Étudiants diplômés

PhD (2 in progress): Marine Larrivaz and Florence Landry (started 2020)

MSc (5 graduated, 1 in progress): Kelly Desruelle (graduated 2020), Cassandra Curteanu (graduated 2021), Melila Bouarab and Charlotte St-Onge (graduated 2022), Lucile Dejeans (graduated 2022), Emilie Rich Forgues (started 2020)

Anciens et actuels étudiants de premier cycle, projets indépendants

Université de Montréal: Médrick Heppell (2024, bio), Tara Khayer (2023, bio), Apolline Guillarme (2022, anthropo), Mathieu Gaudreault (2020, bio), Lisandre Robichaud (2020, bio), Pascale Godin (2020, anthropo), Marianne Laurin-Lalonde (2020, anthropo), Jessica Pitre (2020, bio), Emilie Rich Forgues (2020, anthropo), Maryane Gradito (2019, bio), Catherine Bouchard (2019, anthropo), Juliette Penez (2019, bio), Charlotte St-Onge (2019, anthropo), Melila Bouarab (2018, anthropo), Simon L'Allier (2018, anthropo)

Université Laval: Nadia Lemay (2018, environnement)

University of Toronto: Cassandra Curteanu (2018, anthro), Deandra Chipilliquen (2016, anthro)

University of Calgary: Katie Carmichael (2010, anthro)

Journal Articles (**indique mes étudiant·e·s encadré·e·s)

Khayer T**, Desruelle K**, Curteanu C**, Sellen D, Watts D and Bădescu I. In Press. Developmental and Sex-Based Variation in Nest Building Among Wild Immature Chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology AJP-24-0048

Bădescu I, Curteanu C**, Sellen DW, Watts DP and Katzenberg MA. 2025. Investigating infant feeding development in wild chimpanzees using keratin stable isotopes of naturally shed hair. Invited paper to special issue “From Molecules to Metapopulations: Global Research led by Primatologists in Canada” (edited by Teichroeb JA, Melin A). American Journal of Primatology 87: e23552

Anderson KA**, Teichroeb JA, Ramsay MS**, Bădescu I, López-Torres S and Gibb JK**. 2024. Same-sex sexual behavior among mammals is widely observed, yet seldomly reported: Evidence from an online expert survey. PLOS ONE 19(6): e0304885

Most CA, Landry F**, Bădescu I and Wakefield ML. 2024. Intertroop kidnapping of a young infant in wild olive baboons (Papio anubis). Invited paper to special issue “Undocumented animal behaviours – reviving natural history” (edited by Lemaire B, Placì S, De Agrò M, Rößler D). In&Vertebrates DOI:10.52732/GOVP5115

Guillarme A**, Bădescu I and Bolt LM. 2023. L'utilisation de la queue préhensile durant les interactions sociales chez les singes hurleurs à manteau (Alouatta palliata). AnthropoCité 3:39-50

Bădescu I, Watts DP, Curteanu C, Desruelle KJ and Sellen DW. 2022. Effects of infant age and sex, and maternal parity on the interaction of lactation with infant feeding development in chimpanzees. PLOS ONE 17(8): e0272139

Bădescu I, Watts DP, Katzenberg MA and Sellen DW. 2022. Maternal lactational investment is higher for sons in chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76(3): 1-19

Stead SM, Bădescu I and Boonstra R. 2022. Of mammals and milk: how maternal stress affects nursing offspring. Mammal Review 52:129-147

Stead SM, Bădescu I, Raboin DL, Sicotte P, Rothman JM, Baden AL and Teichroeb JA. 2021. High levels of infant handling by adult males in Rwenzori Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) compared to two closely related species, C. guereza and C. vellerosus. Primates 62(4): 637-646

Bădescu I, Sicotte P, Sandel AA, Desruelle KJ, Curteanu C, Watts DP and Sellen DW. 2020. Premasticated food transfer by wild chimpanzee mothers with their infants: Effects of maternal parity, infant age and sex, and food properties. Journal of Human Evolution 143(102794): 1-12

Bădescu I, Katzenberg MA, Watts D and Sellen D. 2017. A novel fecal stable isotope approach to determine the timing of age-related feeding transitions in wild infant chimpanzees. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 162: 285-299

Sicotte P, Teichroeb JA, Vayro JV, Fox SA, Bădescu I and Wikberg EC. 2017. The influence of male takeovers on female dispersal in Colobus vellerosus. American Journal of Primatology 79(7): e22436

Bădescu I, Watts D, Katzenberg MA and Sellen D. 2016. Alloparenting is associated with reduced maternal lactation effort and faster weaning in wild chimpanzees. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160577

Bădescu I, Wikberg EC, Macdonald LJ, Fox SA, Vayro JV, Crotty A and Sicotte P. 2016. Infanticide pressure accelerates infant development in a wild primate. Animal Behaviour 114: 231-239

Bădescu I, Sicotte P, Ting N and Wikberg EC. 2015. Female parity, maternal kinship, infant age and sex influence natal attraction and infant handling in a wild colobine (Colobus vellerosus). American Journal of Primatology 77: 376-387

Wikberg EC, Teichroeb JA, Bădescu I and Sicotte P. 2013. Individualistic female dominance hierarchies with varying strength in a highly folivorous population of black-and-white colobus. Behaviour 150: 295-320

Teichroeb JA, Wikberg EC, Bădescu I, Macdonald LJ and Sicotte P. 2012. Infanticide risk and male quality influence optimal group composition for Colobus vellerosus. Behavioral Ecology 23(6): 1348-1359

Book Chapters

Bădescu I and Larrivaz M**. 2024. Jane Goodall : De jeune naturaliste à activiste écologiste engagée. In: Portraits de femmes et d'hommes remarquables. Volume 2. pp 426-437. Durocher R (ed.). Les Éditions JFD inc., Montréal, Canada

Stead S**, Mucha S and Bădescu I. 2019. Alloparental Care. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. pp 1-7. J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (eds), Springer, Cham, Switzerland

Bădescu D, Roman H and Bădescu I. 2019. Southern Carpathians (Romania): Pârgavul Cave. In: Caves and Karst Systems of Romania. pp 143-148. Ponta GM, Onac BP (eds). Springer, Cham, Switzerland

Bădescu I. 2018. The attainment of independence from the mother in primates and its implications for the evolution of cooperative breeding in hominins. In: The talking species: Perspectives on the evolutionary, neuronal, and cultural foundations of language. pp 165-191. Luef EM, Marin M (eds). Uni-Press Verlag, Graz, Austria