Meet the newest addition to the Nimba Chimpanzee Project team: Indri ❤️🐕 Small but mighty!!! 🌟 @ApeBehaviour&EcologyGroup

Enjoying the 30th International Primatological Society (IPS) conference in Antananarivo!! 🥳 The Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group united in Madagascar!! 🤩

I'd apply in a heartbeat if I could. Most creative (!) project proposal I've ever read, brilliant fieldwork opportunities, and the BEST supervising team you could wish for! Apply, apply, apply!

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

The APE Group has a typical bonobo/chimpanzee-like fission-fusion social structure 😄 This foraging sub-group (or ‘party’) is saying goodbye to our emigrating female Anaïs! We so enjoyed your stay with us!!

It’s a Nimba baby boom!!! 🥰 Check out all these cute additions to (one of) our study groups in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea 🇬🇳 @NimbaChimpanzeeProject

Tune into this awesome new chimp drumming study!!! 🧵 🥁 Featuring the fabulous Nimba chimps!

Magical last day in Nimba 💚 I got to spend the afternoon with Kaija (named after my daughter of similar age!). 😍

My 💚 Nimba

Back with my Nimba family ❤️💛💚

The two-day drive from Conakry to Nimba 💪

Adventure calls!!! ❤️💛💚 Off to Guinea for the next month to catch up with everyone at the Nimba Chimpanzee Project! Can’t wait!!! Fingers crossed for my >80 kg of luggage to arrive!!! 🤞😅

Great work 👌@taichimpproject.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

✨Chimpanzee play and the evolutionary roots of cooperation✨ Dispatch @currentbiology.bsky.social commenting on the fabulous paper by @lirsamuni.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hoots & drums!!!! 💫

And that’s a wrap! 🤩 How I love teaching our Great Ape Behaviour course! 😍 It was an absolute pleasure working with this fabulous group of students. 🦍 Huge thanks to Zurich Zoo for hosting us! 🦧 We much enjoyed the talks by the ape head keeper and the curator 🙏

Fabulous new paper!!! 🤩

It’s the Great Ape Behaviour Course time of year! 🤩 Excited to see all the fantastic student projects come to life! ❤️ Topics range from 🦧 orangutan mother-offspring relationships to 🦍 gorilla rearing history📊🤓💪

The honour of a lifetime to present on 20 years of chimpanzee research in the Nimba Mountains to the one and only Dr Jane Goodall ❤️ My daughter’s chimp also made an appearance! Huge thanks to the Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz for organising this amazing event 🤩

Love my job!!! ❤️ Teaching our great ape behaviour course with a little help from our ape friends!!! 🦍🦧 Thanks for hosting us again Zoo Zurich!!! 🙏 Can’t wait to see all the wonderful student projects coming to life in the coming weeks 😃

I have arrived in the other place!!! Where’s everybody?!? 😃😃😃