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@berg-stirling.bsky.social
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Behaviour and Evolution Research Group at the University of Stirling
We had a nice talk last week about personality and wellbeing in captive ring-tailed lemurs. Thanks, Ashleigh!
about 13 hours ago
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Great seminar yesterday about the global threat of snare poaching led by Dylan Feldmeier. Many thanks, Dylan!
12 days ago
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We had a fantastic seminar yesterday led by
@rouratorresb.bsky.social
about early life adversity and fitness trajectories in mandrills. Thanks again, Berta!
19 days ago
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Alex Sanchez-Amaro
about 1 month ago
Glad to share our new study led by
@kirstensutherland.bsky.social
. We have investigated how chimpanzees solve common pool resources using a novel group paradigm. Find more in Kirsten's post
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Adrian Soldati
about 1 month ago
New paper out👂📢🐒! We highlight the remarkable expertise of local field assistants at BCFS (Uganda) in interpreting chimpanzee pant-hoot calls—identifying who is calling, their age, sex, and context—revealing scientific knowledge built through years of experience.
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Thanks to
@elerolland.bsky.social
for a great talk yesterday on mother–infant attachment in wild chimpanzees!
3 months ago
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We had a very interesting seminar this week by
@berthetmelissa.bsky.social
about her research on bonobo communication. Thanks again, Melissa!
3 months ago
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Many thanks again, Luke, for the great seminar today!
4 months ago
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We had a great seminar last week led by Dr Léo Perrier about his research on animal signal evolution!
5 months ago
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We had a great start to our BERG seminars this semester. Thank you very much again, Alex!
5 months ago
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EHBEA
6 months ago
Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at
@ehbea2025.bsky.social
Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠 Don’t miss it! 👇
youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...
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Christine Caldwell - EHBEA 2025
YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
https://youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?feature=shared
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Cat Hobaiter
10 months ago
TLDR: new paper headed up by
@vestaeleuteri.bsky.social
& with an awesome team, incl
@andrearavignani.bsky.social
, showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16
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Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation
Chimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees for communication. Eleuteri et al. investigate the presence of key elements of musical rhythm and of regional variation in chimpanzee buttress drumming....
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00448-8
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Clare Andrews
10 months ago
Congratulations to
@stir.ac.uk
PhD student Alice Turner for her award-winning poster on her research exploring how human land use affects beaver foraging behaviour 👏🦫
#ECRresearch
#Conservation
#HumanWildlifeCoexistence
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Clare Andrews
10 months ago
🐕🦺
#Dogs
have transitioned from working animals to beloved family members—but are laws keeping up?
#companionanimals
#HAI
Congrats to PhD student
@sarahweir1.bsky.social
from
@berg-stirling.bsky.social
on her 1st
#PhDpaper
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#ECRresearch
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@mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
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EHBEA 2026
10 months ago
What an excellent final plenary at
#EHBEA2025
!! 👩🏫 Prof Christine Caldwell shared research on
#CulturalTransmission
🧠 Adults & childre can transmit subsets of info, that perform as well as if they transmitted full info! 🗣
#CulturalEvolution
#InformationSharing
#EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
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Adrian Soldati
10 months ago
Our new paper is out! 🐒🔊 We compared two wild chimpanzee populations and found that individuals adjust pant hoot acoustics based on context (feeding vs. travelling). Most patterns are shared, but subtle community differences may hint at a small role for vocal usage learning.
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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