GMERC
@gmerc-tz.bsky.social
Tanzania-based organisation focusing on western Tanzania chimpanzee, guenon, and yellow baboon behaviour, ecology, and conservation. See more @ gmerc.org
The importance of mushrooms to Issa's primates!
theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...
theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...
Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: primate study explores who eats what and when
Mushrooms make up a crucial part of some monkeys’ diets, offering insights into the past.
theconversation.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The importance of mushrooms to Issa's primates!
theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...
theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...
Hongera @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke and the entire team. Read about the importance of branch parameters and chimpanzee locomotion at Issa here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hongera @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke and the entire team. Read about the importance of branch parameters and chimpanzee locomotion at Issa here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
Join for a fantastic opportunity to learn about the newest research in the world of zoology, meet fellow researchers and professionals, and attend unique events and workshops in a fabulous city! See more here:
www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...
www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...
June 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join for a fantastic opportunity to learn about the newest research in the world of zoology, meet fellow researchers and professionals, and attend unique events and workshops in a fabulous city! See more here:
www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...
www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...
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A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.
Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught!
Videos will worth watching
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Videos will worth watching
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS
Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive
empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...
www.pnas.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.
GMERC Project manager Judi Mbayuwayu at the training for the Primate WATCH program-East Africa in Uganda (ARRC task force)- www.arrctaskforce.org/general-1
May 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
GMERC Project manager Judi Mbayuwayu at the training for the Primate WATCH program-East Africa in Uganda (ARRC task force)- www.arrctaskforce.org/general-1
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New paper alert! - number 2
Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning.
Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework
available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning.
Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework
available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group
Social contagion, which involves behavioural and emotional state matching, is a crucial process for healthy social functioning. In humans as well as o…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New paper alert! - number 2
Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning.
Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework
available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning.
Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework
available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how.
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Female solidarity keeps male bonobos in check
Study on wild bonobos reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies
www.ab.mpg.de
April 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how.
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.
Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...
Do chimpanzees use the onset of rains as indicators of termite fishing season? At Issa they do! Team Phillips, Oelze et al. strike again!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Do chimpanzees use the onset of rains as indicators of termite fishing season? At Issa they do! Team Phillips, Oelze et al. strike again!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hongera sana, Ivorda Mhakilicha! Cattle-primate spatiotemporal overlap @ Issa from camera trap footage...https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/aop/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057.xml
April 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Hongera sana, Ivorda Mhakilicha! Cattle-primate spatiotemporal overlap @ Issa from camera trap footage...https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/aop/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057.xml
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🐵 Paid primate internship 🐵
We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer!
Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk
We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer!
Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk
Unitemps
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April 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🐵 Paid primate internship 🐵
We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer!
Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk
We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer!
Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk
Hongera sana to @Ruth Bowers-Sword for successfully defending her PhD on the use of passive acoustic monitoring to study chimpanzees. Doctorhood is upon you!!!
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hongera sana to @Ruth Bowers-Sword for successfully defending her PhD on the use of passive acoustic monitoring to study chimpanzees. Doctorhood is upon you!!!
Does the microbiome reflect diet, ecology and lifestyle in African Hominidae? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Does the microbiome reflect diet, ecology and lifestyle in African Hominidae? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bird scavenging (or hunting?!) - add it to the diet list! Great capture, @R. Drummond-Clarke!. Extra points for anyone who can identify the bird species!
March 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bird scavenging (or hunting?!) - add it to the diet list! Great capture, @R. Drummond-Clarke!. Extra points for anyone who can identify the bird species!
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🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social
It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵
Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social
It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵
Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social
It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵
Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social
It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵
Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻
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@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
March 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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📣🐵 🌿 Our 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. @runnerape.bsky.social, Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, @ellenschulzk.bsky.social, @adamvanc.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees
Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology
www.cell.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📣🐵 🌿 Our 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. @runnerape.bsky.social, Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, @ellenschulzk.bsky.social, @adamvanc.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Follow up the recent paper: theconversation.com/chimpanzee-g...
Chimpanzee genes have changed over time to suit local conditions – new study
Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the adaptations may protect against malaria.
theconversation.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Follow up the recent paper: theconversation.com/chimpanzee-g...
Chimpanzees as indicators of mammalian abundance...PanAf metadataset strikes again! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
March 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Chimpanzees as indicators of mammalian abundance...PanAf metadataset strikes again! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Jane Lukumay - the 2025 GMERC Primatologist Intern - with an enormous Termitomyces sample :) (photo: Noah Siegel)
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Jane Lukumay - the 2025 GMERC Primatologist Intern - with an enormous Termitomyces sample :) (photo: Noah Siegel)
First camera trap capture of infant carrying...and now meat carrying! Well spotted, @Vikram Malhi!
March 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First camera trap capture of infant carrying...and now meat carrying! Well spotted, @Vikram Malhi!
Noah Siegel @ Issa helping identify some of the mysterious mushrooms being consumed by our primate community!
March 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Noah Siegel @ Issa helping identify some of the mysterious mushrooms being consumed by our primate community!