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Thore Bergman
- Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Evolutionary and Population Biology, Washington University
- Bergman webpage
- Psychology website
Contact information
- University of Michigan
3014 East Hall
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - Phone: (734) 615-3744
- Fax: (734) 763-7480
- Email: thore@umich.edu
Academic background
I received a B.S. in Zoology and Conservation Biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. I received a Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Population Biology from Washington University in 2000. For my dissertation, I studied behavior and reproductive success in hybrid baboons in Ethiopia. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2005 studying social behavior and cognition in baboons in Botswana. Since 2005, I have been studying behavior, communication, and cognition in gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) in Ethiopia.
Graduate students
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Department of Psychology
Related news
On U-M Gateway: geladas' vocal lip smacks resemble human speech
Move over Planet of the Apes. The rhythmic vocal sounds made by lip smacking in wild gelada monkeys have similarities to human speech, a new U-M study shows.
