SHARON GURSKY-DOYEN

Associate Professor
Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
TAMU 4352
College Station, TX 77843-4352
Office: 316A Anthropology (map)
Phone: 979.862.8462
E-mail: gursky@tamu.edu
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Keywords: Behavioral ecology, conservation, predation, primates, mammals, nocturnality, lunar cycles

Interests:
Dr. Gursky is a physical anthropologist specializing in the behavioral ecology and conservation of the non-human primates. She has conducted research on the spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum), a small nocturnal primate found exclusively on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Her earlier research focuses on the unusual infant caretaking behaviors exhibited by this primate, as well as the relationship between behavior and lunar cycles. Her most recent research project involves the relationship between group living and ecological pressures such as predation and the temporal distribution of resources.

Disciplines: Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Anthropology

Selected publications:
Gursky, S. 2003. The effect of moonlight on the behavior of a nocturnal prosimian primate. International Journal of Primatology 24(2).

Wright, P., Simons, E., and Gursky, S., Editors. 2003. The Tarsiers: Past, Present and Future. Rutgers University Press, NJ.

Gursky, S. 2002. The behavioral ecology of the spectral tarsier. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 11:226-234.

Gursky, S. 2002. The determinants of gregariousness in the spectral tarsier. Journal of Zoology 256:1-10.