And ...that's a wrap! Graduated from Texas State University @txst.edu over the weekend with a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology (Primatology) 🧑‍🎓 Thank you for your mentorship Dr. Jill D. Pruetz @jilldpruetz.bsky.social and encouragements from my lab siblings in The Pruetz Lab.

New paper out on Fongoli chimpanzee diet in a savanna landscape! Pant hoots! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In Fongoli news, there have been a couple of big rains - enough to clean out & fill Sakoto pool, one of the chimps’ favorite soaking spots!

Cat Hobaiter joins us this week to discuss CHIMP DRUMMING www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbE0... @nakedprimate.bsky.social

We still have room for you in the course!

Still have spots open y’all!

Looking for an awesome field experience this summer?

That’s because the dominant scientific paradigm has particular cultural worldviews and assumptions embedded in it. Enlightenment philosophy—derived from a European Greco-Christian worldviews—held that animals were created different and inferior to humans, and that informed behaviorist paradigms.

#AABA2025 is off to a great start!!!! Shoutout to @jilldpruetz.bsky.social for renting an airbnb boat for us to sleep in. I woke up to the sound of gulls this morning, which is way more serene than waking up to howler monkeys 😜 10/10 would recommend 😅🏴‍☠️🌊🛥️

Thanks!!!

@jilldpruetz.bsky.social 's book finally arrived!! 🎉 I've been looking forward to this for months now!

Our fundraising online auction closes in less than an hour! Pant hoots! new.biddingowl.com/Funds4Fongol...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Treat yourself on Valentine’s Day! new.biddingowl.com/item/name-a-...

Two more days left in our online auction fundraiser for Neighbor Ape and we are STILL adding new items daily! new.biddingowl.com/Funds4Fongol...

Well said.

We’ve got 18 items to bid on currently and will be adding more! Shop for a good cause! new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...

Woo-hoo! This is how I got to name the newest little Fongoli chimp, Elphaba! You can bid for an opportunity to name a new baby too! #primates 🏺🧪

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to the Pruetz Lab! 💪👩 #TXST @jilldpruetz.bsky.social @txst.edu

It’s time for our annual fundraiser to benefit chimp conservation & human welfare in the Fongoli, Senegal region - pant hoots! new.biddingowl.com/Funds4Fongol...

I have named this teensy little chimp baby! Meet Elphaba, daughter of mama Eva, of Fongoli, Senegal!📷 : Michel Sadiakhou, from @jilldpruetz.bsky.social

Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck. This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever. AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH.

New paper! 🐒 🧪 We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

The National Science Foundation canceled all of its grant review panels this week. www.npr.org/sections/sho... 8/12

Updating Chimpanzee Nesting Data at Mount Assirik (Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal): Implications for Conservation 🧪 Yaya Hamady Ndiaye, Jill Pruetz @jilldpruetz.bsky.social et al www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14... Finds preservation of nesting sites of chimpanzees crucial for conservation

"I could never have prepared myself for this animal that was so human in some respects but so different as well. I was astounded." Join Talking Apes for a journey to the heart of the savanna & explore the world of chimps 🏺🧪 with Dr. Jill Pruetz @jilldpruetz.bsky.social talkingapes.org/posts/jill/

Roads and Woody Vegetation Structure Are Associated With Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Occurrence at Its Northern Range Limit 🏺🧪 Stacy Lindshield, @jilldpruetz.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Of all predictors, roads had the highest impact on chimpanzee occupancy.

Word has just reached me from @uchicagopress.bsky.social that @jilldpruetz.bsky.social has a new book - "Apes on the Edge; Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna" - being published later this very month. #Booksky press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Mother Chimp and Daughter Share a Special Sign www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/s...

Y’all! My new book is out on January 25! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Back in Senegal - pant hoots!

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

We may not agree about politics or religion,,, but we can all agree that we want Mike Tyson to knock out Jake Paul

These gals. Also, does Edith need an account here too?

Did he just appoint an anti-vaccer as head of HHS?!

Is @stephenking.bsky.social here?

I forgot I was here already!!

Hi y’all! Happy to be here - hope y’all love chimps, dogs, cows and horses! ;)