PhD candidate in Primate Behaviour, University of Stirling
Sophia Daoudi is a member of the Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Stirling and the Scottish Primate Research Group. Before starting her PhD she undertook an MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, where she spent 3 months in the Peruvian Andes studying the Critically Endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey as part of her dissertation research. She is currently a teaching assistant on the psychology undergraduate animal behaviour modules, as well as module coordinator for the INTO Stirling introduction to psychology course. Her current research focuses on the behaviour of tufted capuchins and squirrel monkeys in both captive and wild environments. In particular she investigates polyspecific associations between the two.
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