Presenting our research on gelada flexible communication and emotion recognition during post-conflict interactions at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata (India)! 🐒 @geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Latest research from our project! 🐒🐕

It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi: unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...

We are also working on zoo-housed groups of geladas, check out this new paper :)

Talking about our latest research on The Conversation! 🐒

Check out this video on our new research! 🔊🐒 @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

It’s finally out!! Our new study shows that wild geladas seem to recognize prosocial vocal affiliation to victims of aggression! A key insight into the evolution of empathy in primates 🔊🐒 @geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Life on the field 🐒

With great joy and surprise, we received more donations, and we wasted no time! Today, we could donate school supplies to the 76 students of Godo Elem. School, where many of our friends and "field assistants" study. A perfect way to end an unforgettable year in Ethiopia❤️

A thoughtful gelada under the wind of the Ethiopian highland Pic by @bettapalagi

Just the time to arrive in Ethiopia and tomorrow our project PI @bettapalagi will give a seminar at the Addis Ababa University about primate sociality 🐒 @Dip_Bio_Unipi @TheLeakeyFndtn

It might look like I’m posing but I’m actually desperate trying to identify the too many geladas in front of me 😅 @geladas_bridges #fieldlife

We finally delivered the first part of the materials for the schools of Debre Libanos purchased thanks to the donations of many of you 📚It was a day filled with joy and strong emotions. Your generosity and trust mean a lot to us! For more info and pics, see our Ig/Fb pages

We are back on the field🐒 already facing the many challenges of field life! But as geladas do… we also quickly adapt! @TheLeakeyFndtn @Dip_Bio_Unipi @EthosLabo

🚨 Presenting our new publicationon @IntJPrimatology at the conference of the Italian Society for Zoology (UZI) in Pisa! 🐒 @TheLeakeyFndtn geladas and baboons interspecies interactions! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A congress with (also) gelada gadgets, that’s what we like 😎 Italian Society of Zoology, 83rd conference, University of Pisa (designed by Fosca Mastrandrea

Last week we presented first data from our @geladas_bridges project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour @sie_etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo @TheLeakeyFndtn

Can’t wait to be there to meet colleagues and friends and present the fiiiirst results from our project!🐒 x.com/Marco_Gamba/st…

🚨 Exciting news! The first paper from our project out in @IntJPrimatology 🐒 We report positive interspecies interactions between tolerant geladas and olive baboons in an unprotected area in Ethiopia 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼@TheLeakeyFndtn @EthosLabo Full story here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Missing life on the field while planning our next data collection! Stay tuned 🐒 #research #primatology @TheLeakeyFndtn

Thanks to all the people who came yesterday to know about our project 🐒 and who helped us with the fundraising 👫 (check previous posts to know more) We thank Equitiamo for hosting us in such a beautiful location in San Rossore (Pisa) @TheLeakeyFndtn

We have already collected almost 600€!! Huge thanks to all friends and colleagues. Please help us and ask for any info. Every penny counts! 🫶🏾 x.com/geladas_bridge…

Last week I had the great opportunity of presenting the work we are doing at the @EFP_2024 in Lausanne #EFP2024 !yawn vocalizations in geladas, facial mimicry and mutual gaze in joint play in rhesus macaques… and more 🐒

Please spread this and help us with our second fundraising for the schools of the community of Debre Libanos! The first one was successful but now we want to involve more people 🫶🏾🫶🏻 don’t hesitate to contact us here or @GalottiAlice ! Every penny helps

We are back after an amazing period of data collection in Ethiopia… now it’s time to start analyzing data! Ethiopian students who worked with us on the field will now spend a mobility period in Pisa (Italy) working with our team! 🐒Cooperation and inclusivity @TheLeakeyFndtn

🚨 New paper on rhesus macaque play fighting! 🐒 Discover how rapid facial mimicry in this despotic species is influenced by rank and linked to the emotional arousal of playmates! 🎭📊 very proud of this @bettapalagi @EthosLabo Open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Kings and queens of the Ethiopian highlands 🇪🇹 @geladas_bridges Pics by @bettapalagi

We had a day filled with surprise, joy, and gratefulness when the community organized an event to make us feel part of Debre Libanos. An incredible emotion and honor for all of us! This is why our project goes beyond the study of gelada sociality! @TheLeakeyFndtn 🐒🐒🐒

Our two PIs clearly highlight the importance of #womeninscience across countries! @bettapalagi and Bezawork Afework 🐒🐒🐒 @TheLeakeyFndtn

Finally the PI of our project @bettapalagi is on the field with us! We’ve been following our focal gelada groups since 2 months now! Thanks again to @TheLeakeyFndtn and @EAZAFund for your support! Stay tuned 🐒

Behind the scenes: our wonderful team composed by students of both Addis Ababa University and University of Pisa. The science is powerful when the efforts are shared! Stay tuned for more news from Debre Libanos, Ethiopia 🇪🇹🐒 @TheLeakeyFndtn @EAZAFund

Our data collection has started! Stay tuned 🐒 enjoy some amazing geladas in their natural environment (Debre Libanos, Ethiopia) @TheLeakeyFndtn @EAZAFund

In response to Debre Libanos community hospitality towards our project and thanks to your donations, we could help students in need from local schools (Finota Tsidk, Addis Alem, Dahana, Telladu, Ysabay). A great emotion for all of us! (pictures taken with schools consent) 🐒❤️

It’s now time to go wild! We will soon be in the field to continue our research on this amazing species🐒 nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper! 🔊🐒 Did you know that apart from humans geladas are the only (known) mammal producing specific vocalizations while yawning? Through a playback experiment we discovered their possible function @bettapalagi @EthosLabo A Lemasson @M_Francesconi nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our preliminary field visits to Debre Libanos🐒🐒🐒 x.com/PedruzziLuca/s…

Many thanks to all zoos part of @EAZAFund and geladas EEP for supporting us through BRIDGES: NaturZoo Rheine, @RotterdamZoo, @ZOOBOISSIERE, @ParcoNaturaViva, @dudleyzoo, @zoostfelicien, Stuttgart Wilhelma zoo, CERZA Conservation, Giardino Zoologico Pistoia, Parco Zoo Falconara 🐒

Our departure to Ethiopia is near and we want to start by thanking @TheLeakeyFndtn for selecting our project “Science for reconciliation: What an Ethiopian #monkey tells us about peace-making” for a Research Grant 🐒 leakeyfoundation.org/spring-2023-le…

now available open acess here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just come back from a preliminary mobility to Ethiopia for our collab. project between @Unipisa and @AddisAbabaUnive ! A lot of bureaucratic stuff… but also lots of amazing geladas in amazing landscapes! Thanks to the PI @bettapalagi and to Dr. Bezawork Afework!