✨ MEET THE TEAM ✨ Hi! I'm Ellen (Ellen Soeters), one of the PhD students of the APE Group. As an aspiring biological anthropologist, I'm fascinated by the behaviour of human and non-human great apes, as well as understanding our evolutionary origins 🌍 (1/2)

Happy World Bonobo Day! ✨ Today, 14th February, we honour and celebrate our cousins, the bonobos (Pan paniscus). A short 🧵 #InternationalBonoboDay #WorldBonoboDay

Kitties and plants, how else to celebrate a birthday as a PhD student 🪴🦍🐈 Lara Zanutto 🐒 #birthdaycelebrations #piscesseason

Such a wonderful day with the fabulous Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen who gave a stellar anthropology seminar 🙌 followed by a perfect pizza party🍕 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group Ellen Soeters Zoë Goldsborough @JessieAdriaense sofia forss @DamienFarine Lucy Aplin

Chimpanzee docuseries AND Mahershala Ali as a narrator?! We are not worthy 🙌🏼

A miniature (desk) forest is an essential component of reviewing literature, right?

We are very proud of Ellen Soeters and Lara Zanutto 🐒 for successfully presenting their PhD proposals!!! 🥳🎊🤩 Huge thanks to all the wonderful committee members! Can’t wait to see all the cool research that will come out of this!!! 😀UZH Science Swiss National Science Foundation

Feeling incredibly lucky to work with this group of fabulous people Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group ❤️🦍 together with Ellen Soeters Lara Zanutto 🐒 welcoming Jake Funkhouser 🙌 UZH Science

Proud of have started this journey with Lara Zanutto 🐒 and that we are *officially* in our second year with Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group !! 💖

We had a great time hosting @KJHockings at our Evolutionary Anthropology colloquium and loved hearing all about human-chimpanzee coexistence in Guinea-Bissau Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science

🌿 Exciting news! My friend Alice Armstrong (She/Her) 🐊🏳️‍🌈🌿 just helped to launch The Conservation Equity Project, a project committed to diversifying conservation! Follow them for news on much-needed paid internship opportunities for young, black conservationists! 🌳 #StayTuned #ConservationOpportunities

It was a real treat to host Dr. Kat Almeida-Warren in our Evo Anthro Colloquium series Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group 🐵🤩 Exciting primate archaeology research @primobevolab and lovely opportunity to catch up!🍺🥘Jake Funkhouser Ellen Soeters Lara Zanutto 🐒 Ava Moser Robin Morrison

And that’s a wrap!!! 🦧🦍 Our 3.5 weeks great ape behaviour course was a super duper success with fantastic student projects! ❤️ UZH Science Such a pleasure to teach with our fantastic APE team 💪Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group 🤩 Jake Funkhouser Lara Zanutto 🐒 Ellen Soeters Ava Moser

The honour of a lifetime to present on 20 years of chimpanzee research in the Nimba Mountains to the one and only Dr Jane Goodall ❤️ Huge thanks Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz for organising this amazing event 🤩 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science University of Zurich

Wooo!! Go, Ben! 🐒🇿🇦🍅 Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre

Had a fab time culture conferencing with these lovely folks!!! (… definitely the bright side of postponed fieldwork!) 😄 Great presentations and great chats! 🥳👍Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group sheina lew-levy Lara Zanutto 🐒 Ellen Soeters Ava Moser Thanks Culture Conference!!!!

Celebrating #WomenInScience on International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ✨ Grateful to my amazing supervisor Prof Kathelijne Koops for the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research 🦍 And shout-out to my fellow PhD journey companion Ellen Soeters 💪🏼 UZH Science

I’m so incredibly lucky to get to work with this fabulous group of people!!!! 😍 (And Doggo, of course! 🐕‍🦺) Happy holidays to the APE Group! 🍕🙌🥂Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science

Such a treat to have the fabulous Liran Samuni visit and present her stellar research on chimpanzees and bonobos 🤩 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science

The APE Group has a typical bonobo/chimpanzee-like fission-fusion social structure 😄 This foraging sub-group (or ‘party’) is saying goodbye to our emigrating female Anaïs! We so enjoyed your stay with us!! Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group UZH Science Université de Toulouse