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Jack Dalton (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate)

My dissertation research focuses on the behavioral ecology of the thick-tailed galago, a species of medium-sized nocturnal primate. This work required of a year behavioral data collection on a wild population at the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa, which consisted of tracking the animals through the forest all night and keeping detailed notes of their locations, behaviors, and other relevant variables. In detailing the animals’ movements, foraging patterns, and social behaviors, I hope that my research will shed new light on the social and cognitive complexity of a group of nocturnal primates traditionally (yet erroneously) described as solitary and unintelligent.

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