Julie Teichroeb
Julie Teichroeb received her Ph.D. in primatology from the University of Calgary in 2009 before taking post-doc positions at McGill University, the University of California Santa Cruz, and Duke University. Julie primarily examines the evolution of sociality from the perspective of constraints on individuals and their subsequent decision-making. The relative influence of social and ecological pressures on social organization is of particular interest. Most of her current fieldwork is being carried out at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda and is focused on two primate species, vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) and Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii). Topics currently under investigation for the vervets include understanding consensus costs in group movements and decision-making during social foraging, often utilizing field experiments. The colobus form a unique multilevel society within the primates and work is underway to determine how their dynamic patterns of sociality evolved.
Affiliations
- Graduate Faculty, University of Toronto, School of the Environment
- Member, Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology
- Member, American Association of Biological Anthropologists
- Member, International Primatological Society
- Member, American Society of Primatologists
Teaching Interests
- Primate Behaviour
- Primate Sociality
- Primate Conservation
Research Interests
- Primate Behavioural Ecology
- Evolution of Group Living and Social Organization
- Spatial Cognition
- Consensus Decision-Making
- Social Foraging
Awards and Grants
2016-2023 NSERC Discovery Grant “Understanding the drivers of individual and group movements in gregarious species”
2019-2023 The Leakey Foundation Research Grant “Kinship and mechanisms of male tolerance in a Rwenzori Angolan colobus multi-level society”
Publications
For a full list of publications see www.julieteichroeb.com
2022 Matsuda I, Grueter CC & Teichroeb JA. eds. The Colobines: Natural History, Behaviour and Ecological Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
2021 Teichroeb JA, Corewyn LC & Paterson JD. 2021. Primate Behavior: An Exercise Workbook, 3rd Edition. Waveland Press, Long Grove IL.
2021 Stead SM, Bădescu I, Raboin DL, Sicotte P, Rothman JM, Baden AL & Teichroeb JA. High levels of infant handling by adult males in Rwenzori Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) compared to two closely related species, C. vellerosus and C. guereza. Primates 62: 637-646.
2021 Li MF, Arseneau-Robar TJM, Smeltzer EA & Teichroeb JA. Be early or be tolerated: vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) foraging strategies in a dispersed resource. Animal Behaviour 176: 1-15.
2021 Adams FV, Arseneau-Robar TJM, Bonnell TR, Stead SM & Teichroeb JA. Temporal patterns in the social network of core units in an African colobine multi-level society. Ecology and Evolution 11(7): 3251-3263.
2021 Arseneau-Robar TJM, Changasi AH, Turner E & Teichroeb JA. Diet and activity budget in Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii at Nabugabo, Uganda: Are they energy maximizers? Folia Primatologica 92: 35-48.
