Masaki Shimada showed us how we can study social play with social network analysis SNA showing his research on Japanese macaques and chimpanzees! #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Let’s try to crack the laugh code with Fausto Caruana providing us with a super interesting talk on the neurobiological basis of laughter in primates! #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Selected talk #1 is about social play in rats and social exclusion, many thanks to Jackson R. Ham 🐭 #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Selected talk #2: One of the biggest issues in play research is often how to distinguish play fighting from real fighting, Veronica Maglieri has the answer for wolves! 🐺(but also dogs 🐶) #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Selected talk #2: Sasha Winkler, PhD talking about play teasing, its modalities and possible function in apes 🦍 🦧 #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Selected talk #4: Kris Sabbi, PhD talking about social play in wild adult chimpanzees (and particularly maternal play)! 🍃 #Erice2023PLAYFULSOCIETIES

Luckily our conference has ended before someone could follow such suggestions! 😂 (btw it would have really matched the combo monastery-fog-cold)

Not only #primates! Our new article on social play and affiliation in cattle is (finally!) out!🐮 We investigated whether fluctuations in the expression of social behaviours might relate to the animals' internal state! @bettapalagi link.springer.com/article/10.100… #animalwelfare

Our data collection has started! Stay tuned 🐒 enjoy some amazing geladas in their natural environment (Debre Libanos, Ethiopia) The Leakey Foundation EAZA Conservation

Behind the scenes: our wonderful team composed by students of both Addis Ababa University and University of Pisa. The science is powerful when the efforts are shared! Stay tuned for more news from Debre Libanos, Ethiopia 🇪🇹🐒 The Leakey Foundation EAZA Conservation

Finally the PI of our project @bettapalagi is on the field with us! We’ve been following our focal gelada groups since 2 months now! Thanks again to The Leakey Foundation and EAZA Conservation for your support! Stay tuned 🐒

Our two PIs clearly highlight the importance of #womeninscience across countries! @bettapalagi and Bezawork Afework 🐒🐒🐒 The Leakey Foundation

We had a day filled with surprise, joy, and gratefulness when the community organized an event to make us feel part of Debre Libanos. An incredible emotion and honor for all of us! This is why our project goes beyond the study of gelada sociality! The Leakey Foundation 🐒🐒🐒

Mondays from the field with geladas… a real dream coming true for me❤️🐒🇪🇹 Geladas_for_Cooperation

🚨 New paper on rhesus macaque play fighting! 🐒 Discover how rapid facial mimicry in this despotic species is influenced by rank and linked to the emotional arousal of playmates! 🎭📊 very proud of this @bettapalagi @EthosLabo Open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Please spread this and help us with our second fundraising for the schools of the community of Debre Libanos! The first one was successful but now we want to involve more people 🫶🏾🫶🏻 don’t hesitate to contact us here or Alice Galotti ! Every penny helps

🚨 Exciting news! The first paper from our project out in IntJPrimatology 🐒 We report positive interspecies interactions between tolerant geladas and olive baboons in an unprotected area in Ethiopia 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼The Leakey Foundation @EthosLabo Full story here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New article: Bridging Species Divides: Affiliative Interactions between Theropithecus gelada and Papio anubis in an Unprotected Area in Ethiopia by Alice Galotti and colleagues: link.springer.com/article/10.100…. Free to read rdcu.be/dRRS5

🚨New paper! We found that in rhesus macaques spontaneous triadic affiliation after conflicts is common, increases with the victim-bystander bond and victim distress signals. This challenges traditional despotic-tolerant dichotomies🐒 @bettapalagi sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What an end to the year! 🚨New publication 🚨Our work on multimodality in yawn contagion 🥱 and on the centrality of female-female mirror responses in geladas is finally out! Free on AmJournalPrimatology 🐒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… EthoS @bettapalagi Martina Francesconi