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	Primate Ecology and Conservation Studies of living primates, including the behavior and conservation of lemurs in Madagascar, baboons and chimpanzees in Africa, and monkeys in Central and South America.

	Dr. Crickette Sanz studies the factors which have led to the emergence and promoted the maintenance of behavioral diversity in primates. She is particularly interested in the variation of social organization and material culture that has been documented among wild chimpanzee populations. This pursuit involves field studies and collaborative projects to examine instraspecific variation in the behavioral ecology of wild apes. Dr. Sanz is co-director of the Guoalougo Ape Project in the Republic of Congo.	Primatology Faculty Jane Phillips-Conroy Crickette Sanz Robert Sussman
	Dr. Robert Sussman's work covers a broad theoretical and geographical range, with interests in community ecology and behavior of primates. In Madagascar, he is conducting long-term study of the demography, ecology and social organization of the ring-tailed lemur at the Beza Mahafaly Reserve of which he is a cofounder. The team is currently involved in monitoring deforestation with satellite images, and investigating the impact on the lemurs of the region. In Mauritius , he has worked on the ecology and social organization of long-tailed macaques. More recently, Dr. Sussman and his students have begun working in Central and South America, especially Costa Rica and Guyana, on community ecology and conservation of the primates in these regions.	Field Sites Beza Mahafaly Reserve, Madagascar Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, Rep. of Congo , Baboon Site, Africa
	Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy studies free-ranging primates focusing on how behavioral, demographic, and ecological variables function to influence populaton structure. Her research has includes a long-term study of the hybrid zone between olive and hamadryas baboons in the Awash National Park in Ethiopia (Papio hamadryas, s.l.). The scope of her research now extends to fields as diverse as genetics, morphology, and neurochemistry, in addition to continued interest in dental variation and its relevance for understanding morphological events that occur in the baboon hybrid zone. Like others in our department, her research is broad spectrum, integrative, and collaborative.
Other faculty in the Physical Anthropology group have research interests related to primatology. Dr. Tab Rasmussen studies the evolution of primates through discovery and analysis of primate fossils from North America and East Africa. Dr. Herman Pontzer studies energy use in living primates, both in the field and in captivity.		Research Partners Org. for Tropical Studies Midwest Primate Interest Group St. Louis Zoo	Related Faculty Herman Pontzer Tab Rasumussen


	Physical Anthropology Washington University Department of Anthropology