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Back from Kokolopori Bonobo Research, having spent an amazing time with wild #bonobos, I can finally share my first first-authored paper on zoo-housed bonobos✨! Check out this great🧵by Raphaela Heesen!

Two field research fellowships through #Harvard for our BonDiv project in Congo have just opened up! Those interested in gaining valuable experience in research and conservation of bonobos should apply!🐵more info here: bondiv.org/wp-content/upl…

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New paper in Nature Communications 6 years in the making and led by the amazing @Mael_Lx Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees University of Zurich Swiss National Science Foundation ISLE NCCR Evolving Language nature.com/articles/s4146…

Syntax is a key feature distinguishing human language from other animal communication. Leroux et al. show that chimpanzees produce a compositional syntactic-like structure, suggesting syntax might be evolutionary ancient. @Mael_Lx Simon W. Townsend University of Zurich nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢: Exited to announce that we are looking for a Postdoc to join my lab MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social to work on orangutan social and individual learning & culture using already collected data!🥳🥁🎺 Apply here before May 31st: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/f20…

🚨Paid 🚨 research assistant and veterinarian positions to come work with the Taï chimpanzees!

If anyone is interested, make yourself known as soon as possible!

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY please RT🚨 Want to observe wild macaques? Then come work w/ us! We are recruiting a paid field biologist to help w/data collection on Assamese macaques in Thailand. Deadline 15 Aug. Details tinyurl.com/yjb5jsvc Primatenzentrum DPZ Uni Göttingen @LeibnizPrimate @sfb1528

I am very thankful for the opportunity to present my research on the vocal behaviour of wild bonobos towards drones at #IPSKuching

Join us on zoom to discuss issues surrounding the colonial past & present of primatology November 30th 18:00 (find link here later). Jo Setchell tinyurl.com/4htr4var will kick off with a presentation and you decide where it will go from there.

Feeling extremely privileged that I get to spend my days in the forest with these amazing creatures. #bonobo cooperation between groups is neither random nor rare and brings us one step closer to understanding our own evolutionary past

We're looking for an enthusiastic part-time data manager to join our group working with the #KokoloporiBonoboResearchProject based at Harvard University. Please help spread the word! 📣 More information and application 👉🏼 bit.ly/65607BR

Our last study with Lara Zanutto 🐒, M. Rohée, Dr. Franziska Wegdell, @Mael_Lx, M. Surbeck and Simon W. Townsend at Kokolopori Bonobo Research suggests that bonobos' vocal communication is more complex than chimpanzees'. I'll present these results at Evolang Conference on May 21 at 10:55! tinyurl.com/3k8mn3dx

"when men are socialized to identify their humanness as masculinity and to associate masculinity with power, we get some real problems. These are the problems of patriarchy." bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-be…

Very happy to share our new paper investigating compositionality in the vocal system of wild bonobos in Science Magazine led by Mélissa Berthet w/Kokolopori Bonobo Research! Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science NCCR Evolving Language science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Find me on Bluesky 🤗 Dr. Franziska Wegdell.bsky.social

New research suggests infant-directed communication expanded in humans and likely emerged after diverging from our great ape common ancestor approximately 6 to 8 million years ago. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: scim.ag/44n6oaT

Delighted to see our new paper out in Science Advances investigating the evolution of infant directed communication, led by Franziska Wegdell, Johanna Schick and Caroline Fryns UZH Science Comparative Cognition Neuchatel