
Taï Chimpanzee Project
@taichimpproject
Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979. Follow us: @taichimpproject.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Dr. Eléonore Rolland, who has successfully defended her PhD project today about "Attachment and Mothering Styles in wild chimpanzees". Newest doctor at the Taï Chimpanzee Project and the Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.




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…


This research on chimpanzee culture and conservation, conducted by researchers from CSRS Côte d'Ivoire and CNRS Biologie showcases future research at the new International Research Lab Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Cultural Integrity, Abidjan (IRL ChiMP4CI). 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.…




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…


New paer alert 📢 including data from Taï Chimpanzee Project , chimpanzees show key elements of human musical rhythm with different rhythms in Eastern and Western #chimpanzees. Paper drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Ursprünge der #Sprache. Freilebende #Schimpansen erweitern ihr Kommunikationsspektrum durch vielfältige Rufkombinationen. Neue Studie von einem Team um Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Cathy Crockford & Roman Wittig CNRS 🌍 MPI-EVA Leipzig Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod Taï Chimpanzee Project mpg.de/24672727/0506-…

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…


Press release for the new paper by Taï Chimpanzee Project on meaning alteration by combining chimpanzee calls ... Thanks to the great team for all their work. eva.mpg.de/press/news/art…

Time to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar Kaiser Lab Stay totally tuned!!! 😎


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
