Kate Talbot
I am a graduate student working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan at the Language Research Center on various projects investigating cooperation and prosociality among brown capuchin monkeys. I am also the Cebus Lab Coordinator. My current interests lie within social cognition both within and outside the primate order. Previously, I have also worked with Dr. Brosnan at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research of the UT/MD Anderson Cancer Center investigating economic and social decision making in chimpanzees and squirrel monkeys. Additionally, I have assisted then Ph.D. candidate, Steffen Foerster, investigate physiological and psychological sources of stress in adult female blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kenya with a focus on food availability and intraspecific competition. I also worked with Dr. Marilyn Norconk in researching the interaction of saki monkeys (P. pithecia and C. satanas) with seed demography and the impact on pre and post-dispersal seed predation