🐵💥 After 2000+ hours of observing aggression across 189 zoo-housed bonobos and chimpanzees in 22 groups, we found that the two species are equally aggressive, yet differ in the distribution of aggression across the sexes ♂️♀️
Our study is out now, read more below ⬇️
Happy to see one of the final chapters of my PhD out now! 🐵🦠 We identified key covariates of the bonobo gut microbiome, including ecology, diet, transit time, social interactions and maternal vertical transmission within a large cohort of wild and zoo-housed bonobos.
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🐵 Always wanted to observe great apes?
🌟 This is your chance! Several positions are available to observe zoo-housed bonobos in the United States!
⬇️ See below for more information about the project 🐵🦠
Bonobos bully as much as chimpanzees—but their victims differ by sex, according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sgXciX
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Chimpanzees and bonobos differ in aggression distribution but not magnitude.
This resource encompasses 644 gut bacteriome profiles from 212 wild and zoo-housed bonobos with associated data on 104 host and exposome factors. Leveraging this resource, Torfs et al. reveal key influential factors of the bonobo gut bacteriome, such as lifestyle, diet, maternal kinship, and a strong effect of social contact.
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New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳
Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️
Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.
