Tal Kleinhause

I am a doctoral student working under the supervision of Élise Huchard, in collaboration with the Tsaobis Baboon Project and as part of the DESPOT team. My research focuses on behavioral evolution, and more specifically on dominant personality in primates.

As part of my work, I use long-term behavioral data to study individual differences in aggression and affiliation styles among wild Chacma baboons in the Tsaobis population in Namibia.

I am very interested in the strategies that different individuals use in social and hierarchical situations, and how these might be related to genetics, social learning, or personality. In the past, I have worked with small mammals in the northeastern United States and Borneo; tracked meerkats in the Kalahari for 18 months; observed and habituated chimpanzees in Sierra Leone and Guinea; and completed the MEME master's program.