Tal Kleinhause

I'm a PhD 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 the evolution of behavior, and more specifically on dominant personality in primates.

In my work, I use long-term behavioral data to investigate individual differences in aggression and affiliation styles in wild Chacma baboons from the Tsaobis population in Namibia.

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