Margaret Chatham Crofoot (born 1980)[1] is an American anthropologist who is a professor at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
[1] She was an undergraduate student at Stanford University where she worked alongside Robert Sapolsky and Nancy Czekala, investigating the Buceros bicornis (the great hornbill).
By attaching accelerometers to the baboons, Crofoot conducted the first detailed study of the movement and associated energetic costs of a group of wild primates.
[1] She was made a Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow[7] and serves as Director of the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies.
[8] She first visited the Institute during her graduate studies, but it was during her postdoctoral fellowship that Egbert Leigh confessed to being “madly in love” with her.