Research areas
Dr Ben Walton is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow, working on the National Geographic Society's Living Pathways Program with Professor Christian Rutz, an ambitious new global initiative, combining community building, wildlife tracking technology, local empowerment, education, and storytelling to increase human-wildlife coexistence in the world's unprotected landscapes.
Ben has broad interests in animal behaviour and widlife conservation, in particular using cutting-edge biologging technologies to understand animal responses to human activities and increase human-wildlife coexistence.
Ben also co-leads the Move Bon Connectivity Working Group, an international collaboration to transform movement insights into actionable evidence that supports international conservation policy and planning for habitat connectivity.
Selected publications
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Open access
On-primate cameras reveal undocumented foraging behaviour and interspecies interactions in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Aug 2024, In: International Journal of Primatology. 45, 4, p. 882-886 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Camera traps and guard observations as an alternative to researcher observation for studying anthropogenic foraging
Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Apr 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 4, p. 1-9 9 p., e8808.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Insights into short- and long-term crop-foraging strategies in a chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) from GPS and accelerometer data
Walton, B. J., Findlay, L. J. & Hill, R. A., Jan 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 2, p. 990-1001 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heterospecific recognition of referential alarm calls in two species of lemur
Walton, B. & Kershenbaum, A., 2 Nov 2019, In: Bioacoustics. 28, 6, p. 592-603 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review