Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Announcement at the British Academy

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

A rare sight at our present location, CrystalGully: a leopard mother with two cubs. Enjoy, and when you've done, visit us at chimpandsee.org and find exquisite sights yourself!

Exciting research by our former PhD student @aurianelf.bsky.social in collaboration with @zuberbuehler.bsky.social and Steven Moran. Using context as a proxy, changing the order of utterances of a vocal bigram can change meaning of the bigram in sooty mangabeys.

Great method to measure hierarchical organization in nut cracking, one of the most complex types of animal tool use observed till now. See how the chimpanzees at @taichimpproject.bsky.social are doing this. For videos visit our youtube channel www.youtube.com/@taichimpanz...

Measuring hierarchical structure across hominid percussive tool-use sequences Communications Biology - A new method for measuring hierarchical structure in sequential behavior shows chimpanzee tool-use is hierarchically structured and provides new comparative insights into...

NEW paper alert 📣
The idea, that tool use entails more complexity than serial behavioral sequences, is out there a while. However, proving such hierarchical organization and comparing it across tasks or even species was impossible. We present a possibility to finally investigate it:
rdcu.be/faxGa

#voxprimato #conference

🚨🚨 date limite aujourd’hui 🚨🚨 pour les inscriptions à tarif réduit pour le prochain congrès de l’@efp2026.bsky.social à Montpellier !! 🙈🙈🙈

Et vous avez encore jusqu’au 13 mars pour soumettre une proposition de communication. À vos claviers! 🐒🐒🐒

Do you care about primates, and want to help raise funds to support primate conservation, research, and captive care? 🐒We're looking for a Marketing Administrator to support PSGB's work doing exactly that! 🤩 See the News section on our website for further particulars: www.psgb.org/pages/18-lat...

Mary Leakey | The History and Meaning of the Discoveries in Olduvai Gorge YouTube video by The Leakey Foundation

Mary Leakey
The History and Meaning of the Discoveries in Olduvai Gorge🏺🧪
The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNI...

In this historic lecture, renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey explores the history and significance of the discoveries at Oldupai Gorge.

Well done Dr. Le Floch! Good cooperation between Lyon and Neuchatel ...
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social @isc-mj.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social

#CNRSinnovation 💡 La nouvelle lettre innovation du CNRS est sortie ! Laboratoires communs, start-up, brevets, événements... Retrouvez tous les mois les dernières actualités de la #valorisation et de l'#innovation au CNRS.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/newslette...

Rule-based sequences in sooty mangabey vocal communication Abstract. Investigating how non-human animals produce call sequences provides key insights into the evolutionary origins of meaning in vocal communication,

NEW paper alert 📣
Sooty mangabey vocal communication - sympatric species to the Tai chimpanzees. Check out what they can do! Fab work together with former PhD student Dr. Auriane Le Floch and our fab colleagues from Neuchatel in CH.
Rule-based sequences: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Ursprung des MPox-Virus entdeckt Forschende aus Greifswald haben das Feuerfußhörnchen als Wirt identifiziert. In Afrika gibt es weiter Ausbrüche.

Woher stammt das Mpox-Virus? @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social & @taichimpproject.bsky.social konnten Feuerfußhörnchen als Reservoir des zoonotischen Erregers ausmachen. Das Spillover der #Mpox von Nagern zu Primaten zu kennen, hilft, #Zoonosen besser zu verstehen. via @ndr.de www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Great work - congratulations to @aurianelf.bsky.social and the team! And exciting that Chapter 2 follows soon.

The Orphan Chimpanzee’s Brother: Who Speaks for Nature? - Prof Lee White YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

If you missed our talk on Friday: From orphan chimpanzees in Uganda to environmental leadership in Gabon,
@leewhitecbe.bsky.social shared his journey through Budongo Forest,the Gola Forest & the Congo Basin, & why science must guide nature recovery, biodiversity conservation & environmental policy

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

What babies’ cries really tell us – and why maternal instinct is a myth Is it possible to interpret babies’ cries in order to understand their needs accurately?

Almost 90,000 (!) readers now know what babies' cries are saying. Why not you 😏? 👇 (do not hesitate to disseminate!)

theconversation.com/what-babies-...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor

📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

The Amazon’s most valuable export isn’t timber — it’s rain Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of…

Tropical forests generate vast rainfall through “flying rivers,” meaning farms & cities may depend on ecosystems far away.

Even small-scale clearing can reduce precipitation, threatening agriculture, river flows & hydropower. In the Amazon, this rainmaking service is worth tens of billions yearly.

Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.

#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Hiring for 3 positions: Research Assistant, Field Research Coordinator, and Postdoc I am looking to hire 3 people into my lab this year. I am still doing the paperwork to get the jobs officially posted but I want to send the word out and screen potential applications right away. R…

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢

We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.

Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city

Details here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Group photograph of faculty and participants of the very first Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2014, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Risk-taking comes earlier in chimpanzees than in humans, study finds Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in the most danger in adolescence, so the expectation has been that chimpanzee...

Risk-taking in chimpanzees ...
Source: Mongabay
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HIOH researchers could recently show that sooty mangabeys can contract mpox by eating infected squirrels. The disease may present with mild lesions, as seen in this infant mangabey, but it can also cause more severe skin lesions or even be fatal. - Copyright Taï Chimpanzee Project/Ane Lopez-Morales

Fire-footed rope squirrels identified as a natural reservoir for monkeypox virus
A cross-species transmission event documented in Côte d’Ivoire provides new insights into the spread of mpox in the wild...
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Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys - Nature An outbreak of MPXV in sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire was linked to MPXV-infected fire-footed rope squirrels, providing direct evidence of interspecies transmission and indicating risk for zoonotic ...

Transmission of MPXV: from a squirrel to a mangaby - long-term observations and genetic analysis allow to find the transmission path in retrospect. Another good reason to invest into long-term field research.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper!🚨 Social dynamics of group bubble net feeding in humpbacks. Congratulations Éadin for such an awesome first PhD paper!! 🐳🧪🦑

The Science Community Grant is open for applications until 27 February. Funded by The Julia Rausing Trust, this award offers UK organisations funding to develop long-term partnerships between schools and colleges, and