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Research
Latest papers
Valuing Behavioral By-Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates.
American journal of primatology · 2026 · first author
Sex and Age Differences in Decision-Making Under Risk by Wild Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis): A Field Experimental Study.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026 · senior author
Carrying the dead: behavior of a primiparous capuchin monkey mother and other individuals towards a dead infant.
Primates; journal of primatology · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $34,163
Socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological drivers of wildlife perception and use in Grenada: Towards a sustainable human-nature coexistence
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
The puzzle of sexual orientation: what is it and how does it work
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $203,000
The hows and whys of non-adaptive cultural behaviours in macaques
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
32 publications.
Valuing Behavioral By-Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates.
Leca JB, Gunst N, Vasey PL, Huffman MA
Sex and Age Differences in Decision-Making Under Risk by Wild Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis): A Field Experimental Study.
Bunselmeyer C, Gunst N, Wandia IN, Williams RJ, Addessi E, Leca JB
Carrying the dead: behavior of a primiparous capuchin monkey mother and other individuals towards a dead infant.
Delval I, Fernández-Bolaños M, Izar P, Leca JB
Same-sex love triangles in female monkeys: Intra-sexual mate competition between female Japanese macaques for female sexual partners.
Gunst N, Leca JB, Vasey PL
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration.
De Moor D, Skelton M, MacaqueNet, Amici F, Arlet ME, Balasubramaniam KN, Ballesta S, Berghänel A, Berman CM, Bernstein SK, Bhattacharjee D, Bliss-Moreau E, Brotcorne F, Butovskaya M, Campbell LAD, Carosi M, Chatterjee M, Cooper MA, Cowl VB, De la O C, De Marco A, Dettmer AM, Dhawale AK, Erinjery JJ, Evans CL, Fischer J, García-Nisa I, Giraud G, Hammer R, Hansen MF, Holzner A, Kaburu S, Konečná M, Kumara HN, Larrivaz M, Leca JB, Legrand M, Lehmann J, Li JH, Lezé AS, MacIntosh A, Majolo B, Maréchal L, Marty PR, Massen JJM, Maulany RI, McCowan B, McFarland R, Merieau P, Meunier H, Micheletta J, Mishra PS, Sah SAM, Molesti S, Morrow KS, Müller-Klein N, Ngakan PO, Palagi E, Petit O, Pflüger LS, di Sorrentino EP, Raghaven R, Raimbault G, Ram S, Reichard UH, Riley EP, Rincon AV, Ruppert N, Sadoughi B, Santhosh K, Schino G, Sheeran LK, Silk JB, Singh M, Sinha A, Sosa S, Stribos MS, Sueur C, Tiddi B, Tkaczynski PJ, Trebouet F, Widdig A, Whitehouse J, Wooddell LJ, Xia DP, von Fersen L, Young C, Schülke O, Ostner J, Neumann C, Duboscq J, Brent LJN
Monkey-deer rodeo: exploring the mounting behaviours of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) on Sika deer (Cervus nippon).
Depret L, Ohshima A, Allanic M, Leca JB, Gunst N, Sueur C
Behavioral mirroring in Wistar rats investigated through temporal pattern analysis.
Casarrubea M, Leca JB, Gunst N, Aiello S, Crescimanno G
Towards a three-level neo-Tinbergenian approach to object play: Structure, causes and consequences of a behavioral puzzle.
Leca JB
A tool to act blind? Object-assisted eye-covering as a self-handicapping behavior and social play signal in Balinese long-tailed macaques.
Gunst N, Pellis SM, Wandia IN, Leca JB
Blowing the lid off! Bottle-directed, extractive foraging strategies in synurbic bonnet macaques Macaca radiata in southern India.
Pal A, Mahato S, Leca JB, Sinha A
Socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological drivers of wildlife perception and use in Grenada: Towards a sustainable human-nature coexistence
Principal investigators: Leca, Jean-Baptiste
Keywords: (1) Community-based conservation; (2) Sustainablity; (3) Human-wildlife conflict; (4) Hunting pressure; (5) Bushmeat trade; (6) Introduced Primates; (7) Biomonitoring
The puzzle of sexual orientation: what is it and how does it work
Principal investigators: Vasey, Paul L.
Keywords: sexual orientation; sexual arousal; sexual and gender diversity; identity
The hows and whys of non-adaptive cultural behaviours in macaques
Principal investigators: Leca, Jean-Baptiste
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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