New paper out on between group cooperation ... 😲 those bonobos. Great contribution to our understanding of the evolution of cooperation by Liran Samuni and Martin Surbek from Kokolopori Bonobo Research
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Feeling extremely privileged that I get to spend my days in the forest with these amazing creatures. #bonobo cooperation between groups is neither random nor rare and brings us one step closer to understanding our own evolutionary past

New paper out! Wild chimpanzees make tactical use of high ground to detect hostile neighbouring groups. PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… warfare tactics of high elevation usage are much deeply rooted than previously thought. CambridgeBioAnth Cambridge Archaeology Cambridge University

NEW paper published in PLoS Biology on the extraordinary behaviour of the Taï chimpanzees: tactical use of elevation in outgroup context. Taï Chimpanzee Project with Sylvain_RT_Lemoine and Liran Samuni journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Together with Chirag Chittar, Liran Samuni, Jerome Lewis, Henkjan Honing, Emiel van Loon, Karline Janmaat, we found:

During foraging trips, BaYaka women are more likely to sing 1) in larger groups with less familiar members, and 2) when they are carrying infants.

Our latest theory paper thinking about group size and structure in animal societies using insider-outsider conflict theory. Sheng-Feng Shen sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super happy to share our latest preprint on #cooperation .

We found that heterophily in non-social #personality traits and #friendship foster #cooperation . Thanks to all the co-authors. Thank you MarieSkłodowskaCurie for funding. Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Biomedical Primate Research Centre Animal Behaviour & Cognition (UU)

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Only four days left to apply (deadline 24th)! We are looking for a lecturer with a focus on socio-ecology, group dynamics, social categorisation, cooperation, altruism, competition, aggression, or violence. Lincoln Psychology jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Per the request of some of my African National Geographic Society colleagues, I've created a living document of fellowships, scholarships, & grants for which African nationals are eligible. Please add to this document and share widely. tinyurl.com/AfricanFellows…

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New paper out elifesciences.org/articles/86635 on adolescent growth spurts in bonobos and other primates, which a) rejects the idea of human uniqueness on that and b) shows the crucial importance of scaling laws KLIVV Vienna Domestication Lab Vienna Jeroen_MG_Stevens Comparative BioCognition Osnabrück Primatenzentrum DPZ MPI-EVA Leipzig

Join us! We have two fully funded PhD positions available in my WWTF VRG Group Universität Wien investigating the ontogeny and individual variation in extractive foraging. All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… and jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific…
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We describe a simple scalable approach for describing animal communities in Current Biology: animals leave behind their DNA on leaves and it is possible to collect the 🧬 from many animals that live in a tropical rainforest simply by swabbing 🌿🌿🌿 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… 🧵1/7

Two more weeks to apply! A fully funded 2 year postdoc on the evolution of fleshy fruits at iDiv Biodiversity Research

New manuscript showing that greater social interactional diversity has propelled American Innovation for much of our history (1850-1940). Max (Winkler) Posch Jonathan Schulz papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New paper by our Simone Anzà Primatenzentrum DPZ Uni Göttingen on how early adversity is associated with altered bacterial gut microbiome in wild macaques into adulthood. Wonderful collaboration with M Heistermann & Göttingen Genomics Lab @DFG_public 🐒Sociality&Health tinyurl.com/2c26r82c

NSF-funded postdoc job in my lab at Harvard Department of Human Evolutionary Biology: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12577 Interdisciplinary project involving comparative MRI in humans, apes, & canids to study the evolution of aggression. Join us - we are a fun team doing cool science! 😎🧠🐵🦊

An Issa male chimpanzee snatches a recently killed bushbaby from the female who caught it. She would get it back later, but not until he had his share of the spoils. Not exactly the Fongoli 'sharing' model, eh ⁦The Pruetz Lab⁩ ? (video by N. Mwanri/GMERC)

Kunz et al. (2023) Am J Primatol
長期データに基づくオランウータンのオスの繁殖戦術。Fig 2見る限り、フランジオスとアンフランジオスって、言われてるほど違う戦術使うわけじゃないんかな～と思ったり。強制交尾率も個体差大きいし

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Big study out today, lead by Mina Ogino, shows that environmental factors have a strong impact on social network structure. However, populations remain consistently different even after controlling for these, suggesting group-level 'social cultures'.

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