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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We had a great seminar yesterday by Francesco Zambianchi about using passive acoustic monitoring to study how chimpanzee calls propagate. Thanks again, Francesco!

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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy to share a short article I wrote for @theconversation.com , where I highlight our recently published EVApeCognition Dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and discuss how it can help advance research into great ape cognition and behaviour theconversation.com/great-apes-w...

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Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social behaviour.

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We had a very interesting talk by @realprimatthias.bsky.social about pointing in great apes and humans. Thanks again, Matthias!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We had a great seminar yesterday about anthropogenic disturbance, dietary diversity and but microbiome differentiation in the Zanzibar red colobus! Thanks again, Pat!

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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data. Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We had a great talk last week by Janie Fink about short-term memory in primates. Thanks again, Janie!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We had a fantastic talk by @florianefournier.bsky.social about her research on vocal communication in bonobos! Thanks, Floriane!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We had a nice talk last week about personality and wellbeing in captive ring-tailed lemurs. Thanks, Ashleigh!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Great seminar yesterday about the global threat of snare poaching led by Dylan Feldmeier. Many thanks, Dylan!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We had a fantastic seminar yesterday led by @rouratorresb.bsky.social about early life adversity and fitness trajectories in mandrills. Thanks again, Berta!

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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Glad to share our new study led by @kirstensutherland.bsky.social. We have investigated how chimpanzees solve common pool resources using a novel group paradigm. Find more in Kirsten's post

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Adrian Soldati @adriansoldati.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New 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...

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Thanks to @elerolland.bsky.social for a great talk yesterday on mother–infant attachment in wild chimpanzees!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We had a very interesting seminar this week by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social about her research on bonobo communication. Thanks again, Melissa!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Many thanks again, Luke, for the great seminar today!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We had a great seminar last week led by Dr Léo Perrier about his research on animal signal evolution!

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BERG Stirling @berg-stirling.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We had a great start to our BERG seminars this semester. Thank you very much again, Alex!

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at @ehbea2025.bsky.social Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠 Don’t miss it! 👇 youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...

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Christine Caldwell - EHBEA 2025

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Cat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

TLDR: 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… 🧵1/16

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Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation

Chimpanzees 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....

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Clare Andrews @clareandrews.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Congratulations to @stir.ac.uk PhD student Alice Turner for her award-winning poster on her research exploring how human land use affects beaver foraging behaviour 👏🦫 #ECRresearch #Conservation #HumanWildlifeCoexistence

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Clare Andrews @clareandrews.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🐕‍🦺 #Dogs have transitioned from working animals to beloved family members—but are laws keeping up? #companionanimals #HAI Congrats to PhD student @sarahweir1.bsky.social from @berg-stirling.bsky.social on her 1st #PhDpaper 👏 #ECRresearch 📄 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What an excellent final plenary at #EHBEA2025!! 👩‍🏫 Prof Christine Caldwell shared research on #CulturalTransmission 🧠 Adults & childre can transmit subsets of info, that perform as well as if they transmitted full info! 🗣 #CulturalEvolution #InformationSharing #EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social

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Adrian Soldati @adriansoldati.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Our 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...

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