I’m Gerry Carter, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. My work mainly focuses on social relationships, cooperation, and communication in vampire bats. More broadly, I am interested in behavioral and evolutionary ecology, social evolution, communication, and cognition.
This website started as a blog when I was a very opinionated graduate student at University of Maryland (2010-2015), and a postdoc at The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (2015-2018). It became a lab website when I started my lab group at The Ohio State University in Fall 2018. My lab moved to Princeton University in September 2024.
What I call our “lab” is more a of a group or network of researchers that work on related topics.
Carter Lab 