Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.
www.taichimpproject.org
Taï Chimpanzee Project
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Here we offer a quantitative and comparative framework distinguishing combinatorial systems from simpler ones. We do so by integrating new work, demonstrating diverse meaning-bearing combinatorial signalling strategies in natural animal communication, into cross-disciplinary theoretical frameworks.
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One of the most thoughtful, carefully-phrased, pieces I have read on the topic: lots of good progress in recent years showing how we may have under-appreciated the structural complexity of non-human communicative signals 🧪
By @tozbu.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social & R. Wittig
🤗 Delighted that a dwarf #mongoose has made the front cover of #ProcB
📑 Their #grooming & #sentinel exchanges inspired the modelling of biological #markets in our new paper:
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We are deeply grateful to Sir David Attenborough showing his passion for the Taï chimpanzees, supporting them despite them giving him the "most exhausting time of his life". Happy 100th Birthday 🎂
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📣NEW paper📣
To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇
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Yesterday, at the same spot the foto was taken almost 40 years ago (see below), a group of researchers of the Taï Chimpanzee Project gathered to send b-day greetings to Sir David Attenborough.
📣 NEW PAPER ALERT 📣 Coordination challenges shape signal complexity in chimpanzees, but not in mangabeys. This paper is adding strength to the broader hypothesis that social complexity is a principal driver of the evolution of complex signalling. Read here👇
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Life in MoyenBafing gets pretty exciting for us too!
Come help us learn about these incredible chimpanzees and the wonderful MB landscape they live in!
RA positions in our field team from July, apply now! 🧪
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Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long-standing premises about exactly which language...
Abstract. Increased coordination challenges, such as in the negotiation of group movement and activity, has been suggested to promote communicative complex
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Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough !
We remember the time when David visited Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire with his BBC film team to document the behavioural diversity of chimpanzees. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour is a BBC nature documentary series.
We’re hiring Research Assistants with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project!
Help contribute to a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵
Apply now (open until filled, starting dates from July). More info👇or dm for Qs #conservation #science #fieldwork #primates 🧪
