We had a nice talk last week about personality and wellbeing in captive ring-tailed lemurs. Thanks, Ashleigh!

Great seminar yesterday about the global threat of snare poaching led by Dylan Feldmeier. Many thanks, Dylan!

We had a fantastic seminar yesterday led by @rouratorresb.bsky.social about early life adversity and fitness trajectories in mandrills. Thanks again, Berta!

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

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...

Thanks to @elerolland.bsky.social for a great talk yesterday on mother–infant attachment in wild chimpanzees!

We had a very interesting seminar this week by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social about her research on bonobo communication. Thanks again, Melissa!

Many thanks again, Luke, for the great seminar today!

We had a great seminar last week led by Dr Léo Perrier about his research on animal signal evolution!

We had a great start to our BERG seminars this semester. Thank you very much again, Alex!

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?...

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

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

🐕‍🦺 #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 👏 #ECRresearch 📄 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

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

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...