We are very excited to welcome two new APE Group members. In October, we were joined by Dr Julia Kunz (post-doctoral researcher) and Jonas Mason (joint MSc student with ETH).
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We used the same motion-triggered camera technology to compare party size and composition between the western Gahtoy community in the Nimba Mountains (Guinea) and the eastern Waibira community in the Budongo Forest (Uganda).
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We are very excited to welcome two new Master’s students to the APE Group. Desirée and Sandra will be working within the Comparative Human and Ape Technology (CHAT) Project.
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Dr Jake Funkhouser joins the APE Group as a new postdoctoral researcher after recently finishing his PhD at the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St Louis. Jake will be working on the Comparative Human and Ape Technology (CHAT) Project.
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We are extremely proud of Henry Camara, Nimba Chimpanzee Project research team lead, for winning the Charles Southwick Conservation Education Commitment Award of the International Primatological Society (IPS).
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The western chimpanzees of Guinea are threatened by mining activities. Using a novel genetic approach, APE Group members have collected information on population size and community structure to provide an important baseline to assess the impact of mining.
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In a recent article, Kathelijne Koops and co-authors comment on the article “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten in Physics of Life Reviews.
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New paper out in Scientific Reports on the evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration. Great job by lead author Alex Mearing who published this as a Master’s student!
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Two new Ph.D. students join the APE Group! A big welcome to Lara Zanutto and Ellen Soeters. Lara and Ellen join the Comparative Human and Ape Technology (CHAT) Project to work on bonobos and BaYaka foragers in the Congo basin forest.
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New paper published in the American Journal of Primatology led by APE Group collaborator Dr Maegan Fitzgerald on selectivity in tree buttress drumming by chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountains.
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Kathelijne Koops at the University of Zurich works to determine what makes us human. And she approaches this quest by intensely studying the use of tools by apes across sub-Saharan Africa.
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We are offering a 4-year PhD position in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Zurich to study hunter-gatherer material culture in Central Africa.
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Prof. Kathelijne Koops was interviewed about her recent publication in Nature Human Behaviour for CBC’s Quirks & Quarks radio program by Bob McDonald.
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Our recent publication in Nature Human Behaviour has received worldwide media attention (>380 news clippings!), including an article in The Times newspaper.
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We used field experiments to show that chimpanzees do not simply invent nut cracking on their own, but instead learn from others.
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