Dr. Christine Haunhorst

Main scientific interests

Professional history and field experience

Since January 2013: PhD Student, Behavioral Ecology. "The adaptive significance of male-female relationships in wild Assamese macaques, Thailand".
July 2011 - July 2012: Field and Research Assistant in PhD project about novelty seeking in wild vervet monkeys, South Africa.
July 2010 - March 2011: Diploma thesis; population ecology of the puku antelope in Zambia; University of Würzburg.
July - September 2008: Field study on feeding ecology of bats, Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
2008 - 2011: Studies of Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany (Diplom).
2005 - 2008: Studies of Biology, University of Mainz, Germany (Vordiplom).

Publications

Haunhorst C, Heesen M, Ostner J & Schülke O (2017) Social bonds with males lower costs of competition for wild female Assamese macaques, Animal Behaviour 165, 51-60
Haunhorst C, Schülke O and Ostner J (2016) Opposite-sex social bonding in wild Assamese macaques, American Journal of Primatology 78, 872-882

Conference contributions

Haunhorst C, Schülke O & Ostner J (2016) How female Assamese macaques benefit from opposite-sex social bonds, 11th Ethological Society Meeting (ESM), Göttingen (Presentation)
Haunhorst C, Schülke O & Ostner J (2015) Costs of competition for access to males in wild female Assamese macaques, 6th European Federation for Primatology Meeting (EFP), Rome (Poster)
Haunhorst C, Schülke O & Ostner J (2015) The nature of male-female relationships in wild Assamese macaques, 14th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP), Leipzig (Presentation)
Haunhorst C, Schülke O & Ostner J (2014) Male-female bonds in wild Assamese macaques, 25th Meeting of the International Primatological Society (IPS), Hanoi (Poster)
Blaszczyk M & Haunhorst C (2012) Social behaviour and foraging ecology of vervet monkeys at Soetdoring Nature Reserve, Free State, Primate Ecology and Genetics Group Meeting (Presentation)