Get in touch! @delphinedemoor.bsky.social‬

Hello! I am Delphine, a behavioural ecologist interested in the evolution, function and diversity of animal social relationships. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher with Jenny Tung at the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

In my research, I combine detailed studies of the causes and consequences of social relationships with broad, cross-species comparisons of social systems. Much of my work focuses on studying social relationships in long-term research sites, including the baboons of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project and macaques at the Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary and the Cayo Santiago Field Station. In these systems, I look at how evolutionary pressures and constraints shape individual social networks, including how factors like kinship, the environment, and genetics influence social behaviour.

To see how these patterns hold across species, and to better understand what drives variation in social networks, I also take a comparative approach. As part of this, I created MacaqueNet, a global network of macaque researchers. Together, we’ve built a standardised dataset on social behaviour across 61 populations and 14 macaque species.

You can find out more about my past and ongoing projects here, and find my publications and CV here. Thanks for visiting!

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