Anita Stone, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
She/ela/ella
astone@callutheran.edu
(805) 493-3068
Swenson Science Center 205
Areas of expertise: Behavioral Ecology; primatology
香蕉传媒
Pronouns: She/ella/ela
A native of Brazil, Dr. Stone is a behavioral ecologist specializing in Neotropical primates. Her field research takes place in Eastern Amazonia, where she has studied the same population of squirrel monkeys since 2000. Dr. Stone is interested in primate life histories, social behavior and sexual selection, and actively integrates undergraduate students into her fieldwork.
Dr. Stone teaches Experimental Biology laboratory, Introduction to Ecology & Populations, Evolution, Primate Ecology, Animal Behavior, Biology of Sex & Gender and Scientific Literature.
When she is not at Cal Lutheran or chasing monkeys in the Amazon, Dr. Stone enjoys karaoke with her friends, and spending time with her cat, Cedric.
Education
Post-doctoral fellowship, 2005-2007. University of California, Davis. Psychology (Animal Behavior)
Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
B.A. Oberlin College, 1996. Biology with minor in Psychology
Expertise
Behavioral ecology, primatology, evolution of social behavior, life history evolution.
Publications
Merces, M.P., Byrne, H., Finnegan, N., Harada, M.L., Paim, F.P., Silva, F.E., Stone, A.I. Lima, M., Rylands, A.B., Silva Junior, J.S.S., Lynch, J.W. 2026. Phylogenomics of Amazonian squirrel monkeys (Saimiri: Primates, Cebidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 215: 108487.
Barnett, A.A., Stone, A.I., Ronchi-Teles, B., Spironello, W.R., Shaw, P. and Wenzel, J.W. 2023. When food fights back: At nest predation of larval and adult paper wasps (Polistinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera) by Cebus albifrons and Saimiri collinsi (Cebidae, Primates) and the high-energy yield of three risk-sensitive foraging techniques. Austral Ecology 48: 719-742.
Eppley, T.M., ... Stone, A.I. 2022. Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar. PNAS 119 (42): e2121105119
Aghababian, S.C., Stone, A.I. and Brown, C. E. 2021. Is play sexually dimorphic in the polygamous squirrel monkey? American Journal of Undergraduate Research 18: 13-20.
Stone, A.I. and Williams, L. 2021. Behavioral biology of squirrel monkeys. In: Coleman, K. and Schapiro, S. J. (Eds). Behavioral Biology of Laboratory Animals, pp. 395-407. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Stone, A.I. and Ruivo, L.V.P. 2020. Synchronization of weaning time with peak fruit availability in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi) living in Amazonian Brazil. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23139
Grant Funding
2022-2026. National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: RUI: Signals of genetic quality and mate choice in squirrel monkeys. Role: Lead PI.