Gerald G. Carter

Gerald G. Carter studies the social behavior and cooperation of animals, especially vampire bats, focusing on how relationships like food sharing and grooming form and persist over time. His work combines field observation, social network analysis, and modeling to understand why animals help each other, including topics like reciprocity, disease spread through social contact, and even biological aging markers (DNA methylation) across species. Students in this area would likely engage in fieldwork with bats or other social animals along with quantitative analysis of behavioral and relationship data.

Publication output rose to a peak around 2020 but has generally declined since, settling into a lower and more modest annual output over the past few years.

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