Megan Petersdorf
@meganpetersdorf.bsky.social
new orleans 🎭 • postdoc • biologist • anthropologist • science communicator • studying the sex lives of monkeys 🐒 • living with long covid • she/her 🏳️🌈
“I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life” - Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life” - Jane Goodall
🚨 New paper! 🚨
🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide.
🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction.
🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs?
🐒 Spoiler: Nope!
Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide.
🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction.
🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs?
🐒 Spoiler: Nope!
Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨 New paper! 🚨
🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide.
🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction.
🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs?
🐒 Spoiler: Nope!
Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide.
🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction.
🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs?
🐒 Spoiler: Nope!
Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
See you next time 🥹 🐒 🇿🇲 ☀️
August 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
See you next time 🥹 🐒 🇿🇲 ☀️
Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!
Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
I’d know that damn stuffed monkey anywhere
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’d know that damn stuffed monkey anywhere
New paper! 🐒 🧪
We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New paper! 🐒 🧪
We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Accidentally poured myself 2 glasses of wine so that’s how the final days of lab work are going!
December 19, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Accidentally poured myself 2 glasses of wine so that’s how the final days of lab work are going!
Day 1 back in the lab is always an… experience! Here’s us super excited for messing something up and now doing lab work at 10pm 🥲🥲🥲
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Day 1 back in the lab is always an… experience! Here’s us super excited for messing something up and now doing lab work at 10pm 🥲🥲🥲