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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Primate Behaviour
• Molecular genetic analysis of non-human primate DNA
• Reproduction

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Primate Behaviour
• Primate Sexuality
• Theory and Methodology in Primatology

Affiliations

• American Society of Primatologists
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• International Primatological Society

Awards & Grants

• 2009-2011 University of Toronto Connaught Fund New Staff Matching Grant "GPS Technology and Primate Ranging Behavior" $15, 000 Principal Investigator
• 2009-2010 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant & Ontario Research Fund Grant "Molecular Anthropology and Primatology Laboratory for the Study of Evolution" (MAPLE) $140, 000 Principal Investigator
• 2009-2010 SSHRC "GPS Technology and Primate Ranging Behavior" $14,904 Principal Investigator
• 2009-2010 SSHRC SIG Grant "Measuring Primate Energetic Expenditure". $900 Principal Investigator

Publications

• Parga, JA. and Overdorff, D. (2010) Primate socioecology. In: Primates in Perspective, 2nd ed. Campbell, CJ; Fuentes, A; MacKinnon, KC; Stumpf, RM; Bearder, SK (eds.) Oxford University Press: Oxford.
• Parga, JA. (2010) Evaluation of male inter-troop transfer as a mating strategy in ring-tailed lemurs on St. Catherines Island, USA. Folia Primatologica 81(3): 146-162.
• Parga, JA. (2010) Post-ejaculatory mounting in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta): A behavior solicited by females? Ethology 116(9): 832-842.
• Parga, JA. (2009) Dominance rank reversals and rank instability among male Lemur catta: The effects of female behavior and ejaculation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138(3): 293-305.
• Parga, JA and Henry, AR. (2008) Male aggression during mating: Evidence for sexual coercion in a female dominant primate? American Journal of Primatology 70(12): 1187-1190.