Welcome to our lab! 
Our research integrates perspectives from evolutionary ecology, animal behavior, and physiology in an effort to understand how natural selection and current conditions shape decision-making in mammals. We combine naturalistic observations on free-living mammals with field experiments, genetic and endocrine analyses, and social network statistics to test the predictions of evolutionary theory.

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• New articles: Comparative Social Evolution, Oxytocin Experiments, Long-term Studies in Mammalian Carnivores, and Species Account on the California Ground Squirrel
• Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Animal Behavior Society and Phi Beta Kappa
• Chelsea Ortiz won herself an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue her Ph.D. in Animal Behavior Group at UC-Davis to study behavioral syndromes of California ground squirrels in collaboration with Andy Sih
• Trends in Ecology and Evolution paper on Leadership in Mammalian Societies, in collaboration with my NIMBioS Working Group, covered in the media by outlets including Science Daily, Discovery News, Forbes, Neuroscience News, NIMBioS, Tech Times, Phys.org, KCBS Radio, Examiner, ​Correio Braziliense, El Español, Psychology Today, ​Voice of America, and IFL Science! 
• Recent seminars at UCLA's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar, University of California Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Symposium
• National Science Foundation funded co-mentoring w/ Andy Sih of Denisse Gamboa '17 and Riana Hunter '18.
• Jill Barrett Research Program supports Women in Science: Riana Hunter, Julia Spencer, & Erika Pendleton.​