Rebecca Rimbach
Postdoctoral Associate
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Postdoctoral Associate, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Contact Information
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rebecca.rimbach@duke.edu
+1 919 684 4124
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Pontzer, Herman, Rebecca Rimbach, Jenny Paltan, Erin L. Ivory, and Corinne J. Kendall. “Air temperature and diet influence body composition and water turnover in zoo-living African elephants (Loxodonta africana).” Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 11 (November 25, 2020): 201155. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201155.Full Text
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Pontzer, H., R. Rimbach, J. Paltan, E. L. Ivory, and C. J. Kendall. “Air temperature and diet influence body composition and water turnover in zoo-living African elephants (Loxodonta africana): Water turnover in African elephants.” Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 11 (November 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201155rsos201155.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Stéphane Blanc, Alexandre Zahariev, Jean-Patrice Robin, Neville Pillay, and Carsten Schradin. “Fat content of striped mice decreases during the breeding season but not during the food-restricted dry season.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Pt 24 (December 12, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.208504.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Stéphane Blanc, Alexandre Zahariev, Neville Pillay, and Carsten Schradin. “Daily energy expenditure of males following alternative reproductive tactics: Solitary roamers spend more energy than group-living males.” Physiology & Behavior 199 (February 2019): 359–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.12.003.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Stéphane Blanc, Alexandre Zahariev, Maria Gatta, Neville Pillay, and Carsten Schradin. “Seasonal variation in energy expenditure in a rodent inhabiting a winter-rainfall desert.” Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 188, no. 5 (September 2018): 877–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-018-1168-z.Full Text
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Schradin, Carsten, Pauline Vuarin, and Rebecca Rimbach. “The neoteny-helper hypothesis: When to expect and when not to expect endocrine mechanisms to regulate allo-parental care?” Physiology & Behavior 193, no. Pt A (September 2018): 127–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.12.008.Full Text
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Pillay, Neville, and Rebecca Rimbach. “Protein deficiency decreases stereotypic behavior frequency and prevalence and activity in the striped mouse Rhabdomys dilectus chakae.” Developmental Psychobiology 60, no. 2 (March 2018): 194–201. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21587.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Jörg Jäger, Neville Pillay, and Carsten Schradin. “Food Availability Is the Main Driver of Seasonal Changes in Resting Metabolic Rate in African Striped Mice (Rhabdomys pumilio).” Physiological and Biochemical Zoology : Pbz 91, no. 2 (March 2018): 826–33. https://doi.org/10.1086/696828.Full Text
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Jäger, Jörg, Carsten Schradin, Neville Pillay, and Rebecca Rimbach. “Active and explorative individuals are often restless and excluded from studies measuring resting metabolic rate: Do alternative metabolic rate measures offer a solution?” Physiology & Behavior 174 (May 2017): 57–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.02.037.Full Text
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Rimbach, R., M. Wastavino, C. H. Yuen, N. Pillay, and C. Schradin. “Contrasting activity budgets of alternative reproductive tactics in male striped mice.” Journal of Zoology 301, no. 4 (April 1, 2017): 280–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12414.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Neville Pillay, and Carsten Schradin. “Both thyroid hormone levels and resting metabolic rate decrease in African striped mice when food availability decreases.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 220, no. Pt 5 (March 2017): 837–43. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.151449.Full Text
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Rimbach, R., R. Willigenburg, I. Schoepf, C. H. Yuen, N. Pillay, and C. Schradin. “Young But Not Old Adult African Striped Mice Reduce Their Activity in the Dry Season When Food Availability is Low.” Ethology 122, no. 10 (October 1, 2016): 828–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12527.Full Text
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Pillay, Neville, Rebecca Rimbach, and Tasmin Rymer. “Pre- and postnatal dietary protein deficiency influences anxiety, memory and social behaviour in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys dilectus chakae.” Physiology & Behavior 161 (July 2016): 38–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.04.015.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Donal Bisanzio, Nelson Galvis, Andrés Link, Anthony Di Fiore, and Thomas R. Gillespie. “Brown spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus): a model for differentiating the role of social networks and physical contact on parasite transmission dynamics.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 370, no. 1669 (May 2015). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0110.Full Text
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Nel, Kerith, Rebecca Rimbach, and Neville Pillay. “Dietary protein influences the life-history characteristics across generations in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys.” Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology 323, no. 2 (February 2015): 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1903.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Andrés Link, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Anthony Di Fiore, Michael Heistermann, and Eckhard W. Heymann. “Behavioral and physiological responses to fruit availability of spider monkeys ranging in a small forest fragment.” American Journal of Primatology 76, no. 11 (November 2014): 1049–61. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22292.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Eckhard W. Heymann, Andrés Link, and Michael Heistermann. “Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for assessing adrenocortical activity and evaluation of factors that affect levels of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in two New World primates.” General and Comparative Endocrinology 191 (September 2013): 13–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.010.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Andrés Link, Michael Heistermann, Carolina Gómez-Posada, Nelson Galvis, and Eckhard W. Heymann. “Effects of logging, hunting, and forest fragment size on physiological stress levels of two sympatric ateline primates in Colombia.” Conservation Physiology 1, no. 1 (January 2013): cot031. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cot031.Full Text
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Rimbach, Rebecca, Alejandra Pardo-Martinez, Andres Montes-Rojas, Anthony Di Fiore, and Andres Link. “Interspecific infanticide and infant-directed aggression by spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus) in a fragmented forest in Colombia.” American Journal of Primatology 74, no. 11 (November 2012): 990–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22052.Full Text
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