Dr Elliot Howard-Spink

Elliot (He/They) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, and a visiting researcher at Queen Mary University London. Elliot has an undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford. His doctoral research focused on the nut cracking tool-use behaviours of wild chimpanzees. Elliot's research focuses on primate cultural processes, language evolution, and how primates develop and age in the wild. 

Currently, Elliot is researching how culture influences the development of foraging behaviours in wild orangutans, using a mixture of data from the wild and computer simulation.

Elliot can be contacted at [email protected]