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Overview

Oliver Schülke is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research portfolio spans multiple studies focusing on animal behavior, primate ecology, and psychological aspects of sociality.

The scientist has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • "Bonds of bros and brothers: Kinship and social bonding in postdispersal male macaques," 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • "Aging gut microbiota of wild macaques are equally diverse, less stable, but progressively personalized," 2022, Microbiome
  • "Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions," 2022, The Leadership Quarterly
  • "Quantifying within-group variation in sociality-covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species," 2022, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers," 2021, American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborative research efforts and include:

  • Julia Ostner
  • Michael Heistermann
  • Peter M. Kappeler
  • Julia Fischer
  • Suchinda Malaivijitnond

Oliver Schülke's work is regularly published in venues that include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Microbiome

Their primary fields of study are:

  • Psychology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, notable subfields include:

  • Social Psychology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Developmental Biology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Molecular Biology

The main topics of Oliver Schülke's research focus on:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Best Publications

  • Social Bonds Enhance Reproductive Success in Male Macaques

    Oliver Schülke;Jyotsna Bhagavatula;Linda Vigilant;Julia Ostner

  • Responses to social and environmental stress are attenuated by strong male bonds in wild macaques.

    Christopher Young;Christopher Young;Bonaventura Majolo;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke

  • Dominance, aggression and physiological stress in wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

    Julia Ostner;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke

  • Female reproductive synchrony predicts skewed paternity across primates

    Julia Ostner;Charles Lindsay Nunn;Oliver Schülke

  • Linking Sociality to Fitness in Primates: A Call for Mechanisms

    Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke

  • Social bonds predict future cooperation in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus

    Andreas Berghänel;Julia Ostner;Uta Schröder;Oliver Schülke

  • So near and yet so far: territorial pairs but low cohesion between pair partners in a nocturnal lemur, Phaner furcifer

    Oliver Schülke;Peter M Kappeler

  • Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: A life history trade-off.

    Andreas Berghänel;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

  • Ecological and social influences on sociality

    Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner

  • Prenatal stress accelerates offspring growth to compensate for reduced maternal investment across mammals.

    Andreas Berghänel;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

  • The evolution of social bonds in primate males

    Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • To breed or not to breed—food competition and other factors involved in female breeding decisions in the pair-living nocturnal fork-marked lemur ( Phaner furcifer )

    Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke

  • Food abundance affects energy intake and reproduction in frugivorous female Assamese macaques

    Marlies Heesen;Sebastian Rogahn;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • Stable heterosexual associations in a promiscuous primate

    Julia Ostner;Linda Vigilant;Jyotsna Bhagavatula;Mathias Franz

  • Reproductive and Life History Parameters of Wild Female Macaca assamensis

    Ines Fürtbauer;Oliver Schülke;Michael Heistermann;Julia Ostner

  • Personality structure and social style in macaques

    Mark James Adams;Bonaventura Majolo;Julia Ostner;Oliver Schülke

  • Small testes size despite high extra-pair paternity in the pair-living nocturnal primate Phaner furcifer

    Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke;Oliver Schülke;Peter M. Kappeler;Hans Zischler

  • Male competition and its hormonal correlates in Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

    Julia Ostner;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke

  • You mate, I mate: macaque females synchronize sex not cycles.

    Ines Fürtbauer;Roger Mundry;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke

  • Prenatal stress effects in a wild, long-lived primate: predictive adaptive responses in an unpredictable environment.

    Andreas Berghänel;Michael Heistermann;Oliver Schülke;Julia Ostner;Julia Ostner

  • Ecology of an endemic primate species (Macaca siberu) on Siberut Island, Indonesia.

    Christin Richter;Ahmad Taufiq;Keith Hodges;Julia Ostner

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Ostner
Julia Ostner University of Göttingen
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Bonaventura Majolo
Bonaventura Majolo University of Lincoln
Peter M. Kappeler
Peter M. Kappeler German Primate Center
Christina Strube
Christina Strube University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Dietmar Zinner
Dietmar Zinner German Primate Center
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Claudia Fichtel
Claudia Fichtel German Primate Center
Cyril C. Grueter
Cyril C. Grueter University of Western Australia
Lars Penke
Lars Penke University of Göttingen

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