Stephan Kaufhold, UCSD. Title: Situated Simian Minds: Why Context Matters for Modeling Primate Behavior

352 Haines Hall

Unlike humans, who can maintain relationships and communities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries, nonhuman primates’ relationships are fundamentally grounded in embodied, immediate interactions. In this talk, I present two empirical studies on resource conflicts in semi-naturalistic primate groups, showing how their behavior and decision-making are best understood by considering social and ecological contexts. The first […]