Dr Bernardo Urbani

Bernardo Urbani is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, Venezuela. Currently, he also is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting this study and was the recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists and the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Primatological Society. His research interests are primate cognitive and behavioral ecology, history of primatology, archaeoprimatology/ethnoprimatology, and primate conservation.