Fall Quarter 2004

Wednesday, September 29

Antje Engelhardt, University of Chicago
"Reproductive strategies and male reproductive success in wild longtail macaques (Macaca fascicularis)"

Wednesday, October 6

Alejandro Estrada, University of Mexico-UNAM
"Primate research in southern Mexico: ecology, behavior and conservation"

Wednesday, October 13

Geert Spaepen, University of Chicago
"Tool use in cotton-top tamarins"

Wednesday, October 20

Bruce Patterson, Field Museum of Natural History
"The lions of Tsavo: manes, man-eating, and other myths about lions"

Friday, October 22

Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Lincoln Park Zoo
"The Development, Acquisition and Transmission of a Tool-use Skill in Chimpanzees - Integrating Field and Captive Studies"
 

Wednesday, October 27

Michelle Rafacz, University of Chicago
"The role of prior foraging experience and enhanced spatial memory in foraging success of the laboratory rat"

Wednesday, November 3

Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago
"Causation, ontogeny, adaptive function, and evolution of caregiver attachment in primates"

Wednesday, November 10

Callum Ross, University of Chicago
"Anthropoid origins and the evolution of primate vision"

Wednesday, November 17

Klaus Miczek, Tufts University
"Escalated aggression: alcohol, GABA-A and serotonin receptor subtypes"

Wednesday, November 24

No seminar
 

Wednesday, December 1

Gauri Pradhan, University of Chicago
"Modeling male infanticide and female counterstrategies in primates"
 

Wednesday, December 8

Steven Austad, University of Texas
"Bats, rats, and cats: the comparative biology of aging"