Taï Chimpanzee Project

Today, Inza Kone, DG of the Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique en CI, and DU of the new International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures, received the Ivorian National Prize of Excellence in Research. Congratulations to our collaborator and friend.

Bielefeld University is a great start to a successful career ... Go for it

Great days at the #IPSMadagascar2025 with @sanchezmegias.bsky.social and Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, presenting our research @ub.edu @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social

Always a pleasure to come to this conference and interact with primatologists from all over the Word!
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Dolphins learn to wear sponges ‘like a clown nose’ to hunt fish Some dolphins in Australia learn to wear a sponge on their beak – which allows them to safely forage through rocky seabeds

#RSOS in @the-independent.com | Cultural transmission of animal tool use driven by trade-offs: insights from sponge-using dolphins: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If you like to hear about lots of cool research on our closest living relatives and exchange with a diverse group of researchers on all sorts of topics from behavioral ecology and conservation over genetics and endocrinology to cognition and evolution, then come next year to Montpellier in June/July

In September @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social will inaugurate the International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (ChiMP4IC) in Abidjan in memory of the late Christophe Boesch and to support our work at @taichimpproject.bsky.social
Happy #WorldChimpanzeeDay

In 1979 the late Christophe Boesch founded the @taichimpproject.bsky.social and allowed us to start to understand Western chimpanzees, a subspecies critically endangered according to the #IUCN red list. He inspired countless people to protect chimpanzees in the wild. Happy #WildChimpanzeeDay.

Today is #WorldChimpanzeeDay! We celebrate the work of the late Dr. Christophe Boesch, whose research in West Africa revolutionized how we understand & protect chimpanzees.

His approach to conservation empowered local communities & created impactful changes for these remarkable primates.

Monday is #WorldChimpanzeeDay.

Our closest relatives in the animal kingdom play a vital role in keeping forests alive.

But habitat loss and trafficking are pushing these great apes closer to extinction.

Protecting chimpanzees means protecting biodiversity and a part of ourselves.

Today is #WorldChimpanzeeDay 🐒🌍, a day to highlight our closest genetic relatives and their rich cultural tapestry!

A landmark conservation instrument adopted at #CMSCOP14 urges conservation efforts to focus on preserving chimpanzee behavioral diversity and culture: www.cms.int/sites/defaul...

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Host-specific broomrapes: the role of strigolactone cocktails

How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones
. youtu.be/mUp9n_RW2eg?...

Look out for the epic story of Homo sapiens ...

Human Follow the epic story of Homo sapiens as they outlast other human species and spread across the globe.

Premieres On September 18, 2025 1AM on PBS: Human. Follow the epic story of Homo sapiens as they outlast other human species and spread across the globe www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

Great work done by @elerolland.bsky.social at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social
Looking forward to follow ups

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Albedo and its environmental consequences

Here comes the sun ...
youtube.com/watch?v=6MUX...

Including @tozbu.bsky.social

Chimpanzés sauvages : des liens familiaux sans troubles graves de l’attachement Dans une étude publiée dans Nature Human Behaviour des scientifiques ont id

Wild #chimpanzees show attachment patterns similar to human children excluding its disorganized form ... Check out the paper by @elerolland.bsky.social @oscarnl.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social @romanwittig.bsky.social and other researchers from TCP.

www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Follow the money and think critically, said Pierre-Henri Gouyon during the 60 year anniversary symposium at Branféré, when he explained how the tobacco industry has manipulated public opinion through social engineering, a practice taken over by the pharma industry to plant doubt into the public.

To end this 🧵, a video to illustrate how an evening swim at La Réserve de Nice, in the warm, clear waters of the Mediterranean, filled with a diverse array of beautiful fish & other marine life, was the perfect way to end days at #UNOC3 discussing how to save the world's coastal ecosystems. 14/14

#Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaiour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans - Nature Neuroscience Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidit...

Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits.

@takamitsuw.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This book = The best gift for new parents (and grand parents 🙂). Everything you want to know about baby cries 👶.
Scientifically based. Easy to read.
#parents #baby #parenting #bioacoustics #mother #father #family

www.amazon.fr/intimate-wor...

This brain implant lets a man who lost his speech to ALS produce natural-sounding sentences instantaneously.

Learn more: scim.ag/4mXXLvN

A blueprint for the batmobile.

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

🎉Very excited to present our new study, in collaboration with @emmasmcewen.bsky.social and Josep Call, on co-representation and communication during coordination in chimpanzees! Make sure to check out the thread for details on our findings and discussion 🤓

Dream PhD opportunity, doing important and pioneering work on how humans and other animals solve problems that require them to work together to sustain resources (like the planet!)!

Creative, brilliant, and supportive mentor!

PhD position in France at @univ-amu.fr about #ecosystem #modelling applied to human #evolution :
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