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Wishing you a fantastic New Year 2025! Here’s a piece of good news right at the start: Our study on Budongo chimpanzee self-medication was just featured in the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the most important discoveries in human evolution of 2024: smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

IPS AWARDS NOMINATIONS OPEN 🐒🚨 Know someone who has made a significant difference to primatology? We’re soliciting nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award & Outstanding Achievement Award. Deadline Feb 10th. Full deets : tinyurl.com/IPSawards Any Qs please DM!

Gabriela Curtiz, do Parque Nacional da #Gorongosa, trouxe alegria e nutrição a vários bairros da Vila da Gorongosa nesta época festiva com as celebrações do Natal e do Ano Novo. Mais detalhes - bit.ly/40oJzCE

So very proud of Megan and all the work this team is doing 👏 🙌 💙

Baboons vs. Cyclone Idai. Who came out on top? Spoiler: These primates are tougher than you think. When Cyclone Idai stormed through Gorongosa National Park, the baboons hit the high ground and bounced back in style. Read the full report at gorongosa.org/adapt-and-thri…

How can music help your romantic pursuits? By helping you choose a compatible partner and making you feel bonded! Loads of fun writing my first feature for The Observer The Observer New Review! theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

In Wild Hope: Coffee for Water, Marcos Chova—#Gorongosa Park’sreforestation and honey program manager—shows how shade-grown coffee is helping local communities restore rainforests, revive watersheds, and lift up their incomes. pbs.org/wnet/nature/co… Nature

Congratulations to Ester Lourenço on becoming a Leakey Foundation scholar! When Ester isn’t pursuing her Master’s at Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain, she’s exploring the geology of fossil sites at the southern end of the Great African Rift in Gorongosa National Park.

Record-breaking wildlife numbers, the mysteries of the rainy season, and exclusive 2025 tourism specials—discover the details in our January/February newsletter: conta.cc/4hmCF76

Mozambique: Gorongosa Park’s predator comeback #Mozambique #Moçambique #GorongosaNationalPark #Wildlife #WildLifeConservation #Predator #MozambiqueNews Gorongosa National Park clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambiqu…

Mozambique: Agroforestry initiative unites communities, restores biodiversity, sustains life as Gorongosa mountain’s forests return #Mozambique #Gorongosa #Agroforestry #Biodiversity #TropicalForest #Wildlife #Economy #Sustainability Gorongosa National Park clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambiqu…

A Dra. Mércia Ângela junta-se a Brett Horley para discutir o mundo oculto do tráfico de pangolins e a nossa luta para salvar estas criaturas tímidas e gentis. Ouça bit.ly/PangolinDay #gorongosa #gorongosapark #WorldPangolinDay2025

Follow Elias and our team as they rescue and rehabilitate the critically endangered pangolin. wildhope.tv/episode/pangol… #worldpangolinday2025 #Mocambique #Africa #pangolinprotectors

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! cell.com/iscience/fullt… 1/5

Authors: @runnerape, Prof. Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, Ellen Schulz-Kornas and @adamvanc 5/5

📢🐵🌿 Our new field study shows that Gombe chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing plant materials to make tools based on specific properties that make them ideal for the job. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Prof. Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Adam van Casteren More 👇 cell.com/iscience/fullt…

This is rewarding. I teach my students: give credit & cite the new ideas published in good journals, not just top ones & don't get credit for other's ideas. Some senior people could use that mentoring. Here, we pioneered the concept of primate cultural heritage & proposed action.

Deadline is approaching! Please apply, nominate or self nominate for the new IPS Ethis & DEI awards! Please share!

Charles Southwick Conservation Education Award nominations! Deadline May 21st! Know someone living in a primate habitat country that has made a significant contribution to formal & informal conservation education in their country? Please nominate them 1/2

New deadline for nominations is May 15th Do you know anyone working to support DEI and Ethics initiatives in primatology? Help celebrate that!! More info 👇