Elise Huchard
I am interested in the evolution of mammalian social and mating systems. At the interface between sexual and kin selection, a major focus of my work explores the causes and consequences of reproductive and life-history strategies in mammalian societies using observational and experimental data, mainly in the context of long-term individual-centered studies.
My research examined the evolution of sexual signals, mating choice, mating with multiple partners (polyandry), and reproductive competition in females from natural populations of primates and other social mammals.
I am currently working specifically on sexual conflict, as well as genetic and social influences on development, growth, and immunity in the context of life history trait theory, occasionally using quantitative genetic tools or comparative studies, and using Tsaobis baboons, Kirindy lemurs, Kalahari meerkats, and Bakoumba mandrills as my primary models (see attached figure).
Tsaobis Baboon Project
The ecology of sexual coercion and of male-female power asymmetries in primates : Elise Huchard | Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) online seminar series
Primatology
Interview with Elise Huchard - France Culture - Wednesday, March 05, 2024 4pm
Deuil animal : six pattes sous terre - Interview with Elise Huchard - Podcast La Science, CQFD - France Culture
- Alice Baniel, Axelle Delaunay, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Oestrous females avoid mating in front of adult male bystanders in wild chacma baboons. Royal Society Open Science, 2019, 6 (1), pp.181009. ⟨10.1098/rsos.181009⟩. ⟨hal-02114590⟩
- Christine Webb, Peter Woodford, Elise Huchard. Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion?. Bioscience, 2019, 69 (10), pp.778-788. ⟨10.1093/biosci/biz082⟩. ⟨hal-02170684⟩
- Christine E Webb, Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Friend or foe: Reconciliation between males and females in wild chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour, 2019, 151, pp.145-155. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.016⟩. ⟨hal-02114573⟩
- Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Jealous females? Female competition and reproductive suppression in a wild promiscuous primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018, 285 (1886), pp.20181332. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2018.1332⟩. ⟨hal-01950037⟩
- Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Context dependence of female reproductive competition in wild chacma baboons. Animal Behaviour, 2018, 139, pp.37-49. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.03.001⟩. ⟨hal-01950023⟩
- Virginie Maris, Elise Huchard. Interventionnisme et faune sauvage. Les Ateliers de l'Ethique, 2018, 13, pp.115-142. ⟨10.7202/1055121ar⟩. ⟨hal-01950031⟩
- Anni Hämäläinen, Eva Kaesler, Peter M Kappeler, Markus Brameier, Janina Demeler, et al.. Shared evolutionary origin of major histocompatibility complex polymorphism in sympatric lemurs. Molecular Ecology, 2017, 26 (20), pp.5629-5645. ⟨10.1111/mec.14336⟩. ⟨hal-01950068⟩
- Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard. Male Violence and Sexual Intimidation in a Wild Primate Society. Current Biology - CB, 2017, 27 (14), pp.2163-2168.e3. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.013⟩. ⟨hal-01950144⟩
- E. Huchard, S. Schliehe-Diecks, P. M Kappeler, C. Kraus. The inbreeding strategy of a solitary primate, Microcebus murinus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2017, 30 (1), pp.128-140. ⟨10.1111/jeb.12992⟩. ⟨hal-01950125⟩
- Jamie Winternitz, J.L. Abbate, E. Huchard, J. Havlicek, L. Z. Garamszegi. Patterns of MHC-dependent mate selection in humans and nonhuman primates: a meta-analysis. Molecular Ecology, 2017, 26 (2), pp.668-688. ⟨10.1111/mec.13920⟩. ⟨hal-01601137⟩
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