E. (Eythan) Cousin

PhD Candidate
Animal Behaviour and Cognition
e.cousin@uu.nl

My research focuses on the interplay between culture and sociality in non-human primates. By combining behavioural experiments on social learning, social tolerance and cooperation with observations and Social Network Analysis, I investigate group-level social patterns that could be indicative of a “social culture” in captive rhesus macaques. My research takes place at the Biomedical Primate Research Center, The Netherlands, to compare groups housed in similar conditions, thus shedding light on the evolutionary roots of human’s complex sociality.