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Primate Learning in Action

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A collaborative project aimed at spreading knowledge about primate cognition, behavior & conservation. Website: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearning YouTube: @primatelearninginaction6266 Instagram: @primate_learning

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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Zanzibar red colobuses (Piliocolobus kirkii), also called Kirk's red colobus monkeys, are endemic to islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago. They supplement their leafy diets with charcoal to soothe their digestive systems. Threatened by hunting and habitat loss. Endangered and Critically Depleted.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New data science activity! Check out this R module on calculating and analyzing #grooming and #aggression rates in #chimpanzees, using real data from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project Activity information: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... Kibale Chimpanzee Project: kibalechimpanzees.wordpress.com
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) were thought extinct in the mid-1900s. Rediscovered in southeastern Madagascar in the 1960s and '70s. Bamboo serves as their primary source of food. Threatened by habitat loss due to agriculture, climate change, and hunting. Critically Endangered.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#Chimpanzees can show major sex differences: males are typically more aggressive, obtain higher status, and are more sociable than females Recent work by Margaret Bryer, @kris-sabbi.bsky.social @zeppypearl.bsky.social @alexrosati.bsky.social & others shows that these differences can be #flexible!
Female and male chimpanzee sitting near each other
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ASAB @asab.org · 22/05/2026
Reminder that a lot of grants are due in little over a week (June 1)! This includes Research grants, Undergraduate Project scholarships and the ECBB Conference Attendance/Childcare/Accessibility grants 💸🏃 www.asab.org/grant-overview
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Grants Overview — ASAB
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Collared brown lemurs (Eulemur collaris) are endemic to southeastern Madagascar. Cathemeral, they are active both day and night throughout the year. Their activity is strongly influenced by nocturnal luminosity. Threatened by habitat destruction and hunting. Listed as Endangered.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Did you know male #Barbary #macaques will carry infants from the group? Males show high rates of #infant #handling compared to other primates, and will even carry young, unweaned infants around.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Primates like these #Barbary #macaques at Trentham Monkey Forest love to #groom! We are excited to be back to start some new research examining how these monkeys think and make social decisions.
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa from the Ethiopian Highlands to South Africa. Very adaptable, they easily occupy human settlements where they are persecuted as pests. Although widespread throughout their vast range, their populations are decreasing.
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Geoffroy's dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus major), also called greater dwarf lemurs, are nocturnal. In times of plenty, they store fat in their tails; in times of lack, they become torpid, slowing down their bodily functions, and living on their fat stores. Threatened by habitat loss. Vulnerable.
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play? To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others! "Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Indris (Indri indri) are endemic to Madagascar's eastern rainforests. Populations in the north are black, those in the south are black-and-white, those in between exhibit both color patterns. Threatened by habitat loss, forest fragmentation, and illegal hunting. Listed as Critically Endangered.
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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Our research community is a network of wild animal welfare researchers and practitioners. As a member, you'll have access to our listserv, opportunities board, member directory, events calendar, and more. Membership is free! Join here: www.wildanimalinitiative.org/join
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Join our Research Community — Wild Animal Initiative
Become a member of our community if you would like to engage researchers and practitioners around the world interested in understanding and improving the lives of animals in the wild.
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🥁New #ABCMicrogrants Funding Round!!🥁 More details to follow 🐝🐝🐝 Help us spread the word 🐝🐝🐝
Our second round of microgrant applications will open on May 26th..
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Are you an #instructor interested in illustrating #phylogenetic comparative methods for psychology students studying #animal #cognition? Check out this classroom activity (with slides and reading) using a simple example to illustrate core concepts! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
More classroom activities! Are you an #instructor interested in teaching about principles of #evolution and #naturalselection? Check out this brainstorming activity about the processes of evolution, using #domestication as an example! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Are you an #instructor interested in using #interactive activities to demonstrate principles for the evolution of #cooperation? Check out this classroom activity focused on strategies in the prisoner's dilemma, for high school or university students! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
These octopuses inject their lovers with one of the world’s deadliest toxins | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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These octopuses inject their lovers with one of the world’s deadliest toxins
Male blue-lined octopuses use venomous bites to avoid becoming their mate’s meal
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Cat Ba langurs (Trachypithecus poliocephalus ), also called golden-headed langurs, are one of the world’s most endangered primates with a population of about 80. Poached to near extinction for meat and body parts. Threatened by disturbances from the booming tourism industry. Critically Endangered.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Interested in learning more about data exploration and linear modeling in R? This set of #datascience modules from @csulbquanteco.bsky.social uses real cognitive and demographic data from the #CayoSantiago #rhesus macaque population in #PuertoRico! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Did you know #monkeys like to #play in #water? Check out this set of multimedia from contributor Alyssa Arre's research on “Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques”! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYYU...
