Bas van Boekholt
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New Paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! 🎉 Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. See the thread below for a quick explanation, and check out the paper:
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Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sequence organization is a fundamental feature of human communication, shaping our interactions. This organization underlies interactions with and without language, appears early in human development ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.2271
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Mélissa Berthet
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🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with
@geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social
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@maelmleroux.bsky.social
, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy
The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers con...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70131
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Amazing work of my colleague Jolinde for wrangling all the data and making some stunning figures in the process! + interesting results as well!
add a skeleton here at some point
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New Paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! 🎉 Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. See the thread below for a quick explanation, and check out the paper:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Sequence organization is a fundamental feature of human communication, shaping our interactions. This organization underlies interactions with and without language, appears early in human development ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.2271
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Bas van Boekholt
Mélissa Berthet
12 months ago
🚨New in
@science.org
🚨 With Simon Townsend (
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ScienceResearch
#AnimalCommunication
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Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv1170
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Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group, EFP
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And... We are up and running! We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group of the EFP! 🥳 We aim to discuss and implement short-, medium- and long-term actions to mediate EDI issues in primatology. If you want to join, email us at edi4efp(at)gmail.com!
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