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Social play is not only fun but also has important social functions in #chimpanzee societies, promoting bonding & collective cooperation! Current Biology It is also a behavior that is really a pleasure to document Access it here authors.elsevier.com/a/1k8Me3QW8S6G…

Time for the winter field season! But first, a big thank you to my summer team Rossy Wippell and Martin Nicourt Sylvain_RT_Lemoine CambridgeBioAnth Cambridge Archaeology

👏 We are delighted to hear that there are two Cambridge Archaeology nominations in this year’s Current Archaeology Awards! 🗳️ Voting is open to the public until 10 February! archaeology.co.uk/vote 1/2

When faced with ambiguous news, how do individuals decide whether to seek more information? Confidence in one's judgment about news veracity determines the willingness to search extra information, revealing gaps in metacognitive abilities. rdcu.be/d39np

So proud to see the hard work of Riana Minocher come out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Nuanced analysis of 20 years of longitudinal data in a large rural community shows little evidence that non-nuclear family structures lead to reduced growth, education, or survival outcomes.

New paper on chimp drumming 🥁 led by the awesome Wytse Wilhelm and supervised by the one and only Cat Hobaiter is out! We show that eastern chimps like to choose the roots they drum on🥁 🎶🐒! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Join us for a free and public Webinar on Thursday, Jan 2 at 8:30 pm EST. 🐒 Dr. Sam Shanee (Programs Director, Neotropical Primate Conservation) will be joining us to speak about the primate pet trade from the field. 🔗 The Zoom link will be the same as the last meeting!

Back in the field after some time, and I was reminded how high tensions can be during mating season. This adult male was trapped at the top of a tree, with 4-5 males waiting for him to come down…. Luckily, he narrowly escaped! #primates #barbarymacaques #gibraltar

It’s not often that you’re able to get a shot of a macaque and a peregrine falcon in the same frame! Gib Nature Reserve #fieldwork #barbarymacaque #macaque #gibraltar #birding

Join me online this wednesday for a webinar about my research on the macaques! 🐵

✨Chimpanzee play and the evolutionary roots of cooperation✨ Dispatch Current Biology commenting on the fabulous paper by Liran Samuni and colleageus Taï Chimpanzee Project link: cell.com/current-biolog…

Thank you to University_Gibraltar for giving me the opportunity to feature as part of their public lecture series. If anyone missed it and would like to watch, just PM me 😁🐵

New paper alert 📢📢📢 Study from Taï Chimpanzee Project shows cultural use of some gestures to solicit copulations and loss of one signal due to human activity. Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Dialects in #chimpanzees. Human influence has led to cultural loss & calls for #conservation strategies to include preserving cultural distinctiveness. New study in Current Biology by MPI-EVA Leipzig, Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod & Taï Chimpanzee Project. tinyurl.com/a7bhudk7 & doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Primates shed light on the origins of human stone #tools. Study in PNASNews by Dr Tomos Proffitt, Lydia Luncz & colleagues uncovers surprising connections between modern primate tool use & the earliest human stone tool #technologies. tinyurl.com/2ez3bbuj & pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Breaking the 'us versus them' paradigm. Economic need and past actions affect whether there is #cooperation or antagonism between groups. Recent study by Cody Ross & Anne Pisor in Evolutionary Human Sciences. MPI-EVA Leipzig Penn State Anthropology tinyurl.com/p8m54ek3 & doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative

Today at 1pm UK time the Gibraltar Macaques Project Gibraltar Macaques Project will be featured in the Journal Club of the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology from the University of Portsmouth! Cambridge Archaeology CambridgeBioAnth

New paper alert 📢 from the Taï Chimpanzee Project Chimpanzees combine calls to alter meaning in different ways. #chimpanzees expand messaging by creating new meanings, modifying meanings or adding meanings together. Thanks to a great team for all the hard work. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

TLDR: new paper headed up by Vesta Eleuteri 🐘 & with an awesome team, incl @AndreaRavignani , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16