Adrian Soldati @adriansoldati.bsky.social · 21/01/2026New paper out👂📢🐒! We highlight the remarkable expertise of local field assistants at BCFS (Uganda) in interpreting chimpanzee pant-hoot calls—identifying who is calling, their age, sex, and context—revealing scientific knowledge built through years of experience. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 12615
Reposted by Adrian SoldatiCat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social · 09/05/2025TLDR: new paper headed up by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social & with an awesome team, incl @andrearavignani.bsky.social , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! www.cell.com/current-biol... But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16cell.comChimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variationChimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees for communication. Eleuteri et al. investigate the presence of key elements of musical rhythm and of regional variation in chimpanzee buttress drumming.... 46930
Adrian Soldati @adriansoldati.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Our new paper is out! 🐒🔊 We compared two wild chimpanzee populations and found that individuals adjust pant hoot acoustics based on context (feeding vs. travelling). Most patterns are shared, but subtle community differences may hint at a small role for vocal usage learning. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 13213