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Juvenile monkeys diving on Cayo Santiago
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Callum Carpenter @ccprimatology.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Exciting to be able to share our ongoing work using novel eDNA techniques to detect the western chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 @derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social @joanachimpa.bsky.social www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
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How DNA extracted from forest air could help protect one of West Africa's rarest animals
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025
Call for Applications 2025: Lise Meitner #Research Groups www.mpg.de/lise-meitner-excellence-… Programme by the @maxplanckgesellschaft designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female #scientists deadline April 08th, 2025. note that you should contact […]
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 12/02/2025
The Royal Society's Industry Fellowships are now open for applications. This scheme enables the movement of talented scientists and engineers between academia and industry. Open to researchers from all career stages, find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/indus...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Check out this learning module to learn how to analyze the #diet composition of #chimpanzees @zeppypeaarl.bsky.social sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... Bonus link: footage of #wild #chimpanzees feeding in the forest canopy at #Kibale National Park, #Uganda! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fz-...
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Kanyawara Chimpanzees in the Canopy
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In our latest Primate Conservationist Limelight, NEPC sits down with Kurnia Ilham, an Indonesian conservationist and a driving force behind the Long-Tailed Macaque Project, overseeing initiatives in Indonesia both on the mainland and on Simeulue Island. neprimateconservancy.org/meet-kurnia-ilham/
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Mammal Madness 2025 COMBATANT VALENTINES! With messages of sciency love! #2025MMM Now available for download in color or grayscale at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
A collage of 2025 Valentines from vintage animal illustrations:
Zebra "I'd leave my herd for you" 
Kangaroo "A click's as good as a nod!"
Malayan Tapir "You can rest your head on me"
Link to https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness
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ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Stop press!! The IPS deadline for abstracts has been extended to midnight EST on Feb 28th - so you’ve now got an extra couple of weeks to send us all your most exciting primate ideas!!! #IPSmadagascar #IPS2025
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Alt: a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Ankarana sportive lemurs (Lepilemur ankaranensis) are endemic to northern Madagascar's forests. Nocturnal and solitary; they forage alone by night and shelter in tree holes and vine tangles by day. Populations are declining. Threatened by habitat loss to coal mining and hunting. Endangered.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are taking a moment to highlight some of the amazing contributions of #UMich #undergraduates to Primate Learning in Action!
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Consulte estos módulos de aprendizaje de estadística que utilizan datos reales sobre la cognición de los primates... ¡ahora en español! Check out these statistics learning modules using real data on primate cognition...now in Spanish! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Check out this short documentary about the Kibale Snare Removal Program's work to protect wild #chimpanzees in #Uganda: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... and see the full video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn3i...
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Kibale (Chimpanzee) Snare Removal Program Short Documentary, Kibale Chimpanzee Project
YouTube video by Jess Hartel
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🔊EHBEA members we have a few deadlines coming up... ECRs nomiate yourself for the New Investigator Award by December 10th!!! Application details 👇https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/ehbea/awards#investigators
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is the western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock )! Also called white-browed gibbons and Hoolock gibbons. From India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The only apes native to the Indian subcontinent. Threatened by habitat loss; 70% of their forest is already gone. Listed as Endangered.
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We're not just about primates! Check out this set of activities on #pangolins for #kids, from our collaborators The Kasiisi Project. And check the whole series of activities, focused on the wild animals of Kibale National Park in Uganda: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Interested in learning more about primate #observational methods? Check out these modules on recording #chimpanzee behavior, including grooming, aggression, & tool use, with example videos thanks to @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & Kibale Chimpanzee Project! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
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Chimpanzee Behavior Module (1): Overview – Primate Learning in Action
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Primate Learning in Action @primate-learning.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Check out this video of wild #chimpanzees in the canopy of Kibale National Park, and other forms of primate behavior on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fz-...
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Kanyawara Chimpanzees in the Canopy
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