Monkey Business

A couple weeks ago, we attended the American Society of Primatologist Conference. Here are some of our thoughts!   Enjoy! Email: monkeybizpodcast@gmail.com

Last episode we discussed the evolution of infanticide, and in this episode we apply that knowledge to current research on female led infanticide and the case study on the first wild albino chimpanzee.

In our last episode on the White Thighed Colobus, we mentioned infanticide. Here we discuss some of the hypotheses that attempt to answer why this behavior evolved.    Also! We would love to hear from you if you have any questions or comments. Our email is monkeybizpodcast@gmail.com.    

Hope you enjoy our show this week!    If you have any questions or comments, please shoot us an email at monkeybizpodcast@gmail.com

Halloween Special Episode! Here we dive into the life of an Aye-aye. Hope you enjoy listening as much as we had fun recording this one!  

We definitely struggle with managing to keep up with current research. Here we discuss some tips and tricks that help us when reading dense and "over our head" academic articles.  

In this episode we discuss a newly published article: On experimental tests for studying altruism in capuchin monkeys by Benoit Bucher, Hika Kuroshima, James R. Anderson, and Kazuo Fujita.   Note: We talked about training with a Key. It was actually a pin! Sorry for the confusion!   Reference: Bucher, B., Kuroshima, H., Anderson, J. R., & Fujita, K. (2021). On experimental tests for studying altruism in capuchin monkeys. Behavioural Processes, 189, 104424.

What do we learn by studying prosocial behavior in non-human primates? What are some difficulties this research faces? In this episode we discuss some of the exciting discoveries and problems we face conducting this type of research with monkeys.    References specifically mentioned in the episode:  Cronin, K. A. (2012). Prosocial behaviour in animals: the influence of social relationships, communication and rewards. Animal Behaviour, 84(5), 1085-1093.   Hopper, L. M., & Cronin, K. A. (2018). What Did You Get? What Social Learning, Collaboration, Prosocial Behaviour, and Inequity Aversion Tell Us About Primate Social Cognition. In Evolution of Primate Social Cognition (pp. 13-26). Springer, Cham.   Marshall-Pescini, S., Dale, R., Quervel-Chaumette, M., & Range, F. (2016). Critical issues in experimental studies of prosociality in non-human species. Animal Cognition, 19(4), 679-705.   Silk, J. B., Brosnan, S. F., Henrich, J., Lambeth, S. P., & Shapiro, S. (2013). Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers. Animal behaviour, 85(5), 941-947.    

This primate definitely looks like they are all business in the front and all party in back, but looks can be deceiving! Listen to learn more about this cute little friends unique social structure and much more about their lives!

Welcome to Monkey Business! The podcast where two PhD students explore the wonderful world of primates and primate research. In our first episode, we dive into the life of the Black Snub-Nosed monkey who live in the highest elevations of any non-human primate.