Examining nutritional ecology in relation to social behavior in extant primates enables testing predictions of primate socioecological models. African guenons, one of the largest and most diverse radiations of primates, have subtler intragroup social dynamics than other cercopithecines, leading to interesting socioecological questions that inform and expand on primate socioecological models. I examine social dynamics in relation to nutritional intake and balance (“social nutrition”) in guenon species in Uganda. Social nutrition in the context of anthropogenic change also informs conservation and management in collaboration with national park management and local communities

About the Speaker

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Margaret Bryer’s research focuses on how ecology shapes behaviour in nonhuman primates, using methods including nutritional chemistry and behavioural observations. 

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