Cheryl Knott

Professor, Boston University

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Research
Cheryl D. Knott
Conservation
- Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
- Save Wild Orangutans Initiative
People
News
- Upcoming Events
Diversity & Inclusion

People

Meet the Knott Lab and Field Team!

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RECENT NEWS

The Knott Lab presented a total of nine posters and presentations at the Annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) in Baltimore, MD, in Marsh 2025. Our research was well represented!
- Laura Brubaker-Wittman (PhD candidate) presented on the behavior of orangutans during the habituation process
- Dr. Faye Harwell (former PhD student) presented on sex differences in muscle mass in wild and captive orangutans
- Madison Hurysz (former undergraduate) presented a poster on a rare case of sibling adoption in orangutans
- Natalie Robinson (former undergraduate and GPOCP project coordinator) presented on GPOCP's environmental education programs
- Dr. Caitlin O'Connell (former PhD student, current GPOCP Deputy Director) presented on orangutan populations in community-managed Village Forests.
- Dr. Amy Scott (former PhD student, current Postdoc) presented a poster on the use of 25-year-old orangutan urine samples as a source of orangutan DNA
- Frank Short (PhD candidate) presented a poster on the use of passive bioacoustic monitoring to create occupancy models for 3 primate species
- Ritika Sibal (Master's student) presented on the use of computer vision to compare the terrestrial locomotion of chimpanzees and orangutans
- Sam Vee (PhD student) presented a poster on orangutan social networks

Our conservation team publish an article Assessing the impact of environmental education in a critical orangutan landscape in West Kalimantan, Indonesia in Folia Primatologica in December 2024. Congrats to former GPOCP Project Coordinator (current PhD student at Rutgers University) Natalie Robinson who is the lead author.
Cheryl Knott was named a Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences at Boston University

Amy Scott, Cheryl Knott, along with research partners co-authored a paper titled Flanged males have higher reproductive success in a completely wild orangutan population in PLOS ONE, February 2024

The February 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine, "Borneo's Wild Green Heart" features the incredible biodiversity of Gunung Palung National Park (GPNP), including the wild orangutans that Cheryl Knott has been studying since 1994

Amy Scott, Cheryl Knott, along with research partners co-authored a paper titled Mother-offspring proximity maintenance as an infanticide avoidance strategy in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) published in the American Journal of Primatology, March 2023

Andrea DiGorgio, Cheryl Knott, along with Knott lab members co-authored a paper titled Famished Frugivores or Choosy Consumers: A Generalist Frugivore (Wild Bornean Orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Leaves Available Fruit for Nonfruit Foods published in the International Journal of Primatology, December 2022

Ella Brown, Faye Harwell, Cheryl Knott along with research partners co-authored a paper titled Application of a parallel laser apparatus to measure forearms and flanges of wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) published in the American Journal of Primatology, October 2022

Lara Durgavich, Faye Harwell, and Cheryl Knott published A composite menstrual cycle of captive orangutans, with associated hormonal and behavioral variability in the American Journal of Primatology, July 2022

Cheryl Knott has been named the Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University where she was on leave for the Fall semester of 2022

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