Cielo De La Rosa Meza

Cielo is a PhD student in the Biological Anthropology program. She received her B.A. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2020. Cielo was a member of the Primate Ecology and Molecular Anthropology lab where she investigated the foraging cognition of chimpanzees in Tanzania. In 2021 she received the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award for her thesis on termite-fishing cognition. Cielo went on to study the behavioral welfare of great apes at the Lester E. Fisher Center in Chicago. Most recently, Cielo completed a research assistantship in Northwest Costa Rica where she worked on a project studying the behavioral ecology of capuchin monkeys. Cielo works in the Applied Primate Eco-omics lab with Dr. Jacob Negrey and is interested in researching the health and ecology of chimpanzees in the wild. Specifically, she aims to explore the relationship between sociality, fitness, and aging.