https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/tags/behavior/BehaviorHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usWed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/media/icon_hu_763e93639dc05fb8.pnghttps://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/tags/behavior/https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/projects/cascading-effects/Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/projects/cascading-effects/<h2 id="project-aim">Project Aim</h2> <p>For long-lived animals, behavioral flexibility is essential in the face of rapid anthropogenic change. Therefore, we are examining how climate change impacts red colobus food availability, how the monkey adjust their behavior, and how climate, food availablity, and behavior together influence demographic patterns. Building on previous research on red colobus foraging and habitat use, and analyzing long-term leaf phenology data (1998 to 2021), our first results show that leaf production of preferred tree species are linked to solar radiation and atmospheric CO2 ( . Ongoing analyses investigate the behavioral and demographic consequences of these patterns.</p> <h3 id="contact-information">Contact Information</h3> <p>Urs Kalbitzer, Laura Lüthy</p>https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/projects/primate-behavior-ecology/Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kibale-ecology-conservation.netlify.app/projects/primate-behavior-ecology/<h3 id="project-desciption-and-aims">Project Desciption and Aims</h3> <p>Nonhuman primates’ social and dietary diversity make them ideal for testing socioecological hypotheses. Kibale National Park is exceptional in this regard, with 13 primate species spanning diverse diets, group sizes and dynamics, social structures, mating systems, movement patterns, and other behavioral dimensions. Within this context, we investigate the causes and consequences of behavioral variation, with an emphasis on the folivorous Ugandan red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles).</p> <p>Current projects, drawing on more than a decade of data, examine context-dependent dietary preferences (using tree phenology and distribution), social relationships, and ranging. Ongoing work integrates high-resolution food-resource maps with behavioral observations and GPS-collar data to link food distribution to social dynamics, activity budgets, and movement.</p> <h3 id="contact-information">Contact Information</h3> <p>Urs Kalbitzer, Colin Chapman, Martin Golooba</p>