Eve Smeltzer
Eve Smeltzer (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Teichroeb Lab (UTSC) who studies primate behavioural ecology. Her doctoral research centers on the determinants of leadership and consensus when primate groups decide where and when to move. Currently, she conducts her research with vervet monkeys at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. Her doctoral research on collective movements has piqued her interest in sleeping sites as a collective group decision that may have rank-related consensus costs. Positions within sleeping sites may be contestable resources with differential costs and benefits to sleep quality.
Research Interests
- Collective movement
- Sleeping site choice & variability
- Intragroup competition for sleep/sleeping positions
- Consequences of differential resource access
- Decision-making
- Cooperation
Publications
2022 - Smeltzer, EA, Stead, SM, Li MF, Samson, D, Kumpan, LT, Teichroeb, JA. Social sleepers: the effects of social status on sleep in terrestrial mammals. Revised and resubmitted to Horm Behav.
2022 - Kumpan, LT, Vining, AQ, Joyce, MM, Aguado, WD, Smeltzer, EA, Turner, SE, Teichroeb, JA. Do primates really trapline? Mild recursions and evidence for variable cognitive mechanisms in five species. Submitted to Sci Rep.
2022 - Li, MF, Smeltzer, EA, Teichroeb, JA. Grooming and spatial proximity predict feeding tolerance in wild vervet monkeys. Revised and resubmitted to Am J Primatol.
2021 - Li, MF, Arseneau-Robar, TJ, Smeltzer, EA, Teichroeb, JA. Be early or be tolerated: Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) foraging strategies in a dispersed resource. Anim Behav 176: 1-15.
2020 - Kumpan, LT, Smeltzer, EA, Teichroeb, JA. Animal cognition in the field: performance of wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) on a reversal learning task. Anim Cogn 23(3): 523-524.
2018 - Teichroeb, JA, Smeltzer, EA. Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) behavior in a multi-destination route: evidence for planning ahead when heuristics fail. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0198076.