Aug
08

Meet our Scientist: Meg Crofoot, Monkey Monitor

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.

After acquiring her degrees at Stanford and then Harvard, Meg continues to serve as a post‐doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, as well as at STRI, and also teaches in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.

Read more about Meg and her research:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~crofoot/

Produced by Brian Ireley and Johnny Gibbons, Smithsonian Institution

Capuchin footage courteously provided by Jill Bruhn and Rocio-Maria B. Garza
Orangutan photo by Mathieu Fortin
Music: Sanidade (Drums in the Street Mix) by Incarnadine

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Posted: 8 August 2011
About the Author:

Brian Ireley is a digital media specialist at the Smithsonian’s Central Office of Public Affairs. Specializing in science communication and multimedia production, most of Brian’s work aims to make nerdy topics more accessible and fun.