What’s better to read about on Valentine’s Day than our new paper on same-sex sex in Rwenzori colobus? ❤️❤️ Monkey love knows no bounds. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Chess 🇨🇦: #Canada
@uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social
Back in the Boé, Guinea-Bissau after a long journey with two of GAB lab's finest! Happy to see many familiar faces. Thanks @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for the funding to make this happen!
This is figure 4, which shows handaxe and pyrite fragments from palaeosol.
Deliberate fire-making by humans in the UK may date to more than 400,000 years ago, according to evidence in Nature. The findings predate previous evidence for the deliberate lighting of fires by around 350,000 years. go.nature.com/4oKHAS4 🏺 🧪
Big thrill to also see my @beps-bangor.bsky.social colleague @cmbettridge.bsky.social present some of her work on galagos in Senegal and Kenya - from her student Grace Ellison’s PhD! #PSGBCardiff2025
📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇
Found some of the participants of the session here on Bluesky! @lemrlab.bsky.social @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social @knomascus.bsky.social
And amazing friends and colleagues!
With session co-chair Travis Steffens, thank you!!
First time organizing a primatology session on behavioral flexibility in the Anthropocene, let alone first time organizing a conference! Easy to do with supportive co-organizers @uvicanthro.bsky.social, excellent volunteers and the wonderful CABA-ACAB community! @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social
Are humans the only rational animals?
For thousands of years, we’ve thought so.
Our new paper, out today in Science, suggests otherwise!
We present evidence that chimpanzees possess several core capacities for rational thought.
Check out Emily's thread: bsky.app/profile/emil...
TWO papers just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org #biologyletters :
1) Red kites switched from scavenging along roads to foraging away from roads during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
2) Fishers synchronise heart rates when cooperating with dolphins, but only when in close proximity.
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? @nature.com
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.
She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.
#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane
Photo: Marko Zlousic
A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.
Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright
“We have no other choice for our livelihood, either suffer in poverty or die in a tiger attack.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/tige...
Research just published by Marla MacKinnon and Helen Kurki looks at how environmental factors impact growth of the pelvis in forager populations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Avoidance of reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause in chimpanzees”
Read how we used genomic data to examine kinship dynamics as they relate to menopause in chimpanzees!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Why do chimps throw stones at trees? UVic's Ammie Kalan uncovers this unique behavior, offering insights into primate communication and tool use, linking it to our evolutionary past.
Image Credit: A.Kalan. @uvicanthro.bsky.social @ammiekalan.bsky.social
Full article: news.uvic.ca/2025/great-a...
This interviewee rehabilitates illegally traded pangolins that fetch a high price on the black market
https://go.nature.com/3SUakL2
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 👇
The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt
More coming soon! :)
For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Everyone watch the interview w @alondra.bsky.social on The Briefing with Jen Psaki tonight. She reveals that a member of DOGE "invited himself" to the closed sessions of the recent #NSB meeting and that DOGE is making decisions about #NSF awards.
@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
Primatologist @ammiekalan.bsky.social is a contributing author on a new @royalsocietypublishing.org paper:
"Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures"
part of a theme issue on ‘Animal culture: conservation in a changing world' 🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A graphic of a sun peaking out from behind three mountains. It has the SCB logo on it, and says Happy Earth Day From SCB.
Happy #EarthDay!
Today—and every day—we stand with scientists, communities, and conservationists around the world working to protect the planet’s #biodiversity.
🌍🦑🐋🍄🌱🐛🦥
cultural legacies of wild animals - a new perspective in @science.org by our own Dr. @ammiekalan.bsky.social 🧪🔋📚🪛
Interesting article in Science today about why we should safeguard animal cultures too
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
