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Stefano Kaburu
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
530 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 30
Editor 500

Contributions by subject area

Animal Behavior
Ecology
Zoology
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Evolutionary Studies
Anthropology
Computational Biology
Entomology
Taxonomy
Climate Change Biology

Stefano S.K. Kaburu

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Dr Kaburu is currently a Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology at Nottingham Trent University, in the UK. Dr Kaburu completed his PhD in Anthropology in 2014 at the School of Anthropology and Conservation of the University of Kent in the UK, during which he studied grooming behaviour and cooperation in wild chimpanzees.

In 2014-2015, he was a post-doc in Dr Stephen Suomi’s Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, at the National Institutes of Health in the US where he examined the development of social cognition in infant rhesus macaques. Between 2016 and 2018 he was a post-doctoral fellow in Dr Brenda McCowan’s Laboratory at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of California in Davis, during which he studied the drivers and outcome of human-macaque interactions in Northern India.

His main areas of research interests are animal (especially primates) social behaviour and conservation, human-wildlife interactions and infant development

Animal Behavior Anthropology Conservation Biology Coupled Natural & Human Systems Developmental Biology Ecology Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Nottingham Trent University
University of Wolverhampton

Work details

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Trent University
August 2023
School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Dr Kaburu is the course leader of the MSc/MRes Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation and he teaches modules on Species Recovery at Masters level and Physiology of Behaviour at undergraduate level. Since 2016, his research program has focused on studying the interactions between humans and macaques in India and Malaysia and how these interactions affect both human and macaque populations. Macaques show an incredible adaptability to human-modified environment, as they can thrive in different anthropogenic environments. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, Dr Kaburu's research program examines what are the factors driving the interactions between humans and macaques and what are the consequences of these interactions for both the human and macaque populations.

Websites

  • Personal Website
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4

Academic Editor on

May 22, 2025
Description of a novel Ligia species from Nihoa, a remote island in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
Carlos A. Santamaria, Annabelle Bork, Alexandra J. Larson, Daniel J. Link
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19373 PubMed 40416627
December 5, 2024
Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task
Elliot Howard-Spink, Misato Hayashi, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Daniel Schofield, Thibaud Gruber, Dora Biro
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18484 PubMed 39650560
September 27, 2024
Sloth metabolism may make survival untenable under climate change scenarios
Rebecca N. Cliffe, Heather E. Ewart, David M. Scantlebury, Sarah Kennedy, Judy Avey-Arroyo, Daniel Mindich, Rory P. Wilson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18168 PubMed 39351373
May 8, 2024
No sex difference in preen oil chemical composition during incubation in Kentish plovers
Marc Gilles, András Kosztolányi, Afonso D. Rocha, Innes C. Cuthill, Tamás Székely, Barbara A. Caspers
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17243 PubMed 38737740