BERG Stirling

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

20.11.2025 11:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

14.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

08.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

26.09.2025 06:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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?...

27.08.2025 09:59 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

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....

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

09.05.2025 20:47 — 👍 70    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 9

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

22.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🐕‍🦺 #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...

22.04.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

17.04.2025 08:56 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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...

15.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2