News

Capuchinos de Taboga will be well represented at the American Society of Primatologists meetings in Mexico in September 2024. Come check out all our talks and posters!

Emory Graduate Student Evan Cunningham was recently awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate innovation, behavioral flexibility, and social learning in wild capuchins. Congrats Evan!

Emory graduate student Nicole Furgala was awarded an NSERC Fellowship for her project on understanding ToM capabilities in captive and wild capuchins. Congrats Nicole!

The Capuchinos de Taboga team gave several talks at the Santa Rosa Capuchin Conference in November 2023.

AI is coming soon to our project! Jacinta gives a talk for the Michigan Institute for Data Science, Data Science and AI Summit entitled Using machine-learning to monitor animal movement. You can watch a video of the talk here.

C@T Directors Jacinta Beehner and Thore Bergman have been elected as a 2022 and 2021 Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society. Congratulations!

Dr. Benítez was awarded an inaugural Emory & GA Tech AI Humanity grant with Dr. Jacob Abernethy to develop a smart computer testing system for studying cognition in wild capuchins. Congrats! 

Emory graduate student Sarah Kovalaskas received an NSF Doctoral Improve Grant for her dissertation research on the effect of intergroup competition on affiliation, oxytocin, and group cohesion in these wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. Congrats Sarah! 