By studying and comparing models of carnivore cooperative hunting and primate foraging, I can better understand how group-living animals modify their actions to meet environmental demands. A primary interest is determining whether similar factors, related to having a complex social organization, influence learning and performance across taxonomic groups. I am also interested in how animals learn rules of social conduct and maintain social cohesion, as evidenced by their patterns of behavioral developmental, the intricate balance between aggression and play, the expression of scent marking, and the social facilitation or inhibition of behavior. Effects of prenatal anti-androgens. Status, age, and sex effects on performance of discrimination tasks in group-tested rhesus monkeys.
Social context affects how rhesus monkeys explore their environment.