Staff profile

• Technical intelligence: tool use, object manipulation, extractive foraging
• Social learning
• Primate archaeology
• Animal traditions and culture
• Human-wildlife interactions
• Evolutionary significance of coastal environments

• Evolutionary Anthropology

Chapter in book

• Gumert, M. D., Tan, A. & Malaivijitnond, S. (2019). Long-tailed macaque stone-tool use in intertidal habitats. In Primates in Flooded Habitats. Nowak, K., Barnett, A. A. & Matsuda, I. Cambridge University Press.

Journal Article

• Reeves, Jonathan S., Tan, Amanda, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda & Luncz, Lydia V. (2023). Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290(1995): 20222276.
• Gumert, Michael D., Tan, Amanda Wei Yi, Luncz, Lydia V., Chua, Constance Ting, Kulik, Lars, Switzer, Adam D., Haslam, Michael, Iriki, Atsushi & Malaivijitnond, Suchinda (2019). Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis). Behaviour 156(11): 1083-1125.
• Tan, Amanda W. Y., Hemelrijk, Charlotte K., Malaivijitnond, Suchinda & Gumert, Michael D. (2018). Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users. Animal Cognition 21(4): 551-563.
• Tan, A. W. Y. & Dominy, N. J. (2018). Validation of a Noninvasive Hair Trapping Method for Extractive-Foraging Primates. Folia Primatologica 89(6): 415.
• Luncz, Lydia V, Tan, Amanda, Haslam, Michael, Kulik, Lars, Proffitt, Tomos, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda & Gumert, Michael (2017). Resource depletion through primate stone technology. eLife 6: e23647.
• Tan, Amanda W. Y. (2017). From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative perception-action perspective. Journal of Comparative Psychology 131(2): 89-114.
• Tan, Amanda W. Y., Luncz, Lydia, Haslam, Michael, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda & Gumert, Michael D. (2016). Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation. Primates 57(2): 141.
• Tan, Amanda, Tan, Say Hoon, Vyas, Dhaval, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda & Gumert, Michael D. (2015). There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0124733.