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49
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8179
World Ranking
4070
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277

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

S. Peter Henzi is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing primarily on social psychology and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics as subfields. Their scholarly work frequently addresses the behavior and ecology of primates, animal behavior and reproduction, and various aspects of animal vocal communication and neuroendocrine regulation.

The scientist's publication record includes peer-reviewed articles in a diverse range of academic journals. Recent contributions include:

  • Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Fevers and the social costs of acute infection in wild vervet monkeys, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Field data confirm the ability of a biophysical model to predict wild primate body temperature, 2020, Journal of Thermal Biology
  • Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species, 2021, Animal Behaviour

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Henzi include Louise Barrett, Tyler R. Bonnell, Christopher Young, Chloé Vilette, and Richard McFarland. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers engaged in exploring various aspects of behavior, cognition, and ecology.

Key publication venues favored by Henzi consist of Animal Behaviour, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), American Journal of Primatology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). The consistency in publishing within these forums indicates active engagement with communities focused on primate behavior and biological sciences.

The main topics of Henzi's scientific investigations include:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Henzi has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, an honor indicating contribution to the scientific community, although the specific year of the award is not documented.

Best Publications

  • Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks

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

  • Market forces predict grooming reciprocity in female baboons

    L. Barrett;L. Barrett;S. P. Henzi;T. Weingrill;T. Weingrill;J. E. Lycett;J. E. Lycett

  • Fecal cortisol levels in free-ranging female chacma baboons: relationship to dominance, reproductive state and environmental factors

    Tony Weingrill;David A Gray;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S.Peter Henzi

  • Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

    Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi;David Lusseau

  • Infants as a commodity in a baboon market

    S.P. Henzi;L. Barrett;L. Barrett

  • A dynamic interaction between aggression and grooming reciprocity among female chacma baboons

    Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;David Gaynor;S.Peter Henzi

  • Dietary and Foraging Strategies of Baboons

    A. Whiten;R. W. Byrne;R. A. Barton;P. G. Waterman

  • Maternal investment in mountain baboons and the hypothesis of reduced care

    John E. Lycett;S. Peter Henzi;Louise Barrett

  • Day length, latitude and behavioural (in)flexibility in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus )

    R. A. Hill;R. A. Hill;L. Barrett;D. Gaynor;T. Weingrill

  • Vigilance, predator detection and the presence of supernumerary males in vervet monkey troops

    Maribel Baldellou;S. Peter Henzi

  • Observations on the Inter-troop movement of adult vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops).

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  • The ‘strength of weak ties’ among female baboons: fitness-related benefits of social bonds

    Richard McFarland;Richard McFarland;Derek Murphy;Derek Murphy;David Lusseau;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi

  • Formalising the multidimensional nature of social networks

    David Lusseau;Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi

  • The behavioral ecology of mountain baboons

    A. Whiten;R. W. Byrne;S. P. Henzi

  • CONSTRAINTS ON RELATIONSHIP FORMATION AMONG FEMALE PRIMATES

    Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi

  • Monkeys, markets and minds: biological markets and primate sociality

    Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi

  • Nutritional constraints on mountain baboons (Papio ursinus): implications for baboon socioecology

    R. W. Byrne;A. Whiten;S. P. Henzi;F. M. McCulloch

  • Social integration confers thermal benefits in a gregarious primate

    Richard McFarland;Richard McFarland;Andrea Fuller;Robyn S. Hetem;Duncan Mitchell;Duncan Mitchell

  • Cohort size and the allocation of social effort by female mountain baboons

    S.Peter Henzi;John E. Lycett;Tony Weingrill

  • Patterns of movement by baboons in the Drakensberg mountains: Primary responses to the environment

    S. P. Henzi;R. W. Byrne;A. Whiten

  • DO FEMALE CHACMA BABOONS COMPETE FOR A SAFE SPATIAL POSITION IN A SOUTHERN WOODLAND HABITAT

    Tamar Ron;S. Peter Henzi;Uzi Motro

  • Male consortship behaviour in chacma baboons: The role of demographic factors and female conceptive probabilities

    Tony Weingrill;John E. Lycett;Louise Barrett;Russell A. Hill

  • Behavioral Flexibility of Vervet Monkeys in Response to Climatic and Social Variability

    Richard McFarland;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;Ria Boner;Natalie J. Freeman;Natalie J. Freeman

  • Economics in Nature: The utility of grooming in baboon troops

    Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi

  • The ecology of motherhood: the structuring of lactation costs by chacma baboons.

    Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;Jo Halliday;Jo Halliday;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi

  • Competition and the Exchange of Grooming Among Female Samango Monkeys (Cercopithecus Mitis Erythrarchus)

    Hallam F. P. Payne;Michael J. Lawes;S. Peter Henzi

  • Population ecology of vervet monkeys in a high latitude, semi-arid riparian woodland

    Graham Pasternak;Leslie Robert Brown;Stefan Kienzle;Andrea Fuller

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise Barrett
Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge
Andre Ganswindt
Andre Ganswindt University of Pretoria
Shane K. Maloney
Shane K. Maloney University of Western Australia
David Lusseau
David Lusseau Technical University of Denmark
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
Warren P. Porter
Warren P. Porter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas V. Pollet
Thomas V. Pollet Northumbria University
Sergio M. Pellis
Sergio M. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews

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