Spatial and Temporal Variation in Potential Ecological Drivers of Behavior?.

Urs Kalbitzer's interests include increasing his understanding of behavioral plasticity and the evolution of primate sociality by studying the variation in behavior, life-histories, hormones, genetics, and ecology between species. He completed his Diploma (which is equivalent to both a Bachelor of Science and Masters degree) in biology in 2008, and his PhD in 2014 at the German Primate Center (DPZ) and the University of Göttingen, Germany. For his PhD thesis, he investigated behavioral, hormonal, and genetic differences among several species of baboon. After receiving his PhD, he began a postdoctoral fellowship with Linda Fedigan in the Department of Anthropology and Archeology at the University of Calgary to examine the benefits and costs of female sociality in the Santa Rosa capuchin monkeys. His fellowship in Calgary led to his collaborating with other primatologists within the department in studying the variety of species (including Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, and lemurs), and how primates rapidly adapt to changing environments. In 2017, Kalbitzer began a postdoctoral fellowship with Colin A. Chapman at McGill University, where he is continuing his research on the social behavior of female primates, primate adaptations to changing environments, and primate ecology and conservation.
Katharine (Kathy) Jack completed her MA (1995, under Mary Pavelka) and BSc (1992) at the University of Calgary. For her Master's research, Kathy studied the behavior of peripheral male Japanese macaques during the mating season at the Arashiyama West site in south Texas, where Mary Pavelka first introduced her to Linda Fedigan. In 1997, she joined the doctoral program at the University of Alberta, where, under the guidance of Linda Fedigan, she studied male life history patterns in white-faced capuchins in Santa Rosa National Park in Costa Rica. In 2001, just months after completing her doctorate in Anthropology, Kathy took up a faculty position at