🚨New paper out today on bark feeding behaviors in chimpanzees and the possible medicinal value of this behavior ✨ 🐵 🌳 💊 link.springer.com/article/10.100… More info below:

Our new OA paper on proximity networks and height among Hadza men is now out. @Berbesque, Julia Lehmann,Athena Aktipis, The Leakey Foundation,Dariusz Danel,IITD, Polska Akademia Nauk. doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.2…

New Paper in Current Biology! Chimpanzees across FIVE communities take rapid turns in gesture-to-gesture exchanges resembling human conversational patterns. Language may not be a pre-requisite for fast-paced, coordinated communication in social species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨*Please Retweet*🚨We're looking for #applicants for a fully-funded #PhD on the #welfare impacts of #urbanisation on #wild #fox and #hedgehog #cognition and #health with me, Carl Soulsbury 🇺🇦 and Simon Clegg. Deadline 15th September, details below. 🦊🦔🧩🧠🏙️ #BritishCarnivoreProject

Stirling Uni Psych #Masters students in #HumanAnimalInteractions bring together their passions for #animals & research in many exciting ways. Here's one of our students in action, recording crow calls on our campus to research how #wildlife responds to humans 🐦‍⬛ #HAI BERG, Stirling Uni

Stirling Uni Psych #Masters students in #HumanAnimalInteraction have been busy with their varied work placements lately. Here's our student Sophie making the most of hands-on experience with Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Discovery & Learning education team. Congrats! - she paved her way to her new job👏🏻🎓

We're still fundraising! Want to make a donation or get involved? Follow the link to our donation page to find our how psgb.org/pages/fundrais…. Donations are fundamental to helping our society achieve its mission, including through funding key conservation initiatives!

The call for abstracts for our winter meeting is open! 🐒 🦧 This year's conference will be hosted at Bristol Zoological Society and will centre on the theme 'New Directions in Primatology'. To submit an abstract, download a form from our website: buff.ly/3TxCJqX. Deadline 4th Oct!

Check out our recent piece for The Conversation, where we elaborate on the findings from our latest #research from the #BritishCarnivoreProject on #public #attitudes towards #wild #foxes 🦊🏙️: theconversation.com/even-as-urban-… Kristy Adaway @cds_york Psychology @ HullUni University of Hull

Reminder: Our call for abstracts is now open! Submit your abstracts for our 2024 winter meeting by the 2nd October. The theme of this year's meeting is 'New Directions in Primatology'. Submit here: buff.ly/3w1LcXp

New job at Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ.! Zoology (T&R). It’s one of the best zoology places in the country. Critical mass of both staff and students. Etc. Apply! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php.en…

Job Alert! 5-year position: #PostdoctoralFellowship with expertise in #socialcognition and communication and a sincere interest in studying #ravens in their natural environment. Announced by Thomas Bugnyar. Apply by 14.10. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University… Universität Wien (c) A. Bapat

Today is the last day that we are accepting abstracts for our 2024 winter meeting!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 All info to submit an abstract, and qbout our winter meeting, can be found on our website! psgb.org/pages/14-meeti…

Congratulations to Cecilia Raymond & Jonathan Duke and who are both recipients of our Undergraduate Primatology Recognition Award! 🥇 🥇

The PSGB 2024 winter meeting will be held at: Conservation Education Centre, Guthrie Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3EZ. Look for the green ‘Conservation Education Centre’ sign on Guthrie Road. What three words ///facing.rental.scout. For information about how to get there see 🧵

Reminder that the call is open for our special collection on Corvid Vocal Communication. Deadline 31st March. Any questions please get in touch.

Field based research assistants wanted to work on baboons in South Africa expenses paid. See below 👇 Might be of interest PSGB Students EFP-Primatology African Primatological Society IPS Primate AmSoc Primatologists Animal behavior opps animalopps.bsky.social La Société Francophone de Primatologie - SFDP @EthoGes Gesellschaft für Primatologie e.V. (GfP) ASAB

🚨Very happy to finally share the last chapter from my PhD where we show that the vocal development of wild chimpanzees is enhanced by both greater social and vocal exposure: nature.com/articles/s4159… With Pawel Fedurek, G Dezecache, G Muhumuza, Cat Hobaiter, Comparative Cognition Neuchatel, & J Call

It’s been years in the making, but it’s finally out now! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper is out!🐒🔊 Studying two wild chimpanzee populations, we found they flexibly adjust pant hoot acoustics to context (feed vs. travel). Most patterns are shared, but some community differences may suggest a small role for vocal usage learning. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…