PhD Candidate researching how primates use sex to navigate their complex social lives | Primate behavioural ecologist | University of Toronto | she/her 🏳️🌈🐒
Karyn Anderson
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Thrilled to share that our new paper is out today! 🎉
We report the first description of same-sex sexual behaviour in Rwenzori Angolan colobus monkeys - and find it may play a role in male social bonding within their multilevel societies.
Perfect Valentine’s Day reading ❤️🐒
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Excellent new paper out from the Savolainen lab. They found that SSB expression in primates was more likely in species living in difficult environments, with longer life histories, and those with more complex social systems.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This paper raises really interesting questions about the role of SSB, particularly in stressful environments. While SSB was once thought of as paradoxical or strange, new work increasingly suggests an important social function for SSB in animals.
How do we determine if a behaviour is sexual or social, and why are we so obsessed with doing so? A new paper by Drs. Kirsty Graham and Michelle Rodrigues interrogates the false dichotomy between sexual and sociosexual behaviours. onlinelibrary-wiley-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10....
What is the relationship between science and society? How does culture impact the production and dissemination of knowledge? In this new paper, Eppley et al interrogate how systems of oppression bias our research, and how Queer perspectives can address these. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
What’s better to read about on Valentine’s Day than our new paper on same-sex sex in Rwenzori colobus? ❤️❤️ Monkey love knows no bounds. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
this (good) story is very funny to me because it's like How Did These Top Scientists Avoid Working With Epstein? 🤔 They Googled Him And Saw He Was A Bad Guy 😔
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Your annual pride month reminder that nature is more queer than we know 🌈 www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
New lab paper! We ran a vervet #foraging #experiment where we created both #scramble and #contest. This evened foraging success, but experiencing more #competition still led to #risk averse #decisions by the monkeys, showing the importance of this variable. www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
