Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play?
To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others!
"Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
31.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!
14.07.2025 11:59 — 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Indris (Indri indri) are endemic to Madagascar's eastern rainforests. Populations in the north are black, those in the south are black-and-white, those in between exhibit both color patterns. Threatened by habitat loss, forest fragmentation, and illegal hunting. Listed as Critically Endangered.
31.05.2025 11:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Join our Research Community — Wild Animal Initiative
Become a member of our community if you would like to engage researchers and practitioners around the world interested in understanding and improving the lives of animals in the wild.
Our research community is a network of wild animal welfare researchers and practitioners. As a member, you'll have access to our listserv, opportunities board, member directory, events calendar, and more. Membership is free! Join here: www.wildanimalinitiative.org/join
12.05.2025 15:47 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our second round of microgrant applications will open on May 26th..
🥁New #ABCMicrogrants Funding Round!!🥁
More details to follow 🐝🐝🐝
Help us spread the word 🐝🐝🐝
13.05.2025 20:19 — 👍 17 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an #instructor interested in illustrating #phylogenetic comparative methods for psychology students studying #animal #cognition? Check out this classroom activity (with slides and reading) using a simple example to illustrate core concepts!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
26.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
More classroom activities! Are you an #instructor interested in teaching about principles of #evolution and #naturalselection? Check out this brainstorming activity about the processes of evolution, using #domestication as an example!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
24.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an #instructor interested in using #interactive activities to demonstrate principles for the evolution of #cooperation? Check out this classroom activity focused on strategies in the prisoner's dilemma, for high school or university students!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
21.03.2025 16:35 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Cat Ba langurs (Trachypithecus poliocephalus ), also called golden-headed langurs, are one of the world’s most endangered primates with a population of about 80. Poached to near extinction for meat and body parts. Threatened by disturbances from the booming tourism industry. Critically Endangered.
12.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Interested in learning more about data exploration and linear modeling in R?
This set of #datascience modules from @csulbquanteco.bsky.social uses real cognitive and demographic data from the #CayoSantiago #rhesus macaque population in #PuertoRico!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
20.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Primate Learning
Juvenile monkeys diving on Cayo Santiago
Did you know #monkeys like to #play in #water?
Check out this set of multimedia from contributor Alyssa Arre's research on “Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques”!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYYU...
16.02.2025 18:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How DNA extracted from forest air could help protect one of West Africa's rarest animals
Exciting to be able to share our ongoing work using novel eDNA techniques to detect the western chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
@derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social @joanachimpa.bsky.social
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
12.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Original post on fediscience.org
Call for Applications 2025: Lise Meitner #Research Groups
https://www.mpg.de/lise-meitner-excellence-program
Programme by the @maxplanckgesellschaft designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female #scientists
deadline April 08th, 2025.
note that you should contact […]
12.02.2025 18:50 — 👍 4 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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The Royal Society's Industry Fellowships are now open for applications. This scheme enables the movement of talented scientists and engineers between academia and industry. Open to researchers from all career stages, find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/indus...
12.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 0
YouTube video by Primate Learning
Kanyawara Chimpanzees in the Canopy
Check out this learning module to learn how to analyze the #diet composition of #chimpanzees @zeppypeaarl.bsky.social
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
Bonus link: footage of #wild #chimpanzees feeding in the forest canopy at #Kibale National Park, #Uganda! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fz-...
10.02.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In our latest Primate Conservationist Limelight, NEPC sits down with Kurnia Ilham, an Indonesian conservationist and a driving force behind the Long-Tailed Macaque Project, overseeing initiatives in Indonesia both on the mainland and on Simeulue Island. neprimateconservancy.org/meet-kurnia-ilham/
10.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A collage of 2025 Valentines from vintage animal illustrations:
Zebra "I'd leave my herd for you"
Kangaroo "A click's as good as a nod!"
Malayan Tapir "You can rest your head on me"
Link to https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness
Mammal Madness 2025 COMBATANT VALENTINES!
With messages of sciency love! #2025MMM
Now available for download in color or grayscale at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
10.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 83 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 2
a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
Alt: a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
Stop press!! The IPS deadline for abstracts has been extended to midnight EST on Feb 28th - so you’ve now got an extra couple of weeks to send us all your most exciting primate ideas!!!
