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Phyllis C. Lee is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and focuses their research on Environmental Science and Psychology. Their work spans a range of subjects within these fields, including Social Psychology, Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Lee's research topics prominently feature Primate Behavior and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Play in Elephants: Wellbeing, Welfare or Distraction? (2020, Animals)
  • Loss of Earth's old, wise, and large animals (2024, Science)
  • Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants (2021, Behavioral Ecology)
  • Outcomes, evidence-based treatments, and disparities in a statewide outpatient children's behavioral health system (2020, Children and Youth Services Review)
  • A Case Study Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality in the Zoo Context (2021, Animal Behavior and Cognition)

Frequent collaborators in Lee's research include:

  • Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
  • Cynthia J. Moss
  • Norah Njiraini
  • Vicki Fishlock
  • Sophia Daoudi-Simison

Lee frequently publishes in several venues, such as Science, Animals, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Pachyderm, and EDULEARN proceedings.

Best Publications

  • Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks

    Filippo Aureli;Colleen M Schaffner;Christophe Boesch;Simon K Bearder

  • The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]

    Lars Rodseth;Richard W. Wrangham;Alisa M. Harrigan;Barbara B. Smuts

  • The impact of wildlife-related benefits on the conservation attitudes of local people around the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

    Sarah Gillingham;Phyllis C. Lee

  • Growth, weaning and maternal investment from a comparative perspective

    P. C. Lee;P. Majluf;I. J. Gordon

  • Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution.

    R A Foley;P C Lee

  • Finite social space, evolutionary pathways, and reconstructing hominid behavior.

    RA Foley;PC Lee

  • Early maternal investment in male and female African elephant calves

    Phyllis C. Lee;Cynthia J. Moss

  • The meanings of weaning: Growth, lactation, and life history

    P. C. Lee

  • Allomothering among African elephants.

    P.C. Lee

  • The movement of African elephants in a human-dominated land-use mosaic

    Max D Graham;Iain Douglas-Hamilton;William M Adams;Phyllis C Lee

  • Capuchin stone tool use in Caatinga dry forest.

    A. C. de A. Moura;P. C. Lee

  • Nutrition, fertility and maternal investment in primates

    Phyllis C. Lee

  • Predation risk as an influence on group size in cercopithecoid primates: implications for social structure

    R. A. Hill;R. A. Hill;P. C. Lee

  • The Amboseli elephants : a long-term perspective on a long-lived mammal

    Cynthia J. Moss;Harvey Croze;Phyllis C. Lee

  • Compromised Survivorship in Zoo Elephants

    Ros Clubb;Marcus Rowcliffe;Phyllis C Lee;Khyne U Mar;Khyne U Mar

  • People and protected areas: a study of local perceptions of wildlife crop-damage conflict in an area bordering the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

    Sarah Gillingham;Phyllis C. Lee

  • Behavioral correlates of non-random mortality among free-ranging female vervet monkeys

    D. L. Cheney;P. C. Lee;R. M. Seyfarth

  • Growth and ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism in the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)

    Joanna M. Setchell;Phyllis C. Lee;E. Jean Wickings;Alan F. Dixson

  • Statural growth in known‐age African elephants (Loxodonta africana)

    P. C. Lee;C. J. Moss

  • Patterns of crop-raiding by elephants, Loxodonta africana, in Laikipia, Kenya, and the management of human–elephant conflict

    Maximilian D. Graham;Benedikt Notter;William M. Adams;Phyllis C. Lee

  • Association patterns of African elephants in all-male groups: the role of age and genetic relatedness

    Patrick I. Chiyo;Elizabeth A. Archie;Julie A. Hollister-Smith;Phyllis C. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan C. Alberts
Susan C. Alberts Duke University
Elizabeth A. Archie
Elizabeth A. Archie University of Notre Dame
Samuel K. Wasser
Samuel K. Wasser University of Washington
Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
Robert Foley
Robert Foley University of Cambridge
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith University of Stirling
Tristan Quaife
Tristan Quaife University of Reading

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