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Way to go, Lara!!! 🥰💪🤩

It’s the Great Ape Behaviour Course time of year! 🤩 Excited to see all the fantastic student projects come to life! ❤️ Topics range from 🦧 orangutan mother-offspring relationships to 🦍 gorilla rearing history📊🤓💪 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich

With the teaching dream team! 🥳 Lara Zanutto 🐒 Ellen Soeters & Julia! 😍

Last minute team changes mean we have a position open at short notice. Starts mid-Jan, application deadline Nov 21, costs covered & small stipend. DM for any questions - it’ll be full-on algae fishing fun times!!! Pls RT

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New paper alert 📢 Chimpanzees playing bouts fosters cooperation in adults! Liran Samuni and colleagues from the Taï Chimpanzee Project show how playing between adult chimpanzees predict cooperation between adults in the group. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Social play is not only fun but also has important social functions in #chimpanzee societies, promoting bonding & collective cooperation! Current Biology It is also a behavior that is really a pleasure to document Access it here authors.elsevier.com/a/1k8Me3QW8S6G…

Adult chimpanzees play together to promote cooperation and ease tension go.nature.com/4i3MAz9

Liran Samuni Current Biology Congrats!!! Such a great study!!! And amazing chimp field data - possible thanks to all the efforts involved in running a long term field site!!! 💪💪💪 Big kudos to the whole Taï Chimpanzee Project 🙌

And that’s a wrap! 😍 It was an absolute pleasure working with this fabulous group of students. 🦍 Huge thanks to Zoo Zürich for hosting us! 🦧 We much enjoyed the talks by the ape head keeper and curator 🙏 Universität Zürich University of Zurich Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group

✨Chimpanzee play and the evolutionary roots of cooperation✨ Dispatch Current Biology commenting on the fabulous paper by Liran Samuni and colleageus Taï Chimpanzee Project link: cell.com/current-biolog…

🚨IMPORTANT CONGRESS INFO - DATE CHANGE to 20-25th July This week we were informed that the President of Madagascar has decided to host the SADC (Southern African Development Community) Summit in Madagascar at the same time we were planning to have the IPS Congress.

New paper alert! Sex and strife in our closest ape relatives Our #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing shows bonobos + chimpanzees overlap in their use of sex during social tension -w Dr Jake & coauthors inc the late Frans de Waal, his last paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Adventure calls!!! ❤️💛💚 Off to Guinea for the next month to catch up with everyone at the Nimba Chimpanzee Project! 🤩 Can’t wait!!! Fingers crossed for my >80 kg of luggage to arrive!!! 🤞😅 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

The two-day drive from Conakry to Nimba 💪 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

Back with my Nimba family ❤️💛💚 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

My 💚 Nimba Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

Magical last day in Nimba 💚 I got to spend the afternoon with Kaija (named after my daughter of similar age!). 😍 Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group University of Zurich Jane Goodall Institut Schweiz

Hoots!!! Awesome new study out on chimpanzee drumming! 🥁 Featuring the fabulous Nimba chimps!