Robert Seyfarth (scientist)

Robert Seyfarth
Born (1948-02-16) February 16, 1948 (age 76)
TitleProfessor of Psychology
SpouseDorothy Cheney
Academic background
EducationHarvard College
Alma materCambridge University
Doctoral advisorRobert Hinde
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-disciplinePrimatology
InstitutionsUniversity 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.