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Hello! I am Delphine, I am a behavioural ecologist interested in the evolution, function and diversity of animal social relationships. I integrate detailed analyses of the causes and consequences of social relationships in long-term studies with broad-scale, comparative analyses of social structures accross species.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher with Lauren Brent at the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) of the University of Exeter (UK). I am part of FriendOrigins, an ERC Consolidator project, aimed at understanding the evolutionary origins of friendship. Taking a cross-species comparative approach, I investigate how environmental factors and evolutionary history shape variation in social structure. For this, I co-created MacaqueNet, a global network of macaque researchers, through which we've built a collaborative and standardised cross-species dataset on 61 population across 14 species, representing data on the social lives of over 3000 individually recognised macaques. By studying social relationships in macaques, with known phylogenetic relationships and varying ecological pressures, we can explicitly address task which types of social connectedness are adaptive, and why.
Research should be accessible to all. As part of the team behind the Animal Behaviour Collective - I organise microgrants & mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour. If you can, please consider donating or signing up as a mentor!