Sarah Partan

Biography
Sarah Partan, Associate Professor of Animal Behavior, received her Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the University of California, Davis, and her B.A. in Biopsychology from Wesleyan University. Her research interests are in the areas of animal social behavior and communication, and animal responses to climate change. She is particularly interested in multisensory signaling: how and why animals (including humans) combine signals from multiple sensory channels during communication, and how this may help cope with environmental change. She has studied these and related questions in observational studies of wild African elephants, rhesus macaques, squirrels and lizards, and in controlled laboratory studies of birds and dolphins. Sarah is currently creating mechanized animals that simulate animal displays, to use in field playback experiments that combine the rigor of laboratory experiments with the natural setting of the field environment.

Education
Ph.D. in animal behavior from University of California, Davis B.A. in biopsychology from Wesleyan University

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