Biological Sciences Department
Binghamton University
Vestal Parkway East
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902
Office Location: Science III, Rm. 277
E-mail: Lmoscovi@binghamton.edu
Phone: (607) 777-6798
Fax: (607) 777-6521
Social learning in cotton-top tamarins
Chimpanzee socio-ecology on Rubondo Island
Long-term associations between adult male and juvenile chacma baboons
I study the causes and consequences of primate social behavior in a range of species. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I initially studied social learning in cotton-top tamarins in collaboration with Dr. Charles Snowdon. Through this research, I became interested in primate behavioral flexibility in response to social and ecological variables. For my dissertation research I collaborated with Dr. Michael Huffman to examine the socio-ecology of a unique chimpanzee population descended from founders introduced to Rubondo island, Tanzania over forty years ago. From 2006-2009 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied social bonds between adult males and juveniles and between unrelated female chacma baboons in the Moremi Reserve, Botswana in collaboration with Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth. Currently I am pursuing research on the endocrine mediators of social behavior in humans and in non-human primates.