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New fully funded corvid vocal communication PhD opportunity with Cornish Jackdaws Andrew King Ines Fürtbauer @NeeltjeBoogert and in collaboration with us here UZH Science! Please RT!

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New article on how dogs are using their soundboards at home is finally out! Using a large dataset (250K) of button presses by family dogs and their owners, we show that dogs’ presses are (i) non-accidental, (ii) non-random, and (iii) not mere repetitions of their owners’ presses.

The #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is back for 2025! You must be an #ECR to opt-in and submit your research by 30 April 2025 for the chance to win £1000. Two runners-up will also receive £500 each. Find out more: ow.ly/aCgx50UCo2H

Happy #WorldBonoboDay! 🐵 Bonobos are our closest relatives (along with chimpanzees), yet there are only an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 left in the wild. Protecting them means safeguarding their forests! Conservation is key to their future🌿 📸 Taken by me at Friends of Bonobos

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planck-… #ScienceCareer

New paper Royal Society Publishing investigating the representations underlying bonobo food and alarm calls w/Nicole Lahiff Zanna Clay Amanda Epping, Jared Taglialatela and Katie Slocombe. Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science NCCR Evolving Language royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

We have lost a legend. Yesterday morning, I received the devastating news that Kanzi, the world’s most famous bonobo, died unexpectedly the day before, in the company of his bonobo family Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative. I've written here about this tremendous loss. We will miss him dearly.

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study suggests. nbcnews.com/science/scienc…

Exciting new methods and results by Mélissa Berthet, Martin Surbeck and Simon Townsend: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Bonobos, unsere nächsten lebenden Verwandten, bilden komplexe Lautfolgen, die menschlichen Wortkombinationen ähneln: news.uzh.ch/de/articles/me… Simon W. Townsend @Mael_Lx ISLE NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science

Wild bonobos—our closest living relatives—communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new Science study. scim.ag/42t71Qm

Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab University of Zurich Please retweet! Link: uzh-my.sharepoint.com/my?id=%2Fperso…

Our new paper is out!🐒🔊 Studying two wild chimpanzee populations, we found they flexibly adjust pant hoot acoustics to context (feed vs. travel). Most patterns are shared, but some community differences may suggest a small role for vocal usage learning. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? In our new PLOS Biology paper DynoBaLL UNIGE and I suggest the uterine environment might represent a small but significant piece of the language evolution puzzle! NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics, application deadline June 2nd: mpi.nl/career-educati…

📣 PhD position in Statistical Modelling of Language Evolution at our institute, to work with Prof Balthasar Bickel on modelling language diversification, see details here: isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-st…

TLDR: new paper headed up by Vesta Eleuteri 🐘 & with an awesome team, incl @AndreaRavignani , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 📖 Read the full story: rdcu.be/el857 1/n 🧵👇