Crofoot, Margaret
Affiliated Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staffprimate behavioral ecology, movement ecology
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Stanford University
- M.A., Stanford University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research And Grants
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Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Hot monkey, cold reality: surveying rainforest canopy mammals using drone-mounted thermal infrared sensors. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 40:407-419. 2019
- Estimating the robustness and uncertainty of animal social networks using different observational methods. Animal Behaviour. 141:29-44. 2018
- Evidence for High Variability in Temporal Features of the Male Coda in Müller's Bornean Gibbons (Hylobates muelleri). International Journal of Primatology. 39:670-684. 2018
- Evidence for vocal performance constraints in a female nonhuman primate. Animal Behaviour. 141:85-94. 2018
- GPS-identified vulnerabilities of savannah-woodland primates to leopard predation and their implications for early hominins. Journal of Human Evolution. 118:1-13. 2018
- Habitual stone-tool-aided extractive foraging in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Royal Society Open Science. 5. 2018
- Inferring influence and leadership in moving animal groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 373. 2018
- Quantifying uncertainty due to fission-fusion dynamics as a component of social complexity. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B. 285. 2018
- Understanding sources of variance and correlation among features of Bornean gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) female calls. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 144:698-708. 2018
- GPS-identified, low-level nocturnal activity of vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) and olive baboons (Papio anubis) in Laikipia, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 164:203-211. 2017
- Habitat and social factors shape individual decisions and emergent group structure during baboon collective movement. eLife. 6:e19505. 2017
- Individual variation in local interaction rules can explain emergent patterns of spatial organization in wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B. 284. 2017
- Investigating Individual Vocal Signatures and Small-Scale Patterns of Geographic Variation in Female Bornean Gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) Great Calls. International Journal of Primatology. 38:656-671. 2017
- Both Nearest Neighbours and Long-term Affiliates Predict Individual Locations During Collective Movement in Wild Baboons. Scientific Reports. 6:1-10. 2016
- The feedback between where we go and what we know—information shapes movement, but movement also impacts information acquisition. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 12:90-96. 2016
- Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons. Science. 348:1358-1361. 2015
- Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet. Science. 348. 2015
- The wisdom of baboon decisions—Response. Science. 349:935-936. 2015
- Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks. Scientific Reports. 4. 2014
- Social and spatial relationships between primate groups. Primate Ecology and Conservation: A handbook of Techniques. 151-175. 2013
- The Cost of defeat: Capuchin groups travel further, faster and later after losing conflicts with neighbors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 152:79-85. 2013
- Non-random walks in monkeys and humans. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9:842-847. 2012
- Why mob? Reassessing the costs and benefits of primate predator harassment. Folia Primatologica. 83:252-273. 2012
- Aggression, Grooming and Group-Level Cooperation in White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus capucinus): Insights From Social Networks. American Journal of Primatology. 73:821-833. 2011
- Cheating monkeys undermine group strength in enemy territory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109:501-505. 2011
- Tracking Animal Location and Activity with an Automated Radio Telemetry System in a Tropical Rainforest. The Computer Journal. 54:1931-1948. 2011
- Does watching a monkey change its behaviour? Quantifying observer effects in habituated wild primates using automated radiotelemetry. Animal Behaviour. 80:475-480. 2010
- Monkey and cell-phone-user mobilities scale similarly. Nature Physics. 6:928-930. 2010
- Interaction location outweighs the competitive advantage of numerical superiority in Cebus capucinus intergroup contests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:577-581. 2008
- Mating and feeding competition in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): the importance of shortand long-term strategies. Behaviour. 144:1473-1495. 2007
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department