Staff profile

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

Chapter in book

• Long-tailed macaque stone-tool use in intertidal habitats
  
  Gumert, M., Tan, A., & Malaivijitnond, S. (2019). Long-tailed macaque stone-tool use in intertidal habitats. In K. Nowak, A. Barnett, & I. Matsuda (Eds.), Primates in Flooded Habitats. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316466780

Journal Article

• Network analysis highlights socio-demographic patterns of stone tool-using primates
  
  Giraud, G. T. L., O’Malley, T. D. R., Reeves, J. S., Tan, A., Sosa, S., Malaivijitnond, S., & Luncz, L. V. (2026). Network analysis highlights socio-demographic patterns of stone tool-using primates. Scientific Reports, 16(1), Article 23720. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61772-4
• Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns
  
  Rosien, J. E., Fannin, L. D., Yeakel, J. D., Malaivijitnond, S., Dominy, N. J., & Tan, A. (2025). Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns. ELife, 13, Article RP98520. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.98520
• Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques
  
  Reeves, J. S., Tan, A., Malaivijitnond, S., & Luncz, L. 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), Article 20222276. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2276
• Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis)
  
  Gumert, M. D., Tan, A. W. Y., Luncz, L. V., Chua, C. T., Kulik, L., Switzer, A. D., Haslam, M., Iriki, A., & Malaivijitnond, S. (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. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003557
• Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users
  
  Tan, A. W., Hemelrijk, C. K., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2018). Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users. Animal Cognition, 21(4), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1188-9
• Validation of a Noninvasive Hair Trapping Method for Extractive-Foraging Primates
  
  Tan, A., & Dominy, N. (2018). Validation of a Noninvasive Hair Trapping Method for Extractive-Foraging Primates. Folia Primatologica, 89(6). https://doi.org/10.1159/000492328
• Resource depletion through primate stone technology
  
  Luncz, L. V., Tan, A., Haslam, M., Kulik, L., Proffitt, T., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. (2017). Resource depletion through primate stone technology. ELife, 6, Article e23647. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.23647
• From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative perception-action perspective.
  
  Tan, A. W. (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. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000068
• Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation
  
  Tan, A. W., Luncz, L., Haslam, M., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2016). Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation. Primates, 57(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0525-3
• There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use
  
  Tan, A., Tan, S. H., Vyas, D., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. 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). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124733