Achievement

Trainee Michelle Brown has been learning and developing agent-based modeling techniques, most commonly used by social scientists and computational biologists, to model the effects of digestive constraints on primate grouping, ranging, and foraging behavior. This approach is relatively novel for behavioral ecologists and allows us to explore large-scale implications of concepts that are difficult to test in natural settings. She has benefited from a new course taught by NYCEP faculty member Anthony DiFiore on this technique.