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Anja M. Deppe

Education:

2002, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, BS: Biology

Current Position:

Ph.D. Candidate, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook

Advisor:

Dr. Patricia Wright

Email:

adeppe@ic.sunysb.edu

Research Sites:

Ranomafana National Park, 2003 - today

Research Projects:

- Predator recognition in wild brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus).
- Long-term spatial continuity and distribution and the social behavior of the brown mouse lemur in RNP

Research Focus:

I am interested in cognitive abilities, sensory ecology and cognitive ecology of primates. I am currently investigating experimentally if and how a small nocturnal primate detects predators via three sensory system, vision, hearing, and olfaction. By looking at specific behavioral responses to predator models, vocalization play-backs and scents, I hope to better understand how environmental information is processed and interpreted by primates. Findings may further help to gain a better understanding in what ecological context primate characteristics, such as large brains and acute vision, may have evolved.
In a collaboration with two other researchers, one from Madagascar, I am also looking at our study population in a long-term context. Since 2003 we have 80 individually marked mouse lemurs that we track yearly using trap-recapture methods and recently also radio telemetry.

Research
Assistants:

Zaka

Publications:

Papers

Deppe AM, Randriamiarisoa M, Schuette K, Wright PC. (in press). A brief lemur survey of the Ranomafana National Park-Andringitra Reserve corridor region in Tolongoina, Southeast Madagascar. Lemur News.

Deppe AM, Randriamiarisoa M, Kasprak A, Wright PC (in review). Predation on the brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) by a diurnal carnivore, the ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans).

Deppe AM, Wright PC (in review). Object permanence in four species of lemur: red- fronted brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus rufus), mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz), ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) and grey bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus).

Abstracts

Deppe AM, Wright PC (in press). Owl recognition via visual, olfactory and auditory sensory cues in a small nocturnal primate, Microcebus rufus, in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Prosimian Cogress, SA.

Randriamiarisoa M, Deppe AM, Wright PC. (in press). Sleeping group and sleeping site characteristics in a small nocturnal rain forest primate, the brown mouse lemur Microcebus rufus in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Prosimian Congress, SA.

Deppe AM. Randriamiariso M, Wright PC. 2007. Mammalian Predator recognition via olfactory cues in wild brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl 44:99.

Deppe AM and Wright PC. 2006. Visual and olfactory snake recognition in wild brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus). Primate Report 73(1):12.

Deppe AM. 2006. Visual snake recognition in wild brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus). American Journal of Primatology 68(suppl 1):34.

Deppe AM (2005) Visual predator recognition and response in wild brown mouse lemurs (Microcebus rufus) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Primatology.:97-98.

Musto N, Deppe AM, Randrianasolo L, Wright PC. 2005. Predation avoidance may affect habitat preference of the brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. American Journal of Primatology 66(Suppl1):87.

Deppe AM and Wright PC. 2004. Possible intergeneric differences in finding objects among lemurs. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl 38:86.

Project Sponsors:

Conservation International, Primate Conservation, Inc., Idea Wild, the National Science Foundation, and Stony Brook University.

N-543 SBS Bldg, SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364
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