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Stacey Tecot is a Biological Anthropologist and Primatologist with a special focus on lemurs. She is interested in the evolution of physiological and behavioral strategies used to cope with dynamic physical and social environments. Her research questions focus on better understanding human evolution, and primate conservation. Her field research mainly occurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.Show Less
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Courses
- PSPrimate Sexuality
- PBPrimate Behavior
- NHOCRNatural History of Our Closest Relatives
- MBAMethods in Biological Anthropology
Grants
- Perinatal stress, social support, and neuroendocrine regulation among mothers with opioid use disorder and their infants: Implications for infant attachment and development
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$46.1K
Active - A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Mother-Infant Synchrony Among Women with Childhood Adversity
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$2.4M
Active - Hormonal Response to Infant Caregiving: A Novel Strategy to Break the Opioid Relapse Cycle During The Postpartum Period
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$2.3M
Active - Roles of Oxytocin and Vasopressin in the Psychobiology of Human-Animal Interaction
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$157.4K
Active - Oxytocin Pathways and the Health Effects of Human-Animal Interaction
Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI)
2018
$436.9K
- Collaborative Research: The Function and Mechanism of Male Relationships in a System
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$125.7K
- Androgens, Cortisol, Behavior, and Food Seasonality in Wild White-Faced Capuchin (Cebus Capucinus) in Sector Santa Rosa, Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$1.5K
- Making an Alpha Male: Socioendocrinology of Dominance in Male White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus Capucinus)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$11.5K
- Making an Alpha Male: The Socioendocrinology of Dominance in Male White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus Capucinus)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$9.5K
- Making an Alpha Male: The Socioendocrinology of Dominance in Male White-Faced Capuchins (Cebus Capucinus)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$19.4K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Elevated Androgens Don't Hinder Lemur Dads' Parenting
2018
- Climate Change Pushing This Lemur to the Limit
2017
- Researchers Design Facial Recognition System for Lemurs
2017
- School of Anthropology Celebrates Centennial
2015
- Female Lemurs Play It Safe, Live Longer, Study Suggests
2013
- UA Collaborates with The Loft Cinema for 'Science on Screen'
2011
Publications (56)
Recent
- An overdue catalyst: Limitations imposed by COVID‐19 improved capacity building in community‐led environmental education in Madagascar
2023
- Functional Relationships between Estradiol and Paternal Care in Male, Red-Bellied Lemurs, Eulemur Rubriventer
2023
- Nonhuman Primate Paternal Care: Species and Individual Differences in Behavior and Mechanisms
2022
- What are oxytocin assays measuring? Epitope mapping, metabolites, and comparisons of wildtype & knockout mouse urine
2022
- Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar
2022
- Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers.
2021
- Modelling collective decision-making: Insights into collective anti-predator behaviors from an agent-based approach
2021
- Specificity of plasma oxytocin immunoassays: A comparison of commercial assays and sample preparation techniques using oxytocin knockout and wildtype mice
2021
- Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut
2020
- Multimodal pair‐bond maintenance: A review of signaling across modalities in pair‐bonded nonhuman primates
2020
- Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes.
2019
- Signaling across the senses: a captive case study in pair-bonded red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) at the Duke Lemur Center, NC, USA
2019
- Faecal glucocorticoid metabolite profiles in diademed sifakas increase during seasonal fruit scarcity with interactive effects of age/sex class and habitat degradation.
2019
- Social behaviour and gut microbiota in red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer): In search of the role of immunity in the evolution of sociality.
2018
- Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes
2018
- Interannual Variation in Diet, Dietary Diversity, and Dietary Overlap in Three Sympatric Strepsirrhine Species in Southeastern Madagascar
2018
- Profiling caregivers: Hormonal variation underlying allomaternal care in wild red-bellied lemurs, Eulemur rubriventer.
2018
- LemurFaceID: A face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
2017
- Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur
2017
- Wright, P. C.
2017
- The Culm Before the Storm: Global Climate Change Driving the Extinction of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur simus)
2017
- Diet specialization does not lead to strong gut microbiota convergence across Primates
2017
- LemurFaceID: A Face Recognition System to Facilitate Lemur Conservation
2017
- Feeding Ecology and Morphology Make a Bamboo Specialist Vulnerable to Climate Change
2017
- Boldness is linked to heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur
2016
- Anthropogenic and climatic effects on the distribution of Eulemur species: An ecological niche modeling approach
2016
- Social behavior and gut microbiota in red-bellied lemurs: In search of the role of immunity in the evolution of sociality
2016
- Why monogamy isn t good enough.
2016
- What facilitates facultative allomaternal care in red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer)? A preliminary investigation.
2015
- Kamilar&Tecot-AppendixS1
2015
- Primate Allomaternal Care
2015
- Connecting proximate mechanisms and evolutionary patterns: pituitary gland size and mammalian life history
2015
- Pair-living and pair-bonding in the red-bellied lemur, Eulemur rubriventer.
2014
- Teeth, sex, and testosterone: Ageing in the world's smallest primate.
2014
- Fecal cortisol metabolites in Milne-Edwards’ sifaka are higher in an undisturbed site than in a disturbed site in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
2013
- Risky business: Sex ratio, mortality, and group transfer in Propithecus edwardsi in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
2013
- Maintaining pair-bonds in red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer): A preliminary captive study at Duke Lemur Center, Durham, NC
2013
- Risky business: Sex differences in mortality and dispersal in a polygynous, monomorphic lemur
2013
- Lousy personalities: Aggression, testosterone, and ectoparasite dynamics in a population of wild brown mouse lemurs
2013
- Behavioral and physiological characteristics of monogamous pair-bonds in the red-bellied lemur, Eulemur rubriventer.
2013
- Habitat disturbance and fecal cortisol metabolites in a folivorous strepsirrhine, Propithecus edwardsi
2013
- Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
2012
- Long-term lemur research at centre Valbio, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
2012
- Variable Energetic Strategies in Disturbed and Undisturbed Rain Forests: Eulemur rubriventer Fecal Cortisol Levels in South-Eastern Madagascar
2012
- Infant parking and nesting, not allomaternal care, influence Malagasy primate life histories
2012
- Reproductive Strategies and Infant Care in the Malagasy Primates
2012
- Leading Ladies: Leadership of Group Movements in a Pair-Living, Co-Dominant, Monomorphic Primate Across Reproductive Stages and Fruit Availability Seasons
2012
- Frugivory in four sympatric lemurs: Implications for the future of Madagascar's forests
2011
- Morphometrics and pattern of growth in wild sifakas (Propithecus edwardsi) at ranomafana national park, Madagascar
2011
- It’s all in the timing: birth seasonality and infant survival in Eulemur rubriventer
2010
- It's All in the Timing: Birth Seasonality and Infant Survival in Eulemur rubriventer
2010
- Primate conservation efforts
2010
- Morphometric Data and Patterns of Growth in Wild Propithecus Edwardsi at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
2009
- 2009 Annual meeting of the American society of primatologists
2009
- Morphometric data and patterns of growth in wild Propithecus edivardsi at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
2009
- In reference to lemurs: a comprehensive field guide and call to action on behalf of the unique primates of Madagascar
2008