Dr Alexander V. Georgiev

Lecturer in Primatology / Director of Teaching and Learning

Contact info

Wheldon Building, Room 030

Email: a.georgiev@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 388288

https://www.zanzibarredcolobusproject.org

I am a behavioural ecologist and biological anthropologist specialising in research on primate reproductive ecology, physiology and conservation. I direct the Zanzibar Red Colobus Project, a new long-term study of an endangered and endemic primate. Together with my students, in Zanzibar we study how these animals are coping with human-induced changes to their habitat and how anthropogenic disturbance affects their behaviour, physiology, and reproduction.

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas

    Liu, W., Li, Y., Learn, G. H., Rudicell, R. S., Robertson, J. D., Keele, B. F., Ndjango, J-B. N., Sanz, C. M., Morgan, D. B., Locatelli, S., Gonder, M. K., Kranzusch, P. J., Walsh, P. D., Delaporte, E., Mpoudi-Ngole, E., Georgiev, A. V., Muller, M. N., Shaw, G. M., Peeters, M., Sharp, P. M., Rayner, J. C. & Hahn, B. H., 23 Sept 2010, In: Nature. 467, 7314, p. 420-U67

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Oxidative stress as an indicator of the costs of reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaques

    Georgiev, A. V., Thompson, M. E., Mandalaywala, T. & Maestripieri, D., 2015, In: Journal of Experimental Biology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) is unrelated to measures of somatic reproductive effort among young men from Cebu, the Philippines

    Georgiev, A. V., Ryan, C. P., Gettler, L. T., McDade, T. W. & Kuzawa, C. W., Jul 2017, In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 163, 3, p. 437-445

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Seed predation by bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Georgiev, A. V., Thompson, M. E., Lokasola, A. L. & Wrangham, R. W., Oct 2011, In: PRIMATES. 52, 4, p. 309-314

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. The Foraging Costs of Mating Effort in Male Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

    Georgiev, A. V., Russell, A. F., Thompson, M. E., Muller, M. N. & Wrangham, R. W., Aug 2014, In: International Journal of Primatology. 35, 3, p. 725-745

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    The implications of vehicle collisions for the Endangered endemic Zanzibar red colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

    Olgun, H., Mohammed, M. K., Mzee, A. J., Green, M. E. L., Davenport, T. R. B. & Georgiev, A. V., Mar 2022, In: Oryx. 56, 2, p. 268-276 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans

    McDade, T. W., Georgiev, A. V. & Kuzawa, C. W., 6 Jan 2016, In: Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. 2016, 1, p. 1-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. What cortisol can tell us about the costs of sociality and reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago

    Maestripieri, D. & Georgiev, A. V., 16 Jan 2015, In: American Journal of Primatology. 78, 1, p. 92-105

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. When Violence Pays: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Aggressive Behavior in Animals and Humans

    Georgiev, A. V., Klimczuk, A. C. E., Traficonte, D. M. & Maestripieri, D., 2013, In: Evolutionary Psychology. 11, 3, p. 678-699

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Widespread extinctions of co-diversified primate gut bacterial symbionts from humans

    Sanders, J. G., Sprockett, D. D., Li, Y., Mjungu, D., Lonsdorf, E. V., Ndjango, J-B. N., Georgiev, A. V., Hart, J. A., Sanz, C. M., Morgan, D. B., Peeters, M., Hahn, B. H. & Moeller, A. H., Jun 2023, In: Nature Microbiology. 8, 6, p. 1039-1050 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review