Concordia University
Ph.D. candidate
Supervisor: Sarah E. Turner
Start: 2022-09-04
Personal page
Personal page 2

Project

Optimal spatial movement strategies in foraging among free-ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)
I am interested in assessing how individual and social factors influence optimal route decisions in foraging within a group of free-ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). I am especially interested in how disability (in the form of congenital limb malformations, CLMS), lifestage and sex might vary decision strategies; and, whether, compensatory behaviours emerge.

Keywords

Macaca fuscata, Optimal foraging theory, Spatial cognition, Behavioral Ecology

Publications

1- Proximity and grooming patterns reveal opposite-sex bonding in Rwenzori Angolan colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii)
Arseneau-Robar, T. Jean M., Megan M. Joyce, Samantha M. Stead, Julie A. Teichroeb
2017 Primates

2- Mild movement sequence repetition in five primate species and evidence for a taxonomic divide in cognitive mechanisms
Kumpan, L. Tamara, Alexander Q. Vining, Megan M. Joyce, William D. Aguado, Eve A. Smeltzer, Sarah E. Turner, Julie A. Teichroeb
2022 Scientific Reports