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Tanzania-based organisation focusing on western Tanzania chimpanzee, guenon, and yellow baboon behaviour, ecology, and conservation. See more @ gmerc.org

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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The importance of mushrooms to Issa's primates! theconversation.com/mushrooms-ma...
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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.
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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 · 20/06/2025
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Two very proud supervisor-people and a newly-hatted doctor. Hongera sana, @Rhianna Drummond-Clarke!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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 · 20/05/2025
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 · 17/05/2025
#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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 · 25/04/2025
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...
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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…
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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_...
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Female solidarity keeps male bonobos in check
Study on wild bonobos reveals that females team up to maintain power in their societies
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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 · 20/04/2025
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 · 04/04/2025
🐵 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
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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!!!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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 · 27/03/2025
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 · 26/03/2025
🚨 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 · 26/03/2025
@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...
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Alejandra Pascual-Garrido @runnerape.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📣🐵 🌿 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...
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Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees
Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Salt lickin' good!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Follow up the recent paper: theconversation.com/chimpanzee-g...
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Chimpanzee genes have changed over time to suit local conditions – new study
Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the adaptations may protect against malaria.
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chimpanzees as indicators of mammalian abundance...PanAf metadataset strikes again! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Photo: F. Drontmann/GMERC
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Jane Lukumay - the 2025 GMERC Primatologist Intern - with an enormous Termitomyces sample :) (photo: Noah Siegel)
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
First camera trap capture of infant carrying...and now meat carrying! Well spotted, @Vikram Malhi!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Noah Siegel @ Issa helping identify some of the mysterious mushrooms being consumed by our primate community!
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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2025. Unexpected findings: Many mammals defy traditional day-night activity labels phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Unexpected findings: Many mammals defy traditional day-night activity labels
Animal antics have captured public attention and viral views across the U.S. in the last few years with the advent of mini cameras that capture the movements of animals in front yards nationwide, from...
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"We present MacaqueNet, a global community of researchers who developed the first database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This database facilitates comparative research into the eco-evolutionary drivers of animal behaviour" @DeMoorDelphine🌏
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
2-year postdoc in Tübingen on the communicative plasticity in wild & captive bonobos, fully funded by @VolkswagenSt. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
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Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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ASAB @asab.org · 14/02/2025
Last chance to submit an abstract to #Behaviour2025 ! Deadline Feb 15
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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🌿 Join the @mbchimp.bsky.social ! 🐵 Seeking a part-time Data Assistant in Göttingen, Germany. Ideal candidates have experience in GIS and R, and will work with camera trap and spatial data. Dive into chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Guinea's PNMB. #Conservation #DataScience
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7l... Fabulous work
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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY - RUAHA KATAVI AERIAL SURVEY
YouTube video by Distory Communications
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Infant carrying we've seen, but infant dragging? Fab find, @wildmolecules.bsky.social !!!
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Biological Anthropology @bioanth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New data show Western vs. Eastern chimpanzees have no consistent differences in endocranial volume or body size, suggesting ~700k years of stasis. Palate length was shorter in Western females, but overall brain size remains unchanged. - Wrangham and Worthington (AJBA):
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Apparent Stasis of Endocranial Volume in Two Chimpanzee Subspecies
Absolute endocranial volume (ECV) stratified by subspecies, sex, and country.
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In another life, I want to be a bushbaby....a bouncy one.
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Chimpanzees genetically adapted to local habitats, incl. savannas! ...Congratulations to all! Article here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees
How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as nonhuman great apes. Ch...
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New paper by team Oelze et al.! on the diverse role of strontium isotopes....https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/01/pan-african-strontium-isoscape.html
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New strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa is a powerful tool for archaeology, forensics, and wildlife conservation
Researchers mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across most of the African continent. Matching values from the map against those observed in artifacts and plant, animal, and human r...
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Justas_Mikulenas & Caitlin_Green from @uclofficial.bsky.social Msc in Biodiversity and Global Change present their work @ PSGB Bristol in Dec 2024. Hongerini!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Ah, the benefits of archival footage. Make that FOUR Issa primate species that exploit the local mushroom diversity!
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Dr Katrina Siddiqi-Davies @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025. 🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist? 🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands? 🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions? For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...
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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We know water is wet, but do chimps care about it? If you ever wondered about that, come along tomorrow morning to my #BES2024 talk to find out the answer!
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teresa-romero.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:
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Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth, listed on FindAPhD.com
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"If I just stay vewy vewy still, that wittle wed light will stop following me". Bipedality in our most distant relative, Otolemur crassicaudatus!
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Field teams deploy camera traps and head to transects through previous chimpanzee habitat as part of ongoing survey and monitoring work to assess chimpanzee corridor habitat in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem. Partnering with @TAWIRI and with support from @arcusapes.bsky.social and @FZS
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mushroom season in full effect!
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Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Now this is a fabulous job: pathway to independence fellowship in Ecology and Conservation at Cambridge University. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/c...
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Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Cambridge
Apply for the Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and ap...
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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GMERC @gmerc-tz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Arboreal camera trapping success @ Issa by @juju_janisch, @AdamvanC, & @tracykivell.bsky.social Safi sana!
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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Two fully funded, primate-focused PhD studentships up for grabs at @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/nhfkfh7x tinyurl.com/mrywvnhx
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a couple of black monkeys sitting in the grass with the word bwoo in white letters
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