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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · 3d

Human #nestbuilding all in the name of 🧪

Luckily my teachers 🦧 were the best!

Construction is not as easy as you think - got 5 minutes? Show me what you can do!

#nestbuildingchallenge
#primates
#orangutans
#tooluse
#technology

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · 10d

#Primates
We’ve lost one of our pioneers

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Sep 1

#Primates
#AcademicSky
#Science
🧪

Stop Press!

#CommunicationsBiology have finally done right by our work and published the correct version of our article!
Press Release here:

warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Orangutans learn how to build beds by ‘peering’ at others

warwick.ac.uk

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our recent publication in #CommunicationsBiology was published in error before production actioned corrections 🤦‍♀️
I’ve now received 3 more proofs, still with errors!!
For a #nature journal you expect a more competent production team.
#GWYPF?

#openaccess
#publication-fees go where
#AcademicSky
#ffs

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Aug 5

Pleased to see our work being shared 🙏🦧

Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fascinating guest blog from Dr Andrea Permana about her research on the napping patterns of orangutans, recently published in Current Biology:

www.orangutanlandtrust.com/post/orangut...

@dranipermana.bsky.social
‪@currentbiology.bsky.social‬

Orangutans catch up on lost sleep by daytime naps – just like us!

By Andrea L. PermanaWild orangutans have a remarkable way of dealing with disrupted sleep: they take naps during the day to make up for it.In our new study published in Current Biology, we found that ...

www.orangutanlandtrust.com

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jul 18

Who’s coming?
#primates

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 30

Here's a link to a new blog post that I wrote for the #orangutanlandtrust

#primates 🦧
#science 🧪
#ecologyandevolution

Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · Jun 30

New research by @dranipermana.bsky.social of @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social into how young orangutans acquire their nest-building skills.

"Young orangutans do not instinctively know how to build nests...they gradually master the skills over 7+ years."

www.orangutanlandtrust.com/post/learnin...

Learning by watching: New insights into how nest-building skills are acquired and passed on.

By Dr Andrea L. PermanaResearch Fellow, University of Warwick, UK and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour.When you think of wild orangutans, the chances are you picture one high in the trees movi...

www.orangutanlandtrust.com

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 28

Saturday morning achievement - submitting an EOI for a super exciting new international collaboration and a long-time dream coming true!

Pray, keep fingers crossed and whatever else for all good things to come

a group of people are standing next to each other in a hallway and one of them is wearing a tank top .

ALT: a group of people are standing next to each other in a hallway and one of them is wearing a tank top .

media.tenor.com

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Matt Haber @profmatthaber.bsky.social · Jun 27

For the cog sci folks out there, a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B @royalsocietypublishing.org: ‘Selection shapes diverse animal minds’. Collection of papers focusing on diversity of evolved animal cognition, from nematodes to primates.

royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929

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royalsocietypublishing.org

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our new paper is out in #CurrentBiology!

Here we show how wild #orangutans make up for their lost sleep using daytime naps. 😴🦧

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Primates
#AcademicSky
#Science
#Anthropology
#Biology

Wild orangutans maintain sleep homeostasis through napping, counterbalancing socio-ecological factors that interfere with their sleep

Sleep is a vital physiological process that lab-based studies of model species, including humans, have shown is homeostatically regulated—i.e., pressu…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 26

I've sent you some videos!

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’ll find some good ones and send them over.

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 24

Do you mean tree-swaying? Sure I have hundreds. DM me what you need 🦧🙏

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 13

Already on it. When you pay such a premium it kinda feels like you should get a better service 😏

Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 13

#Academicsky riddle me this:

You publish in a high ranking journal but production published your article without actioning critical amendments to proofs - colleagues have noticed and been in contact.

How cross are you and how long do you wait for a response and explanation from the journal?
#😡

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Jun 9

Here is what 2 years of fieldwork looks like! 🙌 also 👏 to Ani’s husband for taking on the lead acting role in the project and posing as a 🐅😮

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ani Permana kicks off our evolutionary session with her work on displaced reference in wild orangutans @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay #ApeTank

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thanks! 🙏 ( I will admit climbing up to the nests was also one of my favourite parts!)

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · Jun 8

Our new paper is out!

We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych

🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

link.springer.com

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks @pintofscience.uk
I had a great evening sharing my work on #orangutan nests at the #universityofwarwick last night!

Charlotte Gannon @ckagannon.bsky.social · May 21

A great time at @pintofscience.uk last night watching @dranipermana.bsky.social teach us all about orangutan nest building and then expertly judge our own nests! Turns out I need to spend a bit more time in the forest to get the hang of it.

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks for coming! Yes - you must come to the forest and do some tree climbing with me 😊

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks 👍

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · May 13

Sure! Add me in 👍

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · May 11

Analysis is well underway of thousands of hours of audio recordings of #orangutans!

Looking forward to sharing what we find as soon as we can. Watch this space!

#bioacoustics
#primates
#warwickpsych
#language
#apetank

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