  CRICKETTE SANZ Assistant Professor, Physical Anthropology PhD, Washington Univ., 2004 csanz@WUSTL.EDU |
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| CRICKETTE SANZ Assistant Professor, Physical Anthropology PhD, Washington Univ., 2004 csanz@WUSTL.EDU |
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My research focuses on understanding the factors which have led to the emergence and promoted the maintenance of behavioral diversity in primates. I am particularly interested in the variation of social organization and material culture that has been documented among wild chimpanzee populations. This pursuit involves field studies and collaborative projects to examine instraspecific variation in the behavioral ecology of wild chimpanzees.
As co-principal investigators of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project in northern Republic of Congo, David Morgan and I are conducting field studies to examine the behavioral ecology of the central subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes), the social and ecological factors shaping their complex tool using traditions, and the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas. These studies hold important insights for elucidating the role of ultimate and proximate forces in primate evolutionary history, which will aid in constructing valid models of human evolution from our closest living relatives.
For more information see the overview of the department's research in physical anthropology.
In press. Sanz, C., Morgan, D. Complexity of Chimpanzee Tool Using Behaviors. Book chapter prepared for The Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives, edited by E. V. Lonsdorf, S. R. Ross, and T. Matsuzawa.
Devos, C., Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Onononga, J. R., Laporte, N., Huynen, M. C. 2008. Comparing ape densities in Northern Congo: Surveys of sympatric gorillas and chimpanzees in the Ndoki and Odzala Regions. American Journal of Primatology 70: 1-13.
Sanz, C., Morgan, D. 2007. Chimpanzee Tool Technology in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Journal of Human Evolution 52 (4): 420-433.
Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Strindberg, S., Onononga, J. R. 2007. Distinguishing between the nests of sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas. Journal of Applied Ecology 44: 263-272.
Morgan, D., Sanz, C. 2007. Best Practice Guidelines for Reducing the Impact of Commercial Logging on Wild Apes in West Equatorial Africa. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG). 32 pp.
Walsh, P. D., Breuer, T., Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Doran-Sheehy, D. 2007. Potential for Ebola Transmission between Gorilla and Chimpanzee Social Groups. American Naturalist 169 (5): 684-689.
Morgan, D., Sanz, C., Onononga, J.R., Strindberg, S. 2006. Ape Abundance and Habitat Use in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. International Journal of Primatology 27 (1): 147-179.
Morgan, D., Sanz, C. 2006. Chimpanzee Feeding Ecology and Comparisons with Sympatric Gorillas in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. Primate Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates: Ecological, Physiological, and Behavioural Aspects, edited by G. Hohmann, M. Robbins, and C. Boesch, pp. 97-122.
Tutin, C. E. G., Stokes, E., Boesch, C., Walsh, P., Morgan, D., Sanz, C., Blake, S., Kormos, R. 2005. Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Gorillas and Chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa. Conservation International.
Sanz, C., Morgan, D., Gulick, S. New Insights into Chimpanzees, Tools, and Termites from the Congo Basin. 2004. American Naturalist 164: 567-581.
Morgan, D., Sanz, C. 2003. Naïve encounters with chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo. International Journal of Primatology 24(2): 369-381.
