Dr. Jessica Abbott
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Humanities, Biological and related sciences
Evolutionary biology, behavioural biology, primate biology
Sexual selection among the primates
Field endocrinology
Accepted into the Dorothea Schlözer qualification programme, Excellence Initiative, University of Göttingen, 2010
Postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2006
Award from the German Primate Centre (DPZ) for the best doctoral thesis, 2005
Postdoctoral fellowship, DPZ, 2005
Postdoctoral fellowship, Federal State of Berlin, 2004
Doctoral fellowship, DPZ, 2003
Doctoral fellowship, Consul Karl and Dr Gabriele Sandmann Foundation (KKGS Stiftung), Berlin, 2001
Top-up fellowship, DAAD, 1999
Doctoral fellowship, Federal State of Berlin, 1999
English, German
Engelhardt, A. et al.: Information content of female copulation calls in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66 pp. 121-134.
Higham, J. et al.: Colour signal information content and the eye of the beholder: a case study in the rhesus macaque. In: Behavioral Ecology 21. pp. 739-746.
Neumann, C. et al.: Loud calls in male Macaca nigra – a signal of dominance in a tolerant primate species. In: Animal Behaviour 79, 2010. pp. 187-193.
Girard-Butoz, C. et al.: Seasonal and social influences on fecal androgen and glucocorticoid excretion in wild male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). In: Physiology and Behavior 98, 2009. pp. 168-175.
Brauch, K. et al.: Paternity in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus): both, males and females pull the strings. In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62, 2008. pp. 1453-1466.
Engelhardt, A., Hodges, J.K., Heistermann, M.: Post-conception mating in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): characterization, endocrine correlates and functional significance. In: Hormones and Behavior 51, 2007. pp. 3-10.
Pradhan, G. et al.: The evolution of female copulation calls in primates: a review and a new model. In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59, 2006. pp. 333-343.
Engelhardt, A. et al.: Determinants of male reproductive success in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) – male monopolisation, female mate choice or post-copulatory mechanisms? In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59, 2006. pp. 740-752.
Engelhardt, A. et al.: Female sexual behavior, but not sex skin swelling reliably indicates the timing of the fertile phase in wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). In: Hormones and Behavior 47, 2005. pp. 195-204.
Engelhardt, A. et al.: Assessment of female reproductive status by male long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) under natural conditions. In: Animal Behaviour 67, 2004. pp. 915-924.
Determinants of male reproductive success in multi-male groups
Function of sexual signals
Hormone-behaviour relationships
Sperm competition in macaques
Communication and cognition
Spokesperson for the section Behavioural Biology in the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (German Zoological Association)
Research proposal reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Reviewed applicants for the International Primatological Society (Research Grants)
Reviewed applicants for the Leakey Foundation
Head of an Emmy Noether junior research group, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Three children
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