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Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Fairet, E., Shutt, K., Waters, S., & Bell, S. (2017). Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions. International Journal of Primatology, 38(2), 401-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-016-9938-5

Biodiversity conservation is one of the grand challenges facing society. Many people interested in biodiversity conservation have a background in wildlife biology. However, the diverse social, cultural, political, and historical factors that influenc... Read More about Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions.

Editorial: Changes and Clarifications to the Policies of the International Journal of Primatology to Promote Transparency and Open Communication. (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Fernandez-Duque, E., & Higham, J. (2016). Editorial: Changes and Clarifications to the Policies of the International Journal of Primatology to Promote Transparency and Open Communication. International Journal of Primatology, 37(6), 617-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-016-9925-x

The joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago 2016 provided an opportunity to discuss and update the policies of the International Journal of Primatology, the official journal of t... Read More about Editorial: Changes and Clarifications to the Policies of the International Journal of Primatology to Promote Transparency and Open Communication..

Drills and mandrills (2016)
Book Chapter
Setchell, J. (2017). Drills and mandrills. In A. Fuentes (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of primatology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0195

Drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus) and mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) are the only two extant species in the genus Mandrillus. They are large, highly sexually dimorphic, and extremely colorful. They live in very large groups in the rainforests of west ce... Read More about Drills and mandrills.

Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Richards, S., Abbott, K., & Knapp, L. (2016). Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype. Behavioral Ecology, 27(6), 1756-1766. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw106

Female choice for male major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genotype has been widely tested, but the relationship between male mating strategies and female MHC genotype has received far less attention. Moreover, few studies of MHC-associated mate c... Read More about Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype.

Sexual Selection and the Differences Between the Sexes in Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J. (2016). Sexual Selection and the Differences Between the Sexes in Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). American journal of physical anthropology, 159(S61), S105-S129. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22904

Sexual selection has become a major focus in evolutionary and behavioral ecology. It is also a popular research topic in primatology. I use studies of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx), a classic example of extravagant armaments and ornaments in animals,... Read More about Sexual Selection and the Differences Between the Sexes in Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).

John Knight. Herding monkeys to paradise: how macaque troops are managed for tourism in Japan. xvi, 628 pp., figs, illus., bibliogr. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. £132.00 (paper) (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J. (2016). John Knight. Herding monkeys to paradise: how macaque troops are managed for tourism in Japan. xvi, 628 pp., figs, illus., bibliogr. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. £132.00 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(1), 247-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12376