Paul Garber
American primatologist
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Paul Garber is a primatologist and the author and editor of several books and articles about primates. He is a professor at the University of Illinois.[1] He is editor of the American Journal of Primatology and director of research and education at La Suerte Biological Field School in Costa Rica.[2] Books he has authored or edited include New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates: Distribution, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects),[3] On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups,[4] Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates.[5] and South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation (Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects)[6] In 2014, he co-edited two books on howler monkeys.[7][8] He has also studied interrelationships between the moustached tamarin and the saddleback tamarin.[9][10]
Paul Alan Garber | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis[1] |
| Thesis | Locomotor behavior and feeding ecology of the panamanian tamarin (Saguinus oedipus geoffroyi, callitrichidae, primates) (1980) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Primatology |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Professor Garber received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980.[2]