| My long-standing interest in the evolutionary biology of white-faced sakis and bearded sakis includes research related to food choice, nutritional and mechanical properties of foods eaten, evolution of sexual dichromatism in white-faced sakis, social cohesion differences in white-faced and bearded sakis, and the floristic ecology of Guiana Shield forests.
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:
| Institution |
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Major |
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Degree & Year |
| University of San Diego |
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Nursing |
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BS, 1975 |
| San Diego State University |
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Anthropology |
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MA, 1978 |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
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Anthropology |
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PhD, 1986 |
APPOINTMENTS:
| 1998-present |
Kent State University (KSU), OH; associate professor in the department of
anthropology and graduate faculty in School of Biomedical Sciences, KSU |
| 1992-1998 |
Kent State University, OH; assistant professor in the department of anthropology
and graduate faculty in School of Biomedical Sciences, KSU |
| 1991-1991 |
University of California, San Diego, CA; lecturer |
| 1988-1990 |
University of California, Davis, CA; lecturer |
| 1987 |
Washington University, St. Louis, visiting assistant professor |
| 1986 |
Hunter College, New York, adjunct faculty |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Kinzey, W.G. and Norconk, M.A. 1990. Hardness as a basis of fruit choice in two sympatric primates. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 81:5-15. [PDF 3.66MB]
Norconk, M.A. 1990. Mechanisms promoting stability in mixed Saguinus mystax and S. fuscicollis
troops. American Journal of Primatology 21:159-170. [PDF 3.62MB]
Kinzey, W.G. and Norconk, M.A. 1993. Physical and chemical properties of fruit and seeds eaten by Pithecia
and Chiropotes in Surinam and Venezuela. International Journal of Primatology 14(2):207-227. [PDF
3.42MB]
Norconk, M.A. and Kinzey, W.G. 1994. Challenge of neotropical frugivory: travel patterns of spider monkeys
and bearded sakis. American Journal of Primatology 34:171-133. [PDF 4.08MB]
Norconk, M.A. 1996. Seasonal variation in the diets of white-faced and bearded sakis (Pithecia pithecia
and Chiropotes satanas) in Guri Lake, Venezuela. In Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primates. M.A. Norconk, A.L.Rosenberger,
P.A. Garber (eds.). New York: Plenum. Pp. 403-423. [PDF 4.69MB]
Rosenberger, A.L., Norconk, M.A., Garber, P.A. 1996. New Perspectives on the Pitheciines. In Adaptive
Radiations of Neotropical Primates. M.A. Norconk, A.L.Rosenberger, P.A. Garber (eds.). New York: Plenum. Pp. 403-423. [PDF
1.3MB]
Norconk, M.A., Wertis, C.A., Kinzey, W.G. 1997. Seed predation by monkeys and macaws in eastern Venezuela:
preliminary findings. Primates 38(2):177-184. [PDF 2.3MB]
Norconk, M.A., Grafton, B.W., and Conklin-Brittain, N.L. 1998. Seed dispersal by neotropical seed predators.
American Journal of Primatology 45:103-126. [PDF 269 KB]
Norconk, M.A., Oftedal, O.T., Power, M.L., Jakubasz, M., Savage, A. 2002. Digesta passage and fiber digestibility in captive white-faced
sakis (Pithecia pithecia). American Journal of Primatology 58:23-34. [PDF 135KB]
Gleason, T.M., Norconk, M.A. 2002. Predation risk and anti-predator adaptations in white-faced sakis,
Pithecia pithecia. In Eat or Be Eaten: Predation-Sensitive Foraging in Primates. L. Miller (ed). Cambridge University Press.
Pp. 169-184. [PDF 2.6MB]
Norconk, M.A., Grafton, B.W. 2003. Changes in forest composition and potential feeding tree availability
on a small land-bridge island in Lago Guri, Venezuela. In Primates in Fragments: Ecology and Conservation. L.K. Marsh (ed).
Kluwer/Plenum Press. Pp: 211-228. [PDF 441KB]
Norconk, M.A. Conklin-Brittain, N.L. 2004. Variation on frugivory: the diet of venezuelan white-faced
sakis (Pithecia pithecia). International Journal of Primatology 25(1):1-25. [PDF
385KB]
Norconk, M.A. 2006. Long-term study of group dynamics and female reproduction in Venezuelan Pithecia pithecia.
International Journal of Primatology 27:653-674. [PDF: print 2.23MB | web
667KB]
Norconk, M.A. 2007. Sakis, uakaris, and titi monkeys. In Primates in Perspective. C.J. Campbell, A. Fuentes,
K. MacKinnon, M. Panger, S. Bearder (eds). New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 123-138. [PDF
5.45MB]
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