Tony Weingrill

Researcher & Postdocs

My main research interest is in behavioural ecology of primates. In the past, I have studied reproductive strategies and socioendocrinology of wild chacma baboons and economic behaviour of captive vervet monkeys. Recently, I have started a new project that integrates behavior with genetics and endocrinology in wild and captive orangutans. One goal is the collection of genetic data from the remaining populations on Sumatra and Borneo. This data is important to explain geographic variation in orangutan behaviour. The other goal is to measure glucocorticoid metabolites in wild and captive orangutans. This will increase our understanding of the physiological responses of primates to changes in their environment. The hormone project will complement the conservation aspects of genetic studies carried out in our research group and will provide important information to identify priority populations for which conservation efforts need to be intensified and to improve housing conditions of captive orang-utans.

Diploma in Zoology, University of Zurich

PhD, Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich

• R. A. Hill & T. Weingrill (2007). Predation risk and habitat use in chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus). In: Gursky, S. & Nekaris K.A.I. (eds.) Primate Anti-Predator Strategies. Kluwer Academic Publishers (Developments in Primatology Series).
• T. Weingrill, C. Stanisière & R. Noë (2005). Training vervets to avoid electric wires: Is there evidence for social learning? Zoo Biology 24: 145-151.
• T. Weingrill, D.A. Gray, L. Barrett & S.P. Henzi (2004). Fecal cortisol levels in free-ranging female chacmas baboons: relationship to dominance, reproductive state and environmental factors. Hormones and Behavior 45: 259-269.
• R.A. Hill, T. Weingrill, L. Barrett, & S.P. Henzi (2004). Indices of environmental temperature for primates in open habitats. Primates 45: 7-13
• R.A. Hill, L. Barrett, D. Gaynor, T. Weingrill, P. Dixon, H. Payne & S.P. Henzi (2004). Day length variation and seasonal analysis of behaviour. South African Journal of Wildlife Research34: 39-44.
• T. Weingrill, J.E. Lycett, R.A. Hill, L. Barrett & S.P. Henzi (2003). Male consortship behaviour in chacma baboons: the role of demographic factors and female conceptive probabilities. Behaviour 140: 405-427.
• S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett, D. Gaynor, J. Greeff, T. Weingrill & R.A. Hill (2003). The effect of resource competition on the long-term allocation of grooming by female baboons: evaluating Seyfarth’s model. Animal Behaviour 66: 931-938.
• R.A. Hill, L. Barrett, D. Gaynor, T. Weingrill, P. Dixon, H. Payne & S.P. Henzi (2003). Day length, latitude and behavioural (in) flexibility in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 53: 278-286.
• T. Weingrill. Infanticide and the value of male-female relationships in mountain chacma baboons (2000). Behaviour 137: 337-359.
• T. Weingrill, J.E. Lycett. & S.P. Henzi (2000). Consortship and mating success in chacma baboons. Ethology 106: 1033-1044.
• L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi, T. Weingrill, J.E. Lycett & R. A. Hill (2000). Female Baboons do not raise the stakes but they give as good as they get. Animal Behaviour 59: 763-770
• S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett, A. Weingrill, P. Dixon & R.A. Hill (2000). Ruths amid and the alien corn: males and the translocation of female chacma baboons. South African Journal of Science 96: 61-62.
• S.P. Henzi, J.E. Lycett, A. Weingrill & S.E. Piper (2000). Social bonds and the coherence of mountain baboon troops. Behaviour 137: 663-680.
• L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi, T. Weingrill, J.E. Lycett & R.A. Hill (1999). Market forces predict grooming reciprocity in female baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences Series B 266: 665-670.
• S.P. Henzi, T. Weingrill & L. Barrett (1999). Male behaviour and the evolutionary ecology of chacma baboons. South African Journal of Science 95: 240-242.
• J.E. Lycett, S.P. Henzi & T.Weingrill (1999). Birth patterns in the Drakensberg Mountain baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). South African Journal of Science 95: 354-356.
• S.P. Henzi, J.E. Lycett & T. Weingrill (1998). Mate guarding and risk assessment by male mountain baboons during inter-troop encounters. Animal Behaviour 55: 1421-1428.
• S.P. Henzi, J.E. Lycett, T. Weingrill, R. Byrne & A. Whiten. The effect of troop size on travel and foraging in mountain baboons. South African Journal of Science (1997) 93: 333-335.
• S.P. Henzi, J.E. Lycett & T. Weingrill (1997). Cohort size and the allocation of social effort by female mountain baboons. Animal Behaviour 45: 1235-1243.

A. Weingrill (1998). Male reproductive strategies of mountain baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). PhD Thesis, University of Zurich.

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