Professor Andreas Koenig
Ph.D. Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany, 1992
Contact Information:
email:
Andreas.Koenig@stonybrook.edu
Phone: (631) 632-1513
Research Interests:
Andreas Koenig's research revolves around the evolution of sociality and social behavior in nonhuman primates digressing occasionally into reproductive seasonality, life history, community ecology, taxonomy, and research methods. While he is currently working primarily with Asian colobines, his work covers platyrrhines (Callitrichinae), cercopithecoids (Colobinae, Cercopithecinae), and to some extent lesser apes (Hylobatidae). He has worked on captive South American callitrichine monkeys (primarily common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus) in order to test hypotheses on predator-prey interactions, reproductive strategies, and cooperative infant care. In addition, he studied wild Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) focusing particularly on costs of group size and ecological effects on female social relationships. In the last years he has been studying wild Phayre's leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus) focusing on the costs and benefits of sociality, the ecology of female relationships, and male reproductive strategies.
Recent Publications:
Koenig A, Borries C. 2012, in press. Social organization and male residence pattern in Phayre's leaf monkeys. In Kappeler PM, Watts DP (eds) Long-term field studies of primates. Springer, Berlin. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-22514-7_10
Borries C, Lu A, Ossi-Lupo K, Larney E, Koenig A. 2011. Primate life histories and dietary adaptations: a comparison of Asian colobines and macaques. Am J Phys Anthropol 144:286-299. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21403
Borries A, Savini T, Koenig A. 2011 Social monogamy and the threat of infanticide in larger mammals. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65:685-693. doi:10. 1007/s00265-010-1070-5
Lu A, Beehner JC, Czekala NM, Koenig A, Larney E, Borries C. 2011. Phytochemicals and reproductive function in wild female Phayre's leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus). Horm Behav 59:28-36. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.09.012
Phoonjampa R, Koenig A, Brockelman WY, Borries C, Gale GA, Carroll JP, Savini T. 2011. Pileated gibbon density in relation to habitat characteristics and post logging recovery. Biotropica 43:619-627. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00743.x
