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
- Locadia Dzingwena, Lucie Thel, Marc Choisy, Rebecca Garbett, Anita Wilkinson, et al.. Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa. Scientific Reports, 2025, 15 (1), pp.39342. ⟨10.1038/s41598-025-23151-3⟩. ⟨hal-05360741⟩
- Locadia Dzingwena, Lucie Thel, Marc Choisy, Rebecca Garbett, Anita Wilkinson, et al.. Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa. Scientific Reports, 2025, 15, ⟨10.1038/s41598-025-23151-3⟩. ⟨hal-05392391⟩
- Eleane Jao, Elise Huchard, Elisa Fernández Fueyo, Julia A Kunz, Guy Cowlishaw, et al.. Thermal imaging demonstrates physiological responses to grooming interactions and audience effects in wild baboons. Royal Society Open Science, 2025, 12 (10), ⟨10.1098/rsos.251398⟩. ⟨hal-05359556⟩
- Nicolas Galtier, Khalid Belkhir, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Christine Bibal, Christophe Boëte, et al.. Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.. 2025. ⟨hal-05157188⟩
- Vincent A. Viblanc, Elise Huchard, Gilles Pinay, Elena Ormeño, Céline Teplitsky, et al.. Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation. 2025. ⟨hal-05137194⟩
- Elise Huchard, Peter M Kappeler, Nikolaos Smit, Claudia Fichtel, Dieter Lukas. The evolution of male–female dominance relations in primate societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025, 122 (28), pp.e2500405122. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2500405122⟩. ⟨hal-05359555⟩
- Esa A Ahmad, Helen Reiderman, Elise Huchard, Axelle Delaunay, Vittoria Roatti, et al.. Wild recognition: conducting the mark test for mirror self-recognition on wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 292 (2039), ⟨10.1098/rspb.2024.1933⟩. ⟨hal-05363720⟩
- Nicolas Galtier, Khalid Belkhir, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Christine Bibal, Christophe Boëte, et al.. Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2025, ⟨10.1093/jeb/voaf143⟩. ⟨hal-05384817⟩
- Alecia Carter, Elise Huchard. What is the “Least Bad” Control in Comparative Thanatology Studies? A Comment on Arlet et al., 2023. International Journal of Primatology, 2024, 45 (5), pp.1001-1003. ⟨10.1007/s10764-023-00411-5⟩. ⟨hal-04784748⟩
- Axelle Delaunay, Océane Cossu-Doye, Berta Roura-Torres, Loïc Sauvadet, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, et al.. An early-life challenge: becoming an older sibling in wild mandrills. Royal Society Open Science, 2024, 11 (7), ⟨10.1098/rsos.240597⟩. ⟨hal-04749969⟩
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