Susan Perry

Susan Perry is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Perry's primary research interests include primate social relationships, primate social cognition, communication; capuchins, macaques. Susan Perry founded the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in 1990, with the help of Joseph Manson and Julie Gros-Louis, for the purpose of studying social intelligence in the white-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus. In the past 17 years of almost continuous observation, the Lomas Barbudal capuchins have become one of the most intensively studied wild monkey population in the world.