Dr Stuart Semple

Job Title: Reader Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3528 Email Address: S.Semple@roehampton.ac.uk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Primate social behaviour and welfare

TEACHING AREAS

Zoology, primatology, animal conservation

RECENT GRANTS AWARDED

Leakey Foundation ($10,380) 2008
Hedonic benefits of grooming in Barbary macaques

Darwin Initiative Scoping Award (£2972) 2006
Post release monitoring of orangutans in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah

Wenner Gren Foundation ($9,730) 2005
Mother-offspring communication in rhesus macaques: the role of bystanders

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Semple, S, Hsu, MJ and Agoramoorthy, G (2010) Efficiency of coding in macaque vocal communication. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.1062

Reamer, L, Tooze, Z, Coulson, C and Semple, S (2010) Correlates of self-directed and stereotypic behaviours in captive red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus torquatus). Applied Animal Behaviour Science 124, 68-74

Semple, S, Gerald, M and Suggs, D (2009) Bystanders affect the outcome of mother-infant interactions in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276, 2257-2262

Dubuc, C, Brent, L, Accamando, AK, Gerald, MS, MacLarnon, A, Semple, S, Heistermann, M and Engelhardt, A (2009) Sexual skin color contains information about the timing of the fertile phase in free-ranging rhesus macaques. International Journal of Primatology 30, 777-789

Higham, JP, MacLarnon, AM, Heistermann, M, Ross, C and Semple, S (2009) Rates of self-directed behaviour and faecal glucocorticoid levels are not correlated in wild female olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis). Stress 12, 526-532

Price, T, Arnold, K, Zuberbühler, K and Semple, S (2009) Pyow but not hack calls of the male putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithcus nictitans) convey information about caller identity. Behaviour 146, 871-888

Haakonsson, J, and Semple, S (2009) Lateralisation of trunk movements in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Laterality 14, 413 – 422

Higham, JP, Semple, S, MacLarnon, AM, Heistermann, M and Ross, C (2009) Female reproductive signaling, and male mating behavior, in the olive baboon. Hormones and Behaviour 55, 60-67

Greeno, N, and Semple, S (2009) Sex differences in vocal communication among adult rhesus macaques. Evolution and Human Behaviour 30, 141-145

Higham, JP, Heistermann, M, Ross, C, Semple, S, and MacLarnon, AM (2008) The timing of ovulation with respect to sexual swelling detumescence in wild olive baboons. Primates 49, 295-299

Carder, G and Semple, S (2008) Visitor effects on anxiety in two captive groups of western lowland gorillas. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 115, 211-220

Higham, JP, MacLarnon, AM, Ross, C, Heistermann, M and Semple, S (2008) Baboon sexual swellings: information content of size and color. Hormones and Behaviour 53, 452-462

Wiper, S and Semple, S (2007) The function of teeth-chattering in the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus). American Journal of Primatology 69, 1179 - 1188

Shutt, K, MacLarnon, A, Heistermann, M and Semple, S (2007) Grooming in Barbary macaques: better to give than receive? Biology Letters, 3, 231-233

Semple, S, and Ross, C (2007) Orangutan post-release monitoring research Phase 2: Tabin Reserve. Report for the Orangutan Appeal UK and Sabah Wildlife Department, Borneo

Semple, S and McComb, K (2006) The function of female copulation calls in the genus Macaca: insights from the Barbary macaque. In The Barbary macaque: comparative and evolutionary perspectives (J.K. Hodges and J. Cortes, eds). Nottingham: Nottingham University Press.

Sandbrook, C & Semple, S (2006) The rules and the reality of mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) tracking: how close do tourists get? Oryx 40, 428-433

Weyher, A, Ross, C and Semple, S (2006) A comparison of gastrointestinal parasites in a crop raiding and a wild foraging troop of olive baboons in Nigeria. International Journal of Primatology 27, 1519-1534

McComb, K and Semple, S (2005) Coevolution of sociality and vocal communication in primates. Biology Letters 1, 381-385

PHD STUDENTS

Emily Bethell
Cognitive bias in rhesus macaques
Co-supervised with Prof Ann MacLarnon and Dr Amanda Holmes

Lauren Brent
Stress, reproduction and social behaviour in non-human primates
Co-supervised with Prof Ann MacLarnon

David Inglis
Communication and social behaviour of olive baboons
Co-supervised with Dr Caroline Ross

Nienke Alberts
Fission-fusion sociality among olive baboons in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria
Co-supervised with Dr Julia Lehmann

Charlotte Carne
Modelling approaches to primate conservation
Co-supervised with Dr Julia Lehmann

FORMER STUDENTS

James Higham (awarded 2006)
The reproductive ecology of female olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) at Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria
Co-supervised with Prof Ann MacLarnon and Dr Caroline Ross

James is now working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Chicago University

Chris Sandbrook (awarded 2007)
Who are the true ecotourists? Evaluating the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Co-supervised with Prof Katherine Homewood, UCL and Dr Sarah Durant, Institute of Zoology, London

Chris now holds an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Cambridge University