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Carolin Niederbremer
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PhD student in the Cognitive Ethology lab at the German primate center. Studying mate competition in female Guinea baboons. Doing field work in the Niokolo Nationalpark in Sénégal.
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Carolin Niederbremer @caronie.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hi all!

I study the amazing Guinea baboons of Senegal. I am interested in females and their social relationships with a focus on mate competition.
I like climbing and books.

I am looking for other primate people, behavioral biologists and general science nerds.

Here is a picture of some baboons 🐒
Guinea baboons taking a nap on the forest floor in the Niokolo Nationalpark in Sénégal. In the center is a mother, holding her newborn infant in her arms. To her right lies her primary male, on her left lies another female.
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
sfb1528.bsky.social
Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
caronie.bsky.social
Happy international primate day!
We study the behavior of Guinea baboons at the fieldsite CRP Simenti in the Niokolo Nationalpark in Senegal.

Many thanks to @juditstolla.bsky.social for the lovely photo!
#InternationalPrimateDay #fieldwork #primates
Three Guinea baboons are sitting on a stone wall with green bushes in the background. The one on the left is a juvenile lifting his foot. Next to him sits a male which is eating a palmnut. He holds the palmnut with his two hands and his right foot. A second male sits across from him. A group of Guinea baboons walks through a lush green field surrounded by trees and bushes, followed by researcher Carolin Niederbremer (in the center of the photo) and two park agents (right side of the photo, covered by leaves). Photo by Judit Stolla.
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
livingingroups.bsky.social Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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samaragreenwood.bsky.social
My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now!

I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃

You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places

#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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vervetunderground.bsky.social Derek Murphy @vervetunderground.bsky.social · Apr 9
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First post AND first new paper on the butterfly app! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kv83mjMA3iZ

'Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus'
with @julxf.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social out now in #AnimalBehaviourJournal
Read🧵 for more! 1/9
A Barbary macaque walks on all fours through an outdoor wire mesh tunnel towards the camera
April 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
caronie.bsky.social
🧪 #academicsky
williamohearn.bsky.social William O'Hearn @williamohearn.bsky.social · Mar 5
BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
March 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
caronie.bsky.social
🧪 #academicsky
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
caronie.bsky.social
🧪 #academicsky
northernlimitpt.bsky.social Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · Mar 4
🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!
March 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
caronie.bsky.social
Excited to be back in Simenti for my final field season! 🐒🌴🇸🇳 #primates #fieldwork
The picture shows a big open gate with a sign above saying "Parc National du Niokolo Koba". A road is going through the gate and a person walks on the road far in the back. Next to the gate on the left side is a big tree, in the background are more trees and dry gras next to the road. On the left is a palmtree and some bushes. The middle of the picture shows the Gambia river. In the background is the other side of the river with a large Sandbank and many green trees and bushes.
January 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
caronie.bsky.social
I just found out it's world monkey day 🐒
here are some Guinea baboon pictures 💚

On the left you can see an infant enjoying her rightful place in the spotlight (because both humans AND baboons just love babies), on the right is a kid stuffing her face with food #primates #worldmonkeyday #monkeyday
A guinea baboon infant is looking into the camera with her hand under the head as if she's posing for the camera. The face and handss of the infant are pink, the fur is black. The infant is in the center of the picture, left and right of her is brown fur visible from adult individuals sitting next to her. A juvenile guinea baboon is eating a palmnut. The baboon has a black face and light brown fur. It holds the palmnut with both hands and tries stuffing it into its mouth. The palmnut is green and almost as big as the head of the baboon. The baboon's mouth is wide open and the teeth of the upper jaw are visible, one touth is missing.
December 14, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
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We’ve listed a few starter packs that we thought might be interesting to our members/researchers in animal behaviour. Feel free to add on to the thread if you have more suggestions! 🦍🦒🐐🐕🐑🐋🐍🦗

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a man wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
Alt: David from Schitts creek wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
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December 4, 2024 at 6:54 PM
caronie.bsky.social
That's me collecting data on Guinea baboons at our field site in Simenti, Senegal 🐒

#ScienceInAction
Caro stands facing away from the camera in the center of the picture. She wears white trousers, a green pullover and a black backpack. Left and right of her are Guinea baboons. Guinea baboons are brown with a black long, doglike face. The baboons are hardly visible in the dry grass. In the background are large palm trees and other bushes. Caro walks in the middle of the picture with a phone in her hands. She wears beige trousers, a green shirt, dark green Rainboots, and a black backpack. On her left are two baboons, looking for food. One is standing, the other one sits down. They are in a field, the grass is intensively green (it's fresh Grass at the start of rainy season). In the background of the picture are large dark bushes, the front is green from the gras. Just Infront of the bushes is a large male baboon on the left and a juvenile baboon on the right.
December 1, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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🧪 #academicsky
rebeccasear.bsky.social Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Nov 28
New metascience journal has launched using the publish-review-curate model: preprint is published, reviewed openly then an editor posts assessment. Will be interesting to see if this model, involving editorial oversight, is more successful than the problematic Qeios model, which involves none
The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour – a different approach is needed
Peer review is often assumed to guarantee quality, but it doesn’t always work so well in practice.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
birdsonglab.bsky.social
The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)
October 2, 2024 at 3:41 PM
caronie.bsky.social
We published a paper investigating stress hormones in wild female Guinea baboons
🧪 #academicsky #primates
fededalpesco.bsky.social Federica Dal Pesco @fededalpesco.bsky.social · Sep 10
Check out our new publication: rdcu.be/dSBfU
We found no link between dominance rank, unit size, and fGC levels in wild female Guinea baboons, shedding light on the adaptability and resilience to social stress in complex multilevel societies with female-biased dispersal
No Evidence for a Link Between Dominance Rank, Unit Size, and Faecal Glucocorticoid Levels in a Small Sample of Wild female Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)
rdcu.be
November 15, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
nakedprimate.bsky.social
🚨Late team change means we have a paid research assistant position with savanna chimpanzees in the incredible #MoyenBafing Nat Park. Deadline Nov 21, start mid-Jan; costs covered & small stipend. More details 👉 tinyurl.com/mbchimpjob It’ll be full on algae fishing fun times!!! 💚🐵🎣🧪 DM for any Qs
A chimpanzee sits by a pool with algae on a long fishing rod
November 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
uoylibrary.bsky.social
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
blogs.york.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM
caronie.bsky.social
Hi all!

I study the amazing Guinea baboons of Senegal. I am interested in females and their social relationships with a focus on mate competition.
I like climbing and books.

I am looking for other primate people, behavioral biologists and general science nerds.

Here is a picture of some baboons 🐒
Guinea baboons taking a nap on the forest floor in the Niokolo Nationalpark in Sénégal. In the center is a mother, holding her newborn infant in her arms. To her right lies her primary male, on her left lies another female.
November 13, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
blahttodea.bsky.social
I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology
go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV
November 12, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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langurlover.bsky.social
I'm still adding to this but thought I'd share my starter pack for primatology!
November 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Carolin Niederbremer
fededalpesco.bsky.social
Check out our new publication: rdcu.be/dSBfU
We found no link between dominance rank, unit size, and fGC levels in wild female Guinea baboons, shedding light on the adaptability and resilience to social stress in complex multilevel societies with female-biased dispersal
No Evidence for a Link Between Dominance Rank, Unit Size, and Faecal Glucocorticoid Levels in a Small Sample of Wild female Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)
rdcu.be
September 10, 2024 at 12:01 AM