Responsibilities

• Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Ecology
• Course Leader for Zoology

Teaching (current)

Module Leader for:
Behaviour and Management of Zoo Animals
Mammalogy
Practical Biology
Wildlife Conservation and Management

Other Modules:
Animal Form and Function
Animal Ecophysiology
British Wildlife and Conservation
Vertebrate Biology

Research

Colour vision

• Ecological influences of perceptual capabilities.
• Evolution and advantages of trichromacy.
• Maintenance of colour vision polymorphism in New World monkeys.

Conservation

• Primate habitat use and resource requirements, distribution and populations.
• Management & welfare of zoo animals.

Ecology

• Specialisation and niche partitioning; mixed-species associations.
• Spatio-ecology; inter-individual distances and group leadership.
• Influence of predation pressure.

Nutrition

• Mineral requirements; exudates; temporal patterns of feeding.

For more information please visit - Animal and Environmental Research Group (AERG)

Collaborations

The Universities of Cambridge, Sussex and Stirling (UK)
The Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (Peru)
The Natural History Museum (UK)
The Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Germany)
The Wildlife Conservation Society (USA)
The Smithsonian Institution (USA)
Operation Wallacea (UK)

Publications

Smith AC; Surridge AK; Prescott MJ; Osorio D; Mundy NI; Buchanan-Smith HM (2012) The effect of colour vision status on insect prey capture efficiency by captive and wild tamarins (Saguinus spp.) Animal Behaviour 83:479-486

Smith A. C, & Gray H (2011) Goldfish in a tank: the effect of substrate on foraging behaviour in aquarium fish. Animal Welfare. 20:311-319

Unwin, T & Smith, AC 2010 Behavioural differences between provisioned and non-provisioned Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). Anthrozoös 23: 109-118

Smith A. C. 2010 Exudativory in primates: interspecific patterns. In Burrows A, Nash L (eds) The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates pp 45-88. Springer.

Smith A. C. 2010 Influences on gum feeding in primates. In Burrows A, Nash L (eds) The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates pp 109-122. Springer.

Smith, A. C. 2010 Exotic companion animal. In Mills, D. Marchant-Forde JN; McGreevy P. D. Morton D. B. Nicol C. J. Phillips C. J. C. Sandøe; Swaisgood RR (ed) The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare, pp 235-236. CABI, London

Pankhurst, S., Conlan, H., Rogers, M., and Smith, A. C. 2010. Preliminary survey of woodmice (Apodemus sylvaticus) on the Isle of Rum, Inner Hebrides. Scottish Natural Heritage (survey report)

Smith, A. C. Knogge, C; Huck, M; Löttker, P; Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Heymann, E. W. 2007 Long term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached tamarins (S. mystax). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134: 340-353.

Surridge, A. K, Suárez, S. S, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Smith, A. C, & Mundy N. I 2005 Colour Vision Pigment Frequencies in Wild Tamarins (Saguinus spp.). American Journal of Primatology 67: 463-470.

Prescott M. J, Buchanan-Smith H. M, Smith A. C 2005 Social interaction with non-averse group-mates modifies a learned food aversion in single- and mixed-species groups of tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis and S. labiatus). American Journal of Primatology: 65: 313-26.

Smith, A. C. Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Surridge, A & Mundy, N 2005. Factors affecting group spread within wild mixed-species troops of saddleback and moustached tamarins. International Journal of Primatology: 26: 337-355.

Osorio, D., Smith, AC., Vorobyev, M & Buchanan-Smith, HM. (2004) Detection of fruit and the selection of primate visual pigments for colour vision. American Naturalist.164: 696-708

Smith, A. C, Kelez, S & Buchanan-Smith, H. M 2004 Factors affecting vigilance within wild mixed-species troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (S. mystax). Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 56:18-25.

Smith, A. C. Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Surridge, A & Mundy, N 2003 Factors affecting group leadership within wild mixed-species groups of saddleback and moustached tamarins, with special emphasis on colour vision and sex. American Journal of Primatology 61:145-157.

Smith, A. C. Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Surridge, A; Mundy, N & Osorio, D 2003 The effect of colour vision status on the detection and selection of fruits by tamarins (Saguinus spp.). The Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3159-3165.

Smith, A. C. Buchanan-Smith, HM; Surridge, A & Mundy, N 2003. The effect of colour vision status and sex on leadership within wild mixed-species groups of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (S. mystax). American Journal of Primatology.

Smith, A. C & Buchanan-Smith, H. M 2003. Factors affecting vigilance in wild tamarins (Saguinus) Behavioural Ecology & Scociobiology.

Smith, A. C. Tirado, E. R. Buchanan-Smith, H. M & Heymann, E. W 2002. Multiple breeding females and allo-nursing in a wild group of moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). Neotropical Primates. 9 (2): 67-69.

Surridge, A; Smith, A.C; Mundy, N & Buchanan-Smith, H.M 2002. Single-copy nuclear DNA sequences obtained from non-invasively collected primate feces. American Journal of Primatology. 56 (3): 185-190.

Smith, A. C 2000. Composition and proposed nutritional importance of exudates eaten by saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached (Saguinus mystax) tamarins. International Journal of Primatology. 21(1): 69-83.

