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Robert M. Seyfarth, professor and head of psychology at University of Pennsylvania, will speak on “Communication and the Minds of Monkeys” 7 p.m. today in the Oechsle Hall auditorium.
Free and open to the public, the talk is the third and final one of the McKelvy Spring Lecture Series, “Our Modern World.” A reception will follow at McKelvy House.
Seyfarth is author of many journal articles and co-author with D.L. Cheney of How Monkeys See The World: Inside The Mind Of Another Species, published in 1990 by University of Chicago Press. He co-edited Primate Societies, published by University of Chicago Press in 1987.
He has been the recipient of many grants to support his research. Since 1992, he has been co-director of research on the vocal communication of baboons at Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana.
Seyfarth earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in animal behavior from University of Cambridge in 1976.