APELAB is recruting enthusiastic master students for an observational project of zoo-housed bonobos in spring 2022. If you are still looking for an internship or thesis project please contact Jonas 🌿 and Nicky Staes ZOO Science (English)

Another APELAB publication now out describing how KIAA0319 gene variants are associated with grey matter differences in the posterior superior temporal gyrus in chimpanzees by Nicky Staes, @chet_sherwood GW Primate Genomics and colleagues CASHP eneuro.org/content/early/…

! New paper alert ! APELAB member Jonas R. R. Torfs, daan laméris en Nicky Staes investigated the role of social network position for attracting respiratory disease in zoohoused bonobos ZOO Science (English)

New work out in AmJournalPrimatology investigating how valenced (non-)social stimuli affect the performance of bonobos during a Stroop task on touchscreens by daan laméris Jonas Verspeek and @Jeronobo1. UAntwerpen FWO ZOO Science (English)

1/4 4th chapter of my Phd is out in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment Adult bonobos show no prosociality: important nuance in the existing field of prosociality research in bonobos peerj.com/articles/12849/ Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen daan laméris Nicky Staes @Jeronobo1 UAntwerpen ZOO Science (English) APELAB

! New APELAB paper alert !

! New paper alert ! from APELAB member @Jeronobo1 and colleagues

YOU might be our new Team member 😉🚨 Job alert 🚨 Fully funded 4-years PhD Position in the Animal Behaviour Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. We very much looking forward to hear from you! #PhdPositions #KalahariMeerkatProject Swiss National Science Foundation University of Zurich RTs are Welcome 🙏🏻

New work from our lab on epigenetic modification of the dopamine system and its impact on chimpanzee exploratory personality from APELAB UAntwerpen members Nicky Staes and @Jeronobo1 and colleagues from CASHP

Huge congrats to Dr Jonas Verspeek who successfully defended his PhD on "Indifferent hippies: prosociality and inequity aversion as proximate mechanism of cooperation in bonobos"

Apes love a good leaf but stick & stone tools get all the attention! Let’s not leaf them out! Have you worked with wild chimps or bonobos? Help Viola Komeda describe the wonderful world of perishable tools! 20-30min questionnaire @st_psy #BeLeaf #WildMinds tinyurl.com/BeLeafs

New APELAB collaborative paper shows how friendship predicts dyadic cofeeding tolerance around a non-monopolizable food source in bonobos and chimps Nicky Staes Kim Vermeulen @Jeronobo1 Jonas R. R. Torfs Jonas Verspeek Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen ZOO Science (English) mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/5…

👉Job call! 👈I am looking for two postdocs to join my efforts to understand how capacities for human symbolic behavior evolved ~150 – 15 k years ago. The project integrates methods and insights from cognitive science and archaeology

APELAB members represented at #EFP_GfP2022. Check out @Jeronobo1 daan laméris Jonas R. R. Torfs in welfare session D1 (10.30-12.15am), Jonas Verspeek in cognition session B3 (4.15pm) and Nicky Staes in genetics session C3 (4.15pm)

Don’t forget to take a look at APELAB student Emile’s poster on a comparison of aggression of captive bonobos and chimpanzees at #EFP_GfP2022

It’s official, with help from the keeper team Twycross Zoo APELAB PHD student Jonas R. R. Torfs just collected his final 💩 sample, thereby completing sampling the entire zoo-housed European bonobo population for his microbiome project. So thankful to all zoos that participated 🙌

Excited to share our latest paper on genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees showing modest genetic contributions of AVPR1a and KIAA0319 genotypes @chet_sherwood Adrien Meguerditchian GW Primate Genomics APELAB academic.oup.com/cercor/advance…

2nd call: If you're interested in a PhD project on chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Rwanda, please contact me by the 15th of July. IPS Primate AABA EFP-Primatology @PsgbSTudent @AusHumanBiology Animal Behaviour - Australasia Science at UWA @CEB_UWA

New paper out! We constructed social grooming networks of 22 groups of zoo-housed bonobos, and investigated the effects of individual (age, sex, rearing) and group-level characteristics (sex ratio, group size) on individual social network position🧵 (1/7) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Come join us at MPI-EVA Leipzig! The Dept of Primate Behavior & Evolution is looking for a lab manager/coordinator to integrate our molecular genetic, cell culture, and field-based labwork. Details here: tinyurl.com/2p83xj4p