Smith, A. C 2000. Interspecific differences in prey captured by associating saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached (Saguinus mystax) tamarins. Journal of Zoology. 251(3): 315-324.

Heymann, E. W & Smith, A. C 1999 When to feed on gums - temporal patterns of gummivory in wild tamarins, Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis (Callitrichinae). Zoo Biology 18 (6): 459-471.

Smith, A. C 1999 Potential competitors for exudates eaten by saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached (Saguinus mystax) tamarins. Neotropical Primates 7(3): 73-75.

Heymann, E. W. Knogge, C. Tirado, E. R, & Smith, A. C. 1998 Unter Affengnomen im Amazonasregenwald - Freilandforschung an Tamarinen in Peru (Amongst gnome monkeys in Amazon rainforest - Field research on tamarins in Peru). Zeitschrift des Kvlner Zoo 41(2): 63-84.

Smith, A. C 1996 Orthopteran prey capture in wild saddle-back and moustached tamarins in north-eastern Peru. Primate Eye 59: 17-18.

Conference papers

Smith, A. C. Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Surridge, A. Prescot, M. J. Osorio, D & Mundy, N. 2010. The effect of colour vision status on prey capture by captive and wild tamarins (Saguinus Spp.). The XXIIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Kyoto.

Smith, A. C. Gray H 2009 Goldfish in a tank: effect of substrate on foraging behaviour. 30th International Ethological Conference, Rennes, France.

Smith, A. C. 2008. Exudativory in primates: what, why, and when. The XXIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh.

Smith, A. C & Buchanan-Smith, H. M. 2007. Food, sex & violence: Influences on intergroup encounters in tamarins (Saguinus spp.). Second Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Prague, Czech Rep.

Smith, A. .; Knogge, C. Huck, M. Löttker, P. Buchanan-Smith, H. M. Heymann, E. W. 2007 Sleeping sites in primates: The effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation and resource defence constraints. International Ethological Conference, Halifax, Canada

Smith, A. C & Buchanan-Smith, H. M. 2007. Factors influencing intergroup encounters in wild mixed-species troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarins (S. mystax). Primate Society of Great Britain, spring meeting - Durham.

Smith A. C, Basset L, Williams S, Parkinson, R. 2005. Buton macques: Population and behaviour. Ecology of Lambusango: Five years of research - University of Hull Scarborough Campus meeting.

Surridge A. K. Suarez S. S. Buchanan-Smith H. M, Smith A. C, & Mundy N. I 2004. Distribution of colour vision phenotypes in wild tamarins. The XXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Taurino, Italy.

Smith A. C., Buchanan-Smith H. Surridge A. & Mundy N. 2004. Effects of colour vision on group spread within wild mixed-species troops of tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis and Saguinus mystax) The XXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Taurino, Italy.

Smith A. C 2004. From The Amazon to Northern Ireland: Unravelling the Mysteries of Primate Colour Vision. Rank Prize Symposium: The Assessment of Foodstuffs by the Eye and by Instrumentation. Kendal, UK

Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Smith, A. C, Surridge, A, Mundy, N & Osorio, D. 2003 Colour vision and cognition in primates. Primate Society of Great Britain, spring meeting - St Andrew's.

Vorobyev, M. Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Osorio, D & Cronin T. W. 2003. Fruits, flowers and origins of primate trichromacy. Australian Neuroscience Meeting.

Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Surridge, A, Mundy, N & Osorio, D. 2002 The effect of colour vision status on the detection and selection of fruits by tamarins (Saguinus spp.). Primate Society of Great Britain, spring meeting - Oxford.

Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Smith, A. C, Prescott, M. J, Surridge, A, Mundy, N & Osorio, D. 2002. The effect of colour vision phenotype on foraging success in tamarins (Saguinus) spp. The XIXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Beijing, China.

Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Surridge, A & Mundy, N. 2001. Colour blindness: An advantage for prey capture in primates? Primate Society of Great Britain, spring meeting - Bolton.

Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Surridge, A & Mundy, N. 2001. Does colour vision genotype affect insect capture in tamarins? The XVIII Congress of the International Primatological Society - Adelaide, Australia.

Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, & Prescott, M. J. 2001. Sex differences in prey capture by tamarins. The XVIII Congress of the International Primatological Society - Adelaide, Australia.

Smith, A. C, Buchanan-Smith, H. M, Surridge, A & Mundy, N. 2001 Wild Eyes; camouflage, prey capture and colour vision in primates. Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour - Edinburgh.

Surridge, A.K., Buchanan-Smith, H.M. Smith, A.C., Prescott, M.J. & Mundy, N.I. 2001. Genetic polymorphism at the opsin locus - colour vision and foraging ability in New World primates. Photopigments, Colour Vision and Evolution Meeting.

Smith, A. C. 1996 Orthopteran prey capture in wild saddle-back and moustached tamarins in north-eastern Peru. Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, spring meeting - Norwich.

Smith, A. C. Knogge, C & Puertas, P 1995 Insectivory in the primates. XXXVI Convencion National de Entomologia, Iquitos, Peru.