Stacy M. Lindshield
- Associate Professor // Anthropology
Office and Contact
Courses
ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 204 Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution
ANTH 212 Culture, Food, and Health
ANTH 235 The Great Apes
ANTH 335 Primate Behavior
ANTH 536 Primate Ecology
Ph.D. Iowa State University 2014
M.A. Iowa State University 2006
B.G.S. University of Kansas 2002
Specialization
primate behavior, ecology, nutrition, conservation, hunting, food sharing, tool use, biological corridors, ethnoprimatology, predation, competition, Senegal, Costa Rica
Her research program bridges primate behavior with ecology and evolutionary anthropology, and focuses on chimpanzees’ adaptive and behavioral responses to semi-arid environments. She is the cofounder of the Assirik Chimpanzee Research (Recherche Chimpanzé Assirik) project at Niokolo-Koba National Park in Senegal, runs a primate nutrition laboratory that is equipped to analyze macronutrients in wild foods, and engages in collaborative research using science and technology to measure behavior, health, and environment. Using the lessons learned from basic research, her applied work addresses conservation and sustainability challenges, particularly the impacts of gold mining on chimpanzees in Senegal, and the effectiveness of arboreal wildlife bridges—an emerging mitigation tool—for Costa Rican monkeys. Her work has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, Rufford Small Grant Foundation, Margot Marsh Foundation, and Primate Conservation, Inc.
Publications
2025 Lindshield S, Badji L, Ndiaye PI, Ortmann S, Tombak K, Pruetz JD, Rothman JM. The nutritional ecology of male chimpanzee diets in a semiarid savanna. Journal of Human Evolution 204: 103684. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103684.
2025 Lindshield S, Boyer Ontl K, Gašperšič M, Goudiaby A, Ndiaye PI, Pruetz JD, Tappan G, Tombak K, Wessling E. Roads and woody vegetation structure are associated with chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) occurrence at its northern range limit. Journal of Biogeography 52: 294-303. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.15034.
2024 Lindshield S, Ndiaye PI, Walters A, Bogart SL. A survey of nocturnality and risk for savanna chimpanzees at Assirik, Senegal. Folia Primatologica 95: 191-201. DOI: 10.1163/14219980-bja10032.
2024 Pruetz JD, Bogart SL, Lindshield S, Walkup KR. Feeding related tool use in primates – a systematic overview. In: Lambert J, Bryer MAH, Rothman J (eds). How primates eat: A synthesis of nutritional ecology across a mammal order. University of Chicago Press.
2025 Lindshield S, Boyer Ontl K, Gašperšič M, Goudiaby A, Ndiaye PI, Pruetz JD, Tappan G, Tombak K, Wessling E. Roads and woody vegetation structure are associated with chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) occurrence at its northern range limit. Journal of Biogeography 52: 294-303. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.15034.
2024 Lindshield S, Ndiaye PI, Walters A, Bogart SL. A survey of nocturnality and risk for savanna chimpanzees at Assirik, Senegal. Folia Primatologica 95: 191-201. DOI: 10.1163/14219980-bja10032.
2024 Pruetz JD, Bogart SL, Lindshield S, Walkup KR. Feeding related tool use in primates – a systematic overview. In: Lambert J, Bryer MAH, Rothman J (eds). How primates eat: A synthesis of nutritional ecology across a mammal order. University of Chicago Press.
2024 Ndiaye YH, Ndiaye PI, Lindshield S, Pruetz JD. Updating chimpanzee nesting data at Mount Assirik (Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal): Implications for conservation. Animals 14: 553. DOI:10.3390/ani14040553.
2023 Chen H, Lindshield S, Ndiaye PI, Ndiaye YH, Pruetz JD, Reibman AR. Applying few-shot learning for in-the-wild camera-trap species. AI 4: 574-597. DOI: 10.3390/ai4030031.
2023 Achorn AM, Lindshield S, Ndiaye PI, Winking J, Pruetz JD. Reciprocity and beyond: Explaining meat transfers in savanna-dwelling chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 182: 224-236. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24815.
2022 Narváez Rivera GM, Lindshield S. Assessing the importance of artificial canopy bridge design for Costa Rican monkeys in an experimental setting. Folia Primatologica 93: 397-417. DOI: 10.1163/14219980-20211104.
2022 Fan Y, Lindshield S. Exploring human factors of wildlife conservation along a forest gap using a participatory design-build monkey bridge. Folia Primatologica 93: 437-452. DOI: 10.1163/14219980-20211114.
2022 N’da KM, Dahourou LD, Ndiaye PI, Lindshield S, Gbati OB, Traore A. Gastrointestinal parasites of baboons (Papio papio) in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Open Veterinary Journal 12: 481-488. DOI: 10.5455/OVJ.2022.v12.i4.9.
