Sarah Turner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Calgary, and was an FRQNT postdoctoral fellow at McGill. Her research interests include primate behavioural ecology, disability, influence of anthropogenic change on animals behaviour, and climate change. Her research focuses on the behaviour of free-ranging Japanese monkeys with physical impairments at the Awajishima Monkey Center in Japan.