Peter H Klopfer, Professor Emeritus
Education:
PhD, Yale University, 1957
Office Location: 050 Bio Sci
Office Phone: (919) 684-3991
Email Address: phk@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- by arrangement
Specialties:
Organismal Biology and Behavior
Research Categories: animal behavior and behavioral ecology
Current projects: sleep and hibernation behavior in prosimian primates
Research Description: mother-infant attachments in mammals and imprinting in birds development and control of aggressive behavior, and its neurobiological mechanisms. causes of species diversity. hibernation in lemurs
Areas of Interest:
maternal attachment
aggression
species diversity
hibernation
Recent Publications (search)
- P.H. Klopfer, A.Krystal, C.Williams, and A.Yoder, Neuroethology: Do hibernating lemurs sleep?, Nova Acta Leopoldina (Accepted, March, 2012) .
- Krystal, A., B. Schopler, S.Kobbe, C.Williams, H. Rakatondrainibe, A.Yoder, and P. Klopfer, Discovery of a novel REMsleep-like state in a hibernating primate, Cheirogaleus medius (Submitted, 2012) .
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