Eccellenza Professor at UZH Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 P.I. APE Group 🦍 Co-director Nimba Chimpanzee Project | Ape material culture | Conservation. She/her
www.apegroup-uzh.com
Kathelijne Koops
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📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩
The APE Group has a typical bonobo/chimpanzee-like fission-fusion social structure 😄 This foraging sub-group (or ‘party’) is saying goodbye to our emigrating female Anaïs! We so enjoyed your stay with us!!
It’s a Nimba baby boom!!! 🥰 Check out all these cute additions to (one of) our study groups in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea 🇬🇳 @NimbaChimpanzeeProject
Enjoying the 30th International Primatological Society (IPS) conference in Antananarivo!! 🥳 The Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group united in Madagascar!! 🤩
✨Check out this new publication✨
Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
Read the full article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Magical last day in Nimba 💚 I got to spend the afternoon with Kaija (named after my daughter of similar age!). 😍
Meet the newest addition to the Nimba Chimpanzee Project team: Indri ❤️🐕
Small but mighty!!! 🌟
@ApeBehaviour&EcologyGroup
I'd apply in a heartbeat if I could. Most creative (!) project proposal I've ever read, brilliant fieldwork opportunities, and the BEST supervising team you could wish for! Apply, apply, apply!
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Tune into this awesome new chimp drumming study!!! 🧵 🥁 Featuring the fabulous Nimba chimps!
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour - Volume 7
📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social
@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪
Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Cat Hobaiter
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
Kathelijne Koops
📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social
@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪
Cat Hobaiter
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....
