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Speaker:
Urs Kalibtzer, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Urs Kalibtzer is a Research Associate at McGill University and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. He is a behavioral ecologist and biological anthropologist interested in primate social behavior and primate responses to anthropogenic changes in their environments. Having worked in several places in the world where primates and other organism are threatened by human activities, he also wants to understand how animals respond to environmental change, in order to help prevent their extinction

Insights into language evolution from the combinatorial abilities of primates

There is considerable variation in social behaviour within and across mammalian taxa. To better understand the ecological and evolutionary causes of this variation, investigations at different levels of social behaviour, as well as comparisons across time, space, and taxa are essential. I will present results of my ongoing work on differences in social behaviour in two primate species, white-faced capuchins and red colobus, and briefly talk about my future research plans.