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Introduction
Matthew Gardiners research interests are Developmental and behavioural plasticity in Barbary Macaques and the development of social phenotypes during ontogeny.
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September 2022 - February 2023
June 2019 - August 2022
Position
- Project Manager
Description
- Field work season 1: Bartering Macaques of Uluwatu
May 2018 - July 2018
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Publications (4)
The token exchange paradigm shows that monkeys and great apes are able to use objects as symbolic tools to request specific food rewards. Such studies provide insights into the cognitive underpinnings of economic behavior in non-human primates. However, the ecological validity of these lab-based experimental situations tends to be limited. Our fiel...
Furry and wide-eyed, lorises and pottos are small, nocturnal primates inhabiting African, Asian and Southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forests. Their likeable appearance, combined with their unusual adaptations-from a marked reduction of the tail to their mostly slow, deliberate locomotion, powerful grasping and, in some species, a venomous b...
Slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) are one of six venomous mammals, and the only known venomous primate. In the wild envenomation occurs mainly during conspecific competition for mates and territory, but may also be used as an application against parasites or for predator defense. Envenomation in humans is documented, with the most extreme accounts det...
