Robert Seyfarth | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 16, 1948 |
| Title | Professor of Psychology |
| Spouse | Dorothy Cheney |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard College |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Hinde |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Sub-discipline | Primatology |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Robert M. Seyfarth (born February 16, 1948) is an American primatologist and author. With his wife and collaborator Dorothy L. Cheney, he spent years studying the social behavior, communication, and cognition of wild primates in their natural habitat, including more than a decade of field work with baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Seyfarth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement, is a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.