The importance of mushrooms to Issa's primates! theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...

Hongera @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke and the entire team. Read about the importance of branch parameters and chimpanzee locomotion at Issa here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!

Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!

Join for a fantastic opportunity to learn about the newest research in the world of zoology, meet fellow researchers and professionals, and attend unique events and workshops in a fabulous city! See more here: www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...

A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes! Join us at UCL Anthropology! www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.

GMERC Project manager Judi Mbayuwayu at the training for the Primate WATCH program-East Africa in Uganda (ARRC task force)- www.arrctaskforce.org/general-1

New paper alert! - number 2 Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning. Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how. Hint: it has to do with female solidarity. Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42... www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...

Do chimpanzees use the onset of rains as indicators of termite fishing season? At Issa they do! Team Phillips, Oelze et al. strike again! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hongera sana, Ivorda Mhakilicha! Cattle-primate spatiotemporal overlap @ Issa from camera trap footage...https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/aop/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057.xml

🐵 Paid primate internship 🐵 We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer! Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk

Hongera sana to @Ruth Bowers-Sword for successfully defending her PhD on the use of passive acoustic monitoring to study chimpanzees. Doctorhood is upon you!!!

Does the microbiome reflect diet, ecology and lifestyle in African Hominidae? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bird scavenging (or hunting?!) - add it to the diet list! Great capture, @R. Drummond-Clarke!. Extra points for anyone who can identify the bird species!

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

📣🐵 🌿 Our study shows that Gombe chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing plant materials to make tools based on specific properties that make them ideal for the job. @runnerape.bsky.social, Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, @ellenschulzk.bsky.social, @adamvanc.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Salt lickin' good!

Follow up the recent paper: theconversation.com/chimpanzee-g...

Chimpanzees as indicators of mammalian abundance...PanAf metadataset strikes again! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Jane Lukumay - the 2025 GMERC Primatologist Intern - with an enormous Termitomyces sample :) (photo: Noah Siegel)

First camera trap capture of infant carrying...and now meat carrying! Well spotted, @Vikram Malhi!

Noah Siegel @ Issa helping identify some of the mysterious mushrooms being consumed by our primate community!

🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025. Unexpected findings: Many mammals defy traditional day-night activity labels phys.org/news/2025-02...

"We present MacaqueNet, a global community of researchers who developed the first database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This database facilitates comparative research into the eco-evolutionary drivers of animal behaviour" @DeMoorDelphine🌏

2-year postdoc in Tübingen on the communicative plasticity in wild & captive bonobos, fully funded by @VolkswagenSt. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Last chance to submit an abstract to #Behaviour2025 ! Deadline Feb 15

🌿 Join the @mbchimp.bsky.social ! 🐵 Seeking a part-time Data Assistant in Göttingen, Germany. Ideal candidates have experience in GIS and R, and will work with camera trap and spatial data. Dive into chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Guinea's PNMB. #Conservation #DataScience

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7l... Fabulous work

Infant carrying we've seen, but infant dragging? Fab find, @wildmolecules.bsky.social !!!

New data show Western vs. Eastern chimpanzees have no consistent differences in endocranial volume or body size, suggesting ~700k years of stasis. Palate length was shorter in Western females, but overall brain size remains unchanged. - Wrangham and Worthington (AJBA):

In another life, I want to be a bushbaby....a bouncy one.

Chimpanzees genetically adapted to local habitats, incl. savannas! ...Congratulations to all! Article here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper by team Oelze et al.! on the diverse role of strontium isotopes....https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/01/pan-african-strontium-isoscape.html

Justas_Mikulenas & Caitlin_Green from @uclofficial.bsky.social Msc in Biodiversity and Global Change present their work @ PSGB Bristol in Dec 2024. Hongerini!

Ah, the benefits of archival footage. Make that FOUR Issa primate species that exploit the local mushroom diversity!

We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025. 🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist? 🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands? 🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions? For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...

We know water is wet, but do chimps care about it? If you ever wondered about that, come along tomorrow morning to my #BES2024 talk to find out the answer!

Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:

"If I just stay vewy vewy still, that wittle wed light will stop following me". Bipedality in our most distant relative, Otolemur crassicaudatus!

Field teams deploy camera traps and head to transects through previous chimpanzee habitat as part of ongoing survey and monitoring work to assess chimpanzee corridor habitat in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. Partnering with @TAWIRI and with support from @arcusapes.bsky.social and @FZS

Mushroom season in full effect!

Now this is a fabulous job: pathway to independence fellowship in Ecology and Conservation at Cambridge University. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/c...

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Arboreal camera trapping success @ Issa by @juju_janisch, @AdamvanC, & @tracykivell.bsky.social Safi sana!

Two fully funded, primate-focused PhD studentships up for grabs at @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/nhfkfh7x tinyurl.com/mrywvnhx