Maria Creighton

Journal article bioRxiv · October 3, 2025 Long-term data sets on individually recognized animals and their environments are critical to understanding animal behavior, evolution, and ecology. However, they are resource- and time-intensive and seldom made publicly available. The Amboseli Baboon Rese ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 2025 Over the past few decades, studies have provided strong evidence that the robust links between the social environment, health, and survival found in humans also extend to nonhuman social animals. A number of these studies emphasize the early life origins o ... Full text Cite

Explaining the primate extinction crisis: predictors of extinction risk and active threats.

Journal article Proceedings. Biological sciences · September 2023 Explaining why some species are disproportionately impacted by the extinction crisis is of critical importance for conservation biology as a science and for proactively protecting species that are likely to become threatened in the future. Using the most c ... Full text Cite

Predictors of taxonomic splitting and its role in primate conservation

Journal article Animal Conservation · June 1, 2023 Species are the main unit used to measure biodiversity, but different preferred operational criteria can lead to very different delineations. For instance, named primate species have more than doubled in number since 1982. Such increases have been partly a ... Full text Cite

Physiology as a tool for at-risk animal recovery planning: An analysis of Canadian recovery strategies with global recommendations

Journal article Conservation Science and Practice · June 1, 2022 Many government organizations use recovery planning to synthesize threats, propose management strategies, and determine recovery criteria for threatened wildlife. Little is known about the extent to which physiological knowledge has been used in recovery p ... Full text Cite

The role of behavioural flexibility in primate diversification

Journal article Animal Behaviour · October 1, 2021 Identifying the factors that influence species diversification is fundamental to our understanding of the evolutionary processes underlying extant biodiversity. Behavioural innovation, coupled with the social transmission of new behaviours, has been propos ... Full text Cite

Taxonomic biases persist from listing to management for Canadian species at risk

Journal article Écoscience · October 2, 2019 Full text Cite