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Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: an assessment of knowledge and attitudes (2021)
Journal Article
Daniels, C., Cheyne, S. M., Waters, S., & Svensson, M. S. (2021). Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: an assessment of knowledge and attitudes. The Journal of zoo and aquarium research, 9(4), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v9i4.634

In January 2021, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Primate Specialist Group Section for Human Primate Interactions (IUCN PSG SHPI) published best practice guidelines on the use of non-human primate imagery online. This paper ex... Read More about Professional primate keepers and online primate imagery: an assessment of knowledge and attitudes.

Decolonising Primate Conservation Practice: A Case Study from North Morocco (2021)
Journal Article
Waters, S., El Harrad, A., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2022). Decolonising Primate Conservation Practice: A Case Study from North Morocco. International Journal of Primatology, 43(6), 1046-1066. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00228-0

Understanding the historical context of an area enables an incoming conservationist to reflect on their role in communities and to better position themselves both politically and socially within them. Here, we explore how outside agencies and institu... Read More about Decolonising Primate Conservation Practice: A Case Study from North Morocco.

Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists (2019)
Journal Article
Norconk, M. A., Atsalis, S., Tully, G., Santillán, A. M., Waters, S., Knott, C. D., …Stiles, D. (2020). Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists. American Journal of Primatology, 82(1), Article e23079. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23079

This commentary emerged from a panel presentation at the International Primatological Society Congress in Nairobi, Kenya, 2018. The goal was to provide regional updates on the status of primate removal from habitat countries, especially for the pet t... Read More about Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists.

Interpreting People’s Behaviour Toward Primates Using Qualitative Data: A Case Study from North Morocco (2019)
Journal Article
Waters, S., El Harrad, A., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2019). Interpreting People’s Behaviour Toward Primates Using Qualitative Data: A Case Study from North Morocco. International Journal of Primatology, 40(3), 316-330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-019-00087-w

People’s perceptions of primates vary across and within cultures and may not be consistent with their behavior toward the primates themselves. We used qualitative data from semistructured and unstructured interviews with shepherds from 10 villages ar... Read More about Interpreting People’s Behaviour Toward Primates Using Qualitative Data: A Case Study from North Morocco.

Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco (2018)
Journal Article
Waters, S., Watson, T., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 64(6), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-018-1230-x

Conservationists consider open and direct communication as best practice even when their data conflict with local beliefs. However, ensuring the effective delivery of a controversial message without overtly challenging community identity is difficult... Read More about Communicating for Conservation: Circumventing Conflict with Communities over Domestic Dog Ownership in North Morocco.

Ethnographic Approaches in Primatology (2018)
Journal Article
Dore, K. M., Radford, L., Alexander, S., & Waters, S. (2018). Ethnographic Approaches in Primatology. Folia Primatologica, 89(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1159/000485693

The shared evolutionary histories and anatomical similarities between humans and non-human primates create dynamic interconnections between these alloprimates. In this foreword to Folia Primatologica's special issue on “Ethnographic Approaches in Pri... Read More about Ethnographic Approaches in Primatology.

On the rocks: using discourse analysis to examine relationships between Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and people on Gibraltar (2018)
Journal Article
Radford, L., Alexander, S., & Waters, S. (2018). On the rocks: using discourse analysis to examine relationships between Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and people on Gibraltar. Folia Primatologica, 89(1), 30-44. https://doi.org/10.1159/000485125

Primates are difficult to categorise due to some of the human-like characteristics they possess. Here, we examine the complexities that exist in a commensal relationship between an introduced population of Barbary macaques and local human populations... Read More about On the rocks: using discourse analysis to examine relationships between Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and people on Gibraltar.

Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco (2018)
Journal Article
Waters, S., Bell, S., & Setchell, J. M. (2018). Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco. Folia Primatologica, 89(1), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1159/000480079

Strategies for conserving species threatened with extinction are often driven by ecological data. However, in anthropogenic landscapes, understanding and incorporating local people's perceptions may enhance species conservation. We examine the relati... Read More about Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco.

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.