Dr. Claudia Fichtel

Address Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH
Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung
Abteilung Verhaltensökologie und Soziobiologie
Kellnerweg 4
37077 Göttingen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Evolution of prosocial behavior: a meta-analysis and new experiments (Research Grants)
  - Proximate and ultimate drivers of an unusual adult sex ratio in redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) (Research Grants)
  - From Branch to Branch: Unravelling Primate Vision in Arboreal Leaping and Navigation (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Phylogenese und Ontogenese von Alarmrufen bei Lemuren (Research Grants)
  - Intergroup relationships in Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi) (Research Grants)
  - Roots of primate cognition: the Primate Cognition Test Battery applied to three species of lemurs (Microcebus murinus, Varecia variegata and Lemur catta) (Research Grants)
  - Does is pay to be smart? Cognition and fitness in gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) (Research Grants)
  - Communicative complexity in primates: sociality and multimodal communication in two species of lemurs (Research Grants)
  - Social relationships: key to gut microbiome composition in wild redfronted lemurs? (Research Units)
  - Causes, mechanisms and consequences of female competition in red-fronted lemurs (Research Grants)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - GRK 2906: Curiosity (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Social learning in social networks: on the interplay between innovation, information transmission and individuals’ social value (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Gruppenkoordination bei Rotstirnmakis (Eulemur fulvus rufus) (Research Grants)
  - Biodiversity of the brown lemur complex:Taxonomy and phylogeography of Eulemur fulvus ssp. (Research Grants)