Tammy Windfelder
Assistant Professor of Biology
Hall of Sciences 131; Phone x3057
email: twindfel at drew.edu

Professional Biography

Dr. Windfelder received her B.S. in Animal Behavior from Bucknell University in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University in 1997. She joined the faculty at Drew University in 2003. Professor Windfelder’s research interests include animal communication and social behavior. She uses primates as model systems to investigate the evolution of sociality, ecological factors influencing patterns of group-living and social behavior, and the use of communication in mediating group cohesion. Tammy has conducted research on primates in both the Amazon and eastern Africa, investigating saddle-back tamarins and emperor tamarins in Perú and mangabeys and redtails in Uganda. She team-teaches a Drew International Seminar on Conservation in Peru, and she brings Drew students to help with her field research in the tropics.

On the personal side...

Tammy is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She enjoys traveling and the outdoors (pre-requisites for a field biologist who travels to foreign countries and lives in a tent for months on end). Things she misses most when in the field: hot showers, McDonald's, and not having to wake up before dawn.

Publications

Windfelder, T. L. & Lwanga, J. L. 2003. Group fission in red-tailed guenons (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. In: Multicolored Monkeys: Diversity and Adaptation in the Guenons of Africa (Ed. by M. E. Glenn & M. Cords). New York: Plenum Press.

Windfelder, T. L. & Lwanga, J. L. 2002. Mixed-species associations of redtail monkeys
(Cercopithecus ascanius) and mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) at the Ngogo study site, Kibale National Park, Uganda. American Journal of Primatology, 56, 65-66.

Windfelder, T. L. 2001. Interspecific communication in mixed-species groups of tamarins: Evidence from playback experiments. Animal Behaviour, 61, 1193-1201.

Mitani, J. C., Sanders, W. J., Lwanga, J. S. & Windfelder, T. L. 2001. Predatory behavior of crowned hawk-eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus) in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 49, 187-195.

Windfelder, T. L. 2000. Observations on the birth and subsequent care of twin offspring by a lone pair of wild emperor tamarins (Saguinus imperator). American Journal of Primatology, 52, 107-113.