in the beginning of September the UVP hosted a few days with our collaborators from the Sinergia project on gut-microbiom axis & behavior. Looking forward to see what the urban diet reveals in terms of health 🐒🍕🐒 @UrbanVervet Project @SimbithiEcoEstate

Thanks to the Diverse Intelligence Community for all these inspiring days & impressions in Sydney 🙏🏻 @chriskrupenye.bsky.social @katelaskowski.bsky.social @divintelligence.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social

🚨New PrePrint out on the Kalahari Meerkats. In this study we quantified two axes of sociality to explain how developmental needs of pups shape meerkat social life. @zoejturn.bsky.social Neumann Christof & Tommaso Sacca
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Team catch up with the urban vervet heroes coming to an end at beautiful coast of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Thanks @ccenni.bsky.social Valeria Simenova, Durre & Lukas 🙏🏻🐒

One of my favorite topics - intelligence across systems at Swissnex Day 2025, very nice to be able to contribute with a perspective representing the animal world.

meanwhile in Kalahari - some serious babysitting professionals with one of our study group guarding 12 pups !

Happy Easter from Kalahari’s beautiful light show, and a nice coincidence to run into German Colleagues at KRC @mdammhahn.bsky.social

Surely you have heard of/ used novel object paradigms to assess animal personality? In this paper we validate exploration behavior through a battery of stimuli in both social and individual conditions and across a longer period of time.

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For all my South African Colleagues - Do you know anyone with honors in environmental science/ wildlife management looking for a position 👇🏼@SimbithiEco @UrbanVervet

a week fresh northern air with some of natures most mesmerizing shows 🤍🇫🇮

Well isn’t that a “sexy” title that wakes you up, when opening your morning desktop 🤩😂 (also sounds super interesting) 👇🏼

Happy New Year from the Urban Vervet Project! Since Simbithi Eco Estate gets crowded over the Holidays we seize this time for some educational work. Very proud if my onsite team teaching residents how to avoid human-wildlife conflicts 🙏🏻