@EvaWikberg

Assistant Professor at UTSA with research focusing on primates, behavioral and molecular ecology, and conservation.

 San Antonio, TX
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Joined October 2017
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🐒 Meet the ursine colobus. Today's #MonkeyMonday comes from grantee @KidColobus. Sara Lucci is a PhD candidate at @UTSAanthro who is studying early life adversity and the gut #microbiome. Read on 👇
A picture of a wild colobus monkey with black fur and a long white tail sitting in a leafy green tree.

ALT A picture of a wild colobus monkey with black fur and a long white tail sitting in a leafy green tree.

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Congrats to Sara Lucci @KidColobus for being awarded an @NSF DDRIG to investigate early life adversity and gut microbiome characteristics in our study population Colobus vellerosus at BFMS
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Thanks to @Teichroeb_Lab for spearheading the effort reporting on the “Non-reproductive sexual behavior in wild white-thighed colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus)”. You can read our article here: rdcu.be/c6wIu
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We just published the first data on same-sex sexual behaviour in the African colobines, and only the second report of masturbation in this taxon, with a report on Colobus vellerosus. link.springer.com/article/10…

Non-Reproductive Sexual Behavior in Wild White-Thighed Colobus Monkeys (Colobus vellerosus)

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Rare behaviors are often missing from published papers, hampering phylogenetic analyses. Here, we report, for the first time, masturbation and same-sex sexual behavior...

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I am so excited to see our African colobines chapter in The Natural History of #Primates @RLPGBooks where Kelley, Sussman, and I highlight behavioral flexibility and conservation in a changing world
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We are hiring an Assistant Professor position in Human Health! Come and join our amazing department! Deadline is Oct 24. Please spread the word. Full job description at bioanth.org/jobs/3406/ @utsa @UTSACOLFA @UTSAResearch @BiologicalAnth @GetAnthropoJobs @AmericanAnthro

Assistant professor - Human Health - AABA

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio seeks to hire a Biological Anthropologist at the level of Assistant Professor. We […]

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Here is a free access view only link to “Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white‐faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)”: rdcu.be/cQoPO
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Read more about capuchin male dispersal and reproductive success in our newly published BEAS paper link.springer.com/article/10…

Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Although males often disperse to increase their immediate access to mates, it is unclear whether they also consider potential future reproductive...

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Subordinate male capuchins who queue for reproductive opportunities are as successful in producing offspring as alpha males that aggressively takeover a group, which may explain why male capuchins cooperate despite high reproductive skew.
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#colobus vellerosus Marla is showing off her #personality on the #AmJournalPrimatology cover by doing a one-leg (cheating) stiff-leg (aggressive) display while her infant is nursing
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I am excited to see this project from Sofia Gonzalez’s and Cynthia Rodriguez’s #undergraduateresearch at #UTSA published in #AmJournalPrimatology
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Joint intergroup aggression by #Colobus vellerosus females increases with strong grooming bonds and decreases with male participation and group size: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
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Congrats to Bright Adu Yeboah for being awarded the @TheLeakeyFndtn Baldwin fellowship for his PhD studies in Environmental Anthropology at #UTSAanthro: leakeyfoundation.org/announc…

Announcing the 2021 Baldwin Fellows

Since 1978, the prestigious Baldwin Fellowship has worked to build scientific capacity in the regions where fossils and wild primates are found. We are proud to introduce the outstanding spring 2021...

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Congrats to Emily Glotfelty for finishing her MA thesis investigating changes in food availability and ranging over 20 years when the BFMS population of the #criticallyendangered #colobus (Colobus vellerosus) increased from 200 to 450 individuals
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Congrats to Sara Lucci @KidColobus, Emily Glotfelty, and Shelby Samartino each for being awarded a #UTSA COLFA Stumberg award!
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Congrats Shelby Samartino for successfully defending her PhD proposal! #proudPI
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Congrats to Emily Glotfelty for completing her MA proposal about variation in Colobus vellerosus behavior with increasing population size!
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Congrats to Shelby Samartino for winning the Pints and Posters competition during #UTSA Research Days: graduateschoolgps.myportfoli…. Next month she will give an equally amazing proposal presentation!
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