Marie Charpentier
Research Director
I work on the evolution of sociality in primate societies using long-term, individual-centered data. Since 2012, I have been running a field station in southern Gabon (Parc de la Lékédi, Bakoumba) to study the world's only natural population of habituated mandrills. In this population, I study the main determinants of social relationships, such as kinship or individual parasite status, as well as the proximal factors that regulate these relationships.
The social microbiome: The missing mechanism mediating the sociality-fitness nexus?
In many social mammals, early social life and social integration in adulthood...
The Mandrillus Project
The Mandrillus project (www.projetmandrillus.com) is studying the socio-ecology of the only habituated population of wild mandrills...
Stillbirth of a mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the wild: perinatal behaviors and delivery sequences
Birth is a fundamental event in the lives of animals, including our own...
90 documents
- Nicolas Martin Dibot, Alice Baniel, Jean Nzue Nguema, Thierry Audrey Tsoumbou, Barthélémy Ngoubangoye, et al.. Animation, but not facial femininity, increases attention to female faces in male mandrills. Royal Society Open Science, 2026, 13 (9), pp.260618. ⟨10.1098/rsos.260618⟩. ⟨hal-05772993⟩
- Jacob Feder, Susan Alberts, Elizabeth Archie, Małgorzata Arlet, Alice Baniel, et al.. Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026, 123 (20), ⟨10.1073/pnas.2520774123⟩. ⟨hal-05773006⟩
- Jacob Feder, Susan Alberts, Elizabeth Archie, Małgorzata Arlet, Alice Baniel, et al.. Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026, 123 (20), pp.e2520774123. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2520774123⟩. ⟨hal-05695405⟩
- Axelle Delaunay, Vittoria Roatti, Rose Ellis, Punaete Kandjii, Alecia Carter, et al.. Sibling interference in mother–offspring interactions reveals jealous reactions in wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2026, 293 (2064), ⟨10.1098/rspb.2025.2102⟩. ⟨hal-05526556⟩
- Marie J E Charpentier, Fabienne Justy, Théo Deremarque, Richard Mbadoumou, Alice Baniel. Costs and benefits of heterosexual interactions on female mandrills. Biology Letters, 2026, 22 (8), pp.20260275. ⟨10.1098/rsbl.2026.0275⟩. ⟨hal-05772986⟩
- Julien P Renoult, Romain Karpinski, Loïc Sauvadet, Mélodie Kreyer, Richard Mbadoumou, et al.. Vision transformers for age prediction from facial images in a wild primate. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025, 16 (12), pp.2858-2872. ⟨10.1111/2041-210X.70187⟩. ⟨hal-05346675⟩
- Berta Roura-Torres, Alice Baniel, Anna Cryer, Loïc Sauvadet, Mélyssa de Pastors, et al.. Toward independence: maternal social status and experience shape mother–infant relationships in mandrills. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2025, 79 (3), pp.42. ⟨10.1007/s00265-025-03582-8⟩. ⟨hal-05349067⟩
- Pritish Chakravarty, Alison Ashbury, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Josefine Iffelsberger, Aya Goldshtein, et al.. The sociality of sleep in animal groups. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024, 39 (12), pp.1090-1101. ⟨10.1016/j.tree.2024.07.011⟩. ⟨hal-04749978⟩
- 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⟩
- Berta Roura-Torres, Paul Amblard-Rambert, Pascal Lepou, Peter M Kappeler, Marie J E Charpentier. Stillbirth of a mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in the wild: perinatal behaviors and delivery sequences. Primates, 2024, 65 (2), pp.75-80. ⟨10.1007/s10329-023-01112-6⟩. ⟨hal-04501987⟩
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