Erin DeMeester

B.S. Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, 2006
B.S. Biology, Hope College, 2000
B.A. English, Hope College, 2000

Contact
Moore 1039
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Research interests: Behavioral ecology of primates and other social animals (carnivores, birds, insects), morphological and behavioral evolution, phenotypic and developmental plasticity, conservation, biodiversity.

Regional focus: Mesoamerica, John Ball Zoo

A closer look: Erin DeMeester is a biological anthropologist whose current research focuses on the environmental influence on behavior patterns of captive spider monkeys at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is also studying the developmental patterns of infant, juvenile, and subadult play in spider monkeys, an ongoing project of more than two years, and has done research on the association between relatedness and affiliative patterns in the same group of monkeys.