#IPSmadagascar #IPS2025
05.02.2025 20:30 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Ankarana sportive lemurs (Lepilemur ankaranensis) are endemic to northern Madagascar's forests. Nocturnal and solitary; they forage alone by night and shelter in tree holes and vine tangles by day. Populations are declining. Threatened by habitat loss to coal mining and hunting. Endangered.
05.02.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
And of course, our recent Spanish-language #statistics modules were translated by a team including current #UMich undergrad Daniella Harris!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
03.02.2025 23:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Umich alumnus Nami Kaneko designed this educational handout about #macaque #monkeys
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03.02.2025 23:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rayna and Safa also designed this educational presentation on #leadership in #chimpanzees and #bonobos
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
03.02.2025 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
First up, UMich alumni Safa Mohamed and Rayna Shamah designed this cool set of cards for children about #animal #leadership
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
03.02.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We are taking a moment to highlight some of the amazing contributions of #UMich #undergraduates to Primate Learning in Action!
03.02.2025 23:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Analyzing Data in R 1.1 – Introduction – Primate Learning in Action
Encuentre las versiones en inglés desarrolladas originalmente por Paige Barnes, basadas en un artículo sobre la cognición de los monos de @francescadp.bsky.social aquí
Find the English versions originally developed by Paige Barnes, based on a paper on monkey cognition by Francesca De Petrillo here
02.02.2025 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Estas traducciones son fruto del trabajo duro de la estudiante universitaria Daniella Harris y las estudiantes de posgrado @ncamargo.bsky.social y Rosa Muñoz
These translations are the hard work of undergraduate Daniella Harris, and grad students Natalia Camargo Pena and Rosa Munoz
02.02.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Consulte estos módulos de aprendizaje de estadística que utilizan datos reales sobre la cognición de los primates... ¡ahora en español!
Check out these statistics learning modules using real data on primate cognition...now in Spanish!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
02.02.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Animals communicate, I listen.
Wildlife biologist studying mammal communication & cognition.
Adventure & science enthusiast | Evolutionary Anthropology PhD student studying gelada monkey sociality, stress, & disease🐒🦠🧬✨ @wildwormslab.bsky.social @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
Alum @txst.edu | she/her
Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan, director of the Social Minds Lab: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/warneken/
Animal lover; Primatologist; Associate Professor of Animal Psychology; Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Education Secretary; Primate Society of Great Britain Education Officer and Editor of Primate Eye; she/her
Research project on the social behaviour of geladas in Ethiopia (PI: Elisabetta Palagi; co-PI: Bezawork Afework). Follow our scientific and social journey!
Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
www.thepeergroup.org.uk
PEER Group research is focused on primate evolution and ecology, with a particular emphasis on vocal communication and the evolution of language.
PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand
Zooarchaeology
Amateur photographer
Doctoral candidate studying bats 🦇baboons 🐒 berries 🫐 and their bacteria 🧫 UMASS Amherst Comparative 🦍Primatology 🦧
Senior Lecturer: University of Bristol | PI: Comparative Challenge Lab | Co-Founder: ManyZoos | Finding Flow in animals | Primates | Cetaceans | 🧠🧩
PhD student at @Le_Museum 🐒 Exploring the emotion-cognition interaction in primates
Bonobos could go extinct in our lifetime. We're on a mission to stop that.
https://www.bonobos.org/donate
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PhD student at the University of Arizona in the Applied Primate Eco-omics (APE) Lab with Dr. Jacob Negrey studying the health and longevity of chimpanzees
PhD candidate studying causal perception in
dogs 🐶 and infants 👶🏼
Comparative & Developmental Psychology | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
We are a research center dedicated to promoting and advancing archaeological, paleontologica, and human evolution research in Tanzania and Eastern Africa.
Archaeology| Human Evolution|Palaeontolgy
Learn more about us on https://earcep.org
The Leakey Foundation Grantee. Plant-based material cultures in wild chimpanzees. Naturalist. Endurance runner. Childfree by choice.
Master’s graduate from the University of Poitiers, France. Interested in the development of social cognition and cultural evolution in non-human primates. Studied the link between social tolerance and exploration in macaques at @unistra.fr.
Bioanthropologist interested in osteology, paleopathology, history of anthropology, ethics, curation practices, and women in science. Feminist and setting my own path in science. She/her
Archéologue préhistorienne lithicienne africaniste spécialiste de paléocognition plus vieux outils Kenya
•MSc Animal Behaviour student at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
•BS Zoo Science 2018, USA
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