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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 12d

The importance of mushrooms to Issa's primates!
theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...

Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: primate study explores who eats what and when

Mushrooms make up a crucial part of some monkeys’ diets, offering insights into the past.

theconversation.com

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hongera @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke and the entire team. Read about the importance of branch parameters and chimpanzee locomotion at Issa here: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Jun 20

Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Jun 20

Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Join for a fantastic opportunity to learn about the newest research in the world of zoology, meet fellow researchers and professionals, and attend unique events and workshops in a fabulous city! See more here:
www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...

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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · May 20

A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!

Join us at UCL Anthropology!

www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

Eligibility
Candidates must fulfil all of the following criteria:

be ordinarily resident in the UK or Ireland and eligible to pay Home fee rate OR be a Ukrainian student granted Home fee status as part of the Ukraine Scheme;
have commenced undergraduate study no earlier than the 2012/13 academic session;
have an annual household income of £42,875 or less;
not have previously been awarded the Master's Bursary for prior Master's study;
AND have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time or part-time standalone Master's degree* at UCL in 2025/26. The flexible study mode is not eligible.
Must be a standalone Master's rather than the Master's element of an integrated undergraduate degree such as MEng, MPharm, etc.

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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · May 17

#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.

Tomer J. Czaczkes @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social · May 17

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught!

Videos will worth watching

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS

Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...

www.pnas.org

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · May 3

GMERC Project manager Judi Mbayuwayu at the training for the Primate WATCH program-East Africa in Uganda (ARRC task force)- www.arrctaskforce.org/general-1

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Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social · Apr 25

New paper alert! - number 2

Social contagion underpins key elements of social interaction, including empathy & social learning.

Here, we review research on primate social contagion and offer a unifying framework

available open-access! 👇👇 w/ Georgia Sandars

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

Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group

Social contagion, which involves behavioural and emotional state matching, is a crucial process for healthy social functioning. In humans as well as o…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Apr 24

Bonobo societies are famous for being “female dominant.” But females are weaker than males, so how can this be? Study by Barbara Fruth and Martin Surbeck on wild bonobos explains how.

Hint: it has to do with female solidarity.

Paper ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

www.ab.mpg.de/673281/news_...

Female solidarity keeps male bonobos in check

Study on wild bonobos reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies

www.ab.mpg.de

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Apr 20

Do chimpanzees use the onset of rains as indicators of termite fishing season? At Issa they do! Team Phillips, Oelze et al. strike again!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Apr 20

Hongera sana, Ivorda Mhakilicha! Cattle-primate spatiotemporal overlap @ Issa from camera trap footage...https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/aop/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057/article-10.1163-14219980-bja10057.xml

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · Apr 4

🐵 Paid primate internship 🐵
We're looking for a short-term & part-time research assistant to do some parasite analysis on monkey poo - great way to spend a summer!
Given the timeframe and part-time role, this is best suited to students located close to Liverpool. Full details: tinyurl.com/y38rzspk

Unitemps

portal.unitemps.com

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hongera sana to @Ruth Bowers-Sword for successfully defending her PhD on the use of passive acoustic monitoring to study chimpanzees. Doctorhood is upon you!!!

GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Does the microbiome reflect diet, ecology and lifestyle in African Hominidae? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Bird scavenging (or hunting?!) - add it to the diet list! Great capture, @R. Drummond-Clarke!. Extra points for anyone who can identify the bird species!

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Mar 26

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

www.eva.mpg.de

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Alejandra Pascual-Garrido @runnerape.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣🐵 🌿 Our study shows that Gombe chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing plant materials to make tools based on specific properties that make them ideal for the job. @runnerape.bsky.social, Susana Carvalho, Deus Mjungu, @ellenschulzk.bsky.social, @adamvanc.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...