Dr. Dawn M. Kitchen

Contact Information

Dr. Dawn M. Kitchen
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
4034 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
~And~
355 Ovalwood
1680 University Drive
Mansfield, OH 44906
419.755.4027(tel)
419.755.4367 (fax)
kitchen.79@osu.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research Interests

A physical anthropologist whose research focuses on the social behavior and communication of non-human primates. Past research investigated the role of loud calls in mediating male-male competition in chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) of Botswana and black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Belize.

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Publications

Kitchen, D.M. & Beehner, J.C. 2007. Factors affecting individual participation in group-level aggression in non-human primates. Behaviour 144, 1551-1581.

Kitchen, D.M. & Packer, C. 1999. Complexity in vertebrate societies. In: Levels of Selection in Evolution, (Keller, L., editor), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 176-196.

Links to Baboon Publications

Kitchen, D. M., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. 2003. Female baboons’ responses to male loud calls. Ethology 109, 401-412

Kitchen, D. M., Seyfarth, R. M., Fischer, J., & Cheney, D. L. 2003. Loud calls as indicators of dominance in male baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 53, 374-84

Fischer, J., Kitchen, D. M., Seyfarth, R. M., & Cheney, D. L. 2004. Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: acoustic features and their relation to rank, age and exhaustion. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56, 140-148

Kitchen, D. M., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. 2004. Factors mediating inter-group encounters in chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus). Behaviour 141, 197-218

Kitchen, D. M., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. 2005. Male chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) discriminate loud call contests between rivals of different relative ranks. Animal Cognition 8, 1-6

Kitchen, D. M., Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. 2005. Contextual factors mediating contests between male chacma baboons in Botswana: effects of food, friends and females. International Journal of Primatology 26, 105-125

Bergman, T.J. & Kitchen, D.M. 2009. Comparing responses to novel objects in wild baboons and geladas. Animal Cognition 12, 63-73

Links to Howler Monkey Publications

Kitchen, D. M. 2004. Alpha male black howler monkey responses to loud calls: effect of numeric odds, male companion behaviour, and reproductive investment. Animal Behaviour 67, 125-139

Kitchen, D. M., Horwich, R. H. & James, R. A. 2004. Subordinate male black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) responses to loud calls: experimental evidence for the effects of intra-group male relationships and age. Behaviour 141, 703-723

Eckert, K.A., Hahn, N. E., Genz, A., Kitchen, D. M., Stuart, M.D., Averbeck, G.A., Stromberg, B.E., & Markowitz, H. 2006. Coprological surveys Alouatta pigra at two sites in Belize. International Journal of Primatology 27, 227-238

Kitchen, D. M. 2006. Experimental test of female black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) responses to loud calls from potentially infanticidal males: effects of numeric odds, vulnerable offspring and companion behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131, 73-83

Current Grad Students

Elizabeth Perrin
Michelle Rodrigues

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