2022 Sylla SF, Ndiaye PI, Lindshield S, Bogart SL, Pruetz JD. The western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Antenna Zone (Niokolo Koba National Park, Sénégal): Nesting ecology and sympatric mammals. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 20: 2663-2681. DOI: 10.15666/aeer/2003_26632681.
2022 Aureli F, Hutschenreiter A, Araya D, Arévalo-Huezo E, Avila Atagua T, Boiledieu C, González Gallina A, Lindshield S, Narváez Rivera GM, Rufrey V, Thurber M, Spaan D. Do spider monkeys use faunal overpasses to cross linear infrastructure? Folia Primatologica 93: 361-370. DOI: 10.1163/14219980-20211204.
2021 Lindshield S, Hernandez-Aguilar RA, Korstjens AH, Marchant LF, Narat V, Ndiaye PI, Ogawa H, Piel AK, Pruetz JD, Stewart FA, van Leeuwen KL, Wessling EG, Yoshikawa M. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in savanna landscapes. Evolutionary Anthropology 30: 399-420. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21924.
2021 Moore J, Balbuena D, Cheyne SM, Carrasco-Rueda F, Whitworth A, Forget PM, Olson ER, Beirne C, Bowler M, Lindshield S, Haysom J, Martin JG. Gregory T. The Potential and Practice of Arboreal Camera Trapping. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12: 1768-1779 DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13666.
2021 Lindshield SM, Rothman JM, Ortmann S, Pruetz JD. Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) access a nutritionally balanced, high energy, and abundant food, baobab (Adansonia digitata) fruit, with extractive foraging and reingestion. American Journal of Primatology. 83: e23307. DOI: 10.1002/AJP.23307.
2021 Lindshield SM, Narváez Rivera GM. Primate conservation. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
2020 Pruetz JD, Bogart SL, Lindshield SM. 2020. Extractive foraging in an extreme environment: Tool and proto-tool use by chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal. In: Hopper LM, Ross SR (eds). Chimpanzees in context: A comparative perspective on chimpanzee behavior, cognition, conservation, and welfare. University of Chicago Press. pp. 391-409.
2020 Marchant LF, Wessling EG, Lindshield SM. 2020. Introduction to the special issue on savanna chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology 41: 767-774. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-020-00188-x.
2019 Lindshield S, Bogart SL, Gueye M, Ndiaye PI, Pruetz JD. 2019. Informing protection efforts for critically endangered chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and sympatric mammals amidst rapid growth of extractive industries in Senegal. Folia Primatologica 90: 124–136. DOI: 10.1159/000496145.
2018. Ndiaye, P.I., Badji, L., Lindshield, S.M., Pruetz, J.D. Nest-building behavior by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the non-protected area of Diaguiri (Kedougou, Senegal): Implications for conservation. Folia Primatologica 89(5): 316-326. DOI:10.1159/000490945.
2018. Ndiaye, P.I., Lindshield, S.M., Badji, L., Pacheco, L., Wessling, E., Boyer-Ontl, K.M., Pruetz, & J.D. Survey of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) outside of protected areas in southeastern Senegal. African Journal of Wildlife Research 48(1): 013007.
2018. Badji, L., Ndiaye, P.I., Lindshield, S.M., Ba, C.T. & Pruetz, J. Savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) nesting ecology at Bagnomba (Kedougou, Senegal). Primates 59: 235-241.
2017. Lindshield, S.M., Danielson, B., Rothman, J.R., & Pruetz, J.P. Feeding in fear: How adult male western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) adjust to predation and savanna habitat pressures. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163: 480-496.
2017. Pruetz, J.D., Boyer-Ontl, K., Cleaveland, E., Lindshield, S.M., Marshack, J., & Wessling, E. Within-group lethal aggression in West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): Inferred killing of a former alpha male at Fongoli, Senegal. International Journal of Primatology 38: 51-57.
2017. Lindshield, S.M. Behavioral flexibility. In: A. Fuentes (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley-Blackwell.
2017. Lindshield, S.M. Behavioral repertoire. In: A. Fuentes (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley-Blackwell.
2016. Lindshield, S.M. Protecting nonhuman primates in peri-urban environments: A case study of Neotropical monkeys, corridor ecology, and coastal economy in the Caribe Sur of Costa Rica.” In: M. Waller (Ed.), Ethnoprimatology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century (pp. 351-369). Springer.
2015. Pruetz, J.D., Boyer-Ontl, K., Lindshield, S.M., Shelley, M., Wessling, E., & Bertolani, P. New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Senegal. Royal Society Open Science 2:140507.
2012. Pruetz, J.D., Ballahira, R., Camara, W., Lindshield, S.M., Marshack, J.L., Olson, A., Sahdiako, M., & Villalobos-Flores, U. Update on the Assirik chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) population in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Pan Africa News 19(1).
2012. Pruetz, J.D., Lindshield, S.M. Plant food and tool transfer in savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal. Primates 53:133-145.
2009. Lindshield, S.M., Rodrigues, M.A. Tool use in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Primates 50: 269-272.