Life in MoyenBafing gets pretty exciting for us too! Come help us learn about these incredible chimpanzees and the wonderful MB landscape they live in! RA positions in our field team from July, apply now! 🧪

📣NEW paper📣 To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPCAMM...

#Animove26 is going to Kenya. Come and join us! Applications are now open until 31st of May 🦁🦏🐘🦛🦇🦂🦗 animove.org/next-animove...

In a decades-long study, researchers have documented what appears to be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. The findings demonstrate that shifting social ties alone can fracture a once unified group and ignite sustained, deadly conflict among former allies. https://scim.ag/47QE8Qw

New open access publication in Topoi! @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I explore the ethics of AI animal translation projects. 🖥️🐬Before we build it, we need to take stock of the ethical implications. rdcu.be/fbZwv 🧵👇1/13

Back in Europe after having the pleasure of presenting at the #Ngogo symposium at #AABA in Denver, US on communicative repair 🗣️. It was great to see everyone and hearing more about the fascinating #Ngogo chimpanzees! ✨

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Curious how to apply turn-taking across taxa? Look no further! In our preprint, we present a toolkit on how to annotate data, to then assess if a species has similar turn-taking to humans or not! @filipaabreu.bsky.social @kaylakolff.bsky.social @monkeyologist.bsky.social

Bonobos and bottlenose dolphins may seem worlds apart, but together they reveal key conditions that foster cooperation beyond group boundaries

Calling all primatologists & conservationists! 🐒 @doc-webber.bsky.social & I are looking for best practice around how we train future primatologists for a future special issue of IJP: link.springer.com/collections/... Please get in touch for an informal chat about possible contributions.

If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it! Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!

Just like humans, many animal species have distinct cultures. From communication and social learning, animal culture shapes how they live and adapt. 🦍🐒🐳 Join an #IUCN introductory webinar and learn what animal culture is and how it can support biodiversity conservation and recovery. Links below!

My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)

Wound care in chimpanzees! Like chimpanzees in Central Africa, scientists have now shown that East African chimpanzees also apply flying insects to their own and each other's wounds. This is likely some form of medication, which is more widespread than we thought. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NEW PAPER OUT 🚨 Excited to share our new study documenting the first reported case of insect-application to their own and others’ open wounds in East African chimpanzees from the Ngogo community! 🪰 👉 Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2

🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks? ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps! A 🧵

So happy to see my first PhD paper out royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With my amazing supervisor @robinmorrison.bsky.social and the @savinggorillas.bsky.social, we examined female dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas.

I love a good animal communication article. New research by @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika highlighted in @us.theconversation.com suggests turn-taking, a core feature of human language, also plays a role in how chimpanzees communicate. 🔗 tinyurl.com/atdjn6mb #langsky #linguistics TLDR 👇

Although people sometimes talk over each other, we are capable of effective turn-taking in conversation. A unique human trait? Not really, @kaylakolff.bsky.social & Simone Pika write—other animals do so, too, like chimpanzees while grooming: buff.ly/UyG2Fzm

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Are you fascinated by #plants, #plant-identification and social and cognitive skills of #chimpanzees? Then come and work with us at the #ComparativeBioCognition lab, #OsnabruckUniversity and the #OzougaChimpanzeeProject (www.ozouga.org). Check info: www.comparative-biocognition.de/communicate/...

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

🚨🐵Potential primate PhD: tinyurl.com/ym4wb2uf We're looking for candidates for a project on conservation genomics in a wild endangered primate. This is competitively funded, so experience in field work and genomics is required to have a chance of receiving the scholarship. Informal enquiries welcome

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 – My first PhD paper is out as a preprint! Need a break from everything happening in the world? Time to focus on #great #apes 🐵✨. We investigated whether wild #bonobo infants develop more slowly than #chimpanzee infants, but the answer isn’t so clear-cut!

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Potential new pangolin species: news.mongabay.com/2025/01/scie...

Javan surilis (Presbytis comata), also called grizzled leaf monkeys, Javan leaf monkeys, and Javan grizzled langurs, are endemic to western and central Java in fragmented pockets. Total remaining population may be as low as 5,500. Threatened by habitat destruction and hunting. Listed as Vulnerable.

Chimpanzees genetically adapted to local habitats, incl. savannas! ...Congratulations to all! Article here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

Oluwa Forest Reserve, home to red-capped mangabeys, chimps, and other rare species, is losing its forest to farming. news.mongabay.com/2024/11/a-ni...

⚡ Out now! Interactive repair and the foundations of language, w/ N.J. Enfield 🔒 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... 🆓 pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/... My blog: ideophone.org/interactive-...

*** SAVE THE DATE*** Neural foundations of cooperative social interactions On the 15th of December at 13:45 CET, I will defend my PhD thesis at VU Amsterdam and University of Osnabrück Ceremony Link: youtube.com/VUBeadlesOffice Thesis: research.vu.nl/en/publicati...

NEW PAPER on the tactical use of hill tops in Taï chimpanzees journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The poster for Ellen DeGeneres documentary pretty blatantly rips off the cover of Ugandan vet Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka’s book. #Primates 🧪🏺🦊