Associate Professor Andreas Koenig
Ph.D. Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany, 1992
Contact Information:
email:
akoenig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Phone: (631) 632-1513
Research Interests:
Andreas Koenig's research focuses on the evolution of sociality and social behavior in nonhuman primates. He has worked on South American Callitrichine monkeys in order to test hypotheses on predator-prey interaction, evolution of social organization and communal rearing of infants. Currently he is concerned with the costs and benefits of sociality and the ecology of female social relationships of Hanuman langurs. The second major interest concerns reproductive seasonality and mating strategies in primates.
Together with his wife, Carola Borries, he established a field project in Northeastern Thailand. The major aims of research are to test and improve current models on the evolution of group life, evolutionary ecology of social structure in general and female social relationships in particular. Fieldwork is conducted on Phayre's leaf monkeys. The approach is long-term and multidisciplinary, i.e. combining basic ecological measures with questions on ecological and social constraints on male and female reproduction as well as with questions on mate choice, paternity and kinship.
