Laura Bidner

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

My research interests are in primate behavioral ecology. I am primarily interested in the variation in predation risk faced by primates in space and time, as well as how primates perceive and are affected by this variation. I recently completed field work for my dissertation during which I simultaneously monitored chacma baboons and radiocollared leopards in South Africa to investigate predation risk. I have also conducted field research in Costa Rica and Peru, and have worked as a teaching assistant at field schools in Costa Rica and South Africa. I am currently in the physical anthropology graduate program at Arizona State. For more information, please click on the pictures at left.

Click here to view a photo gallery of the people behind my research in South Africa!