Video: Meet our scientist Meg Crofoot, primate researcher in Panama. Meg studies intergroup competition in white‐faced capuchin monkeys.

Posted on 24 August 2011

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Meet Meg Crofoot, a primate researcher on Barro Colorado Island at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Meg studies intergroup competition in white‐faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) by tracking them through radio telemetry collars and observing their behaviors.

Meg is a post‐doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, as well as at the Tropical Research Institute, and also teaches in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.

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