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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kalahari meerkat pup showing off his relatively good self-control skills 🤩 meerkat star ⭐️ 👇🏼

Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The annual Kalahari Research Centre conference in Zurich 2026. Always amazed by how many diverse research topics we cover at this truly unique site 🫶 @arispeshkin.bsky.social @animal-sounds.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social @domcram.bsky.social @mathildemartin.bsky.social and all involved 🫶

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Very much impressed by the beautiful Princeton University and thankful for the invitation to Diverse Intelligence Summit 2026 hosted by the Natural and Artificial Minds center @divintelligence.bsky.social

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Isn’t Fieldwork the Best when you can share it with loved ones! This week, I had the privilege to show my family the Simbithi site of the @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just have had the best “Kick-Off” to Field Season 2026 at the Kalahari Research Centre with an incredible talented team of Girl power 💪🏻 🙏🏻 Mijke, Nicole & Laura

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🚨New Paper on Bonobo and Chimpanzee tool flexibility. As so often performance is leveraged by the captivity effect yet the two species differ in explorative behavior and how readily they switch between tool types. For more 👇🏼 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @rachelaharrison.bsky.social

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

sometimes you have to pause and just be grateful ✨for having such kind and awesome colleagues - who knows exactly what you need 🫶🏼

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

in the beginning of September the UVP hosted a few days with our collaborators from the Sinergia project on gut-microbiom axis & behavior. Looking forward to see what the urban diet reveals in terms of health 🐒🍕🐒 @UrbanVervet Project @SimbithiEcoEstate

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Thanks to the Diverse Intelligence Community for all these inspiring days & impressions in Sydney 🙏🏻 @chriskrupenye.bsky.social @katelaskowski.bsky.social @divintelligence.bsky.social @maxkw.bsky.social

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🚨New PrePrint out on the Kalahari Meerkats. In this study we quantified two axes of sociality to explain how developmental needs of pups shape meerkat social life. @zoejturn.bsky.social Neumann Christof & Tommaso Sacca ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Team catch up with the urban vervet heroes coming to an end at beautiful coast of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Thanks @ccenni.bsky.social Valeria Simenova, Durre & Lukas 🙏🏻🐒

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

One of my favorite topics - intelligence across systems at Swissnex Day 2025, very nice to be able to contribute with a perspective representing the animal world.

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

meanwhile in Kalahari - some serious babysitting professionals with one of our study group guarding 12 pups !

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter from Kalahari’s beautiful light show, and a nice coincidence to run into German Colleagues at KRC @mdammhahn.bsky.social

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Surely you have heard of/ used novel object paradigms to assess animal personality? In this paper we validate exploration behavior through a battery of stimuli in both social and individual conditions and across a longer period of time. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

For all my South African Colleagues - Do you know anyone with honors in environmental science/ wildlife management looking for a position 👇🏼@SimbithiEco @UrbanVervet

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

a week fresh northern air with some of natures most mesmerizing shows 🤍🇫🇮

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Well isn’t that a “sexy” title that wakes you up, when opening your morning desktop 🤩😂 (also sounds super interesting) 👇🏼

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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy New Year from the Urban Vervet Project! Since Simbithi Eco Estate gets crowded over the Holidays we seize this time for some educational work. Very proud if my onsite team teaching residents how to avoid human-wildlife conflicts 🙏🏻

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