Borgeaud Christèle
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of ecology and evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Borgeaud Christèle is working as Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne.
Research Interest
After 8 months spent in South Africa for my master thesis on vervet monkeys and almost 2 years at the Kalahari Meerkat Project as a data manager, I started my PhD in the vervet monkey project. For me, sociability and cooperation found in primates and species like meerkats are the most interesting subjects that ethology is studying. Experiments in the field will help to understand how such mechanisms work. The title of my PhD is «Strategic social behaviour in wild vervet monkeys». The Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis proposes that a complex social environment selected for advanced cognitive abilities in vertebrates,especially in primates. Primates typically live in stable social groups where competition over resources like food and mating partners selects for cognitive advances.
Publications
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Borgeaud C, van de Waal E, Bshary R. (2013). Third-party ranks knowledge in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus). PLoS One. 2013 Mar 8;8(3):e58562.
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van de Waal E, Borgeaud C, Whiten A. (2013). Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate’s foraging decisions. Science. 2013 Apr 26;340(6131):483-5.
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Borgeaud C, Sosa S, Bshary R, Sueur C, Van de Waal E. (2016). Intergroup variation of social relationships in wild vervet monkeys: a dynamic network approach. Frontiers in psychology. 2016;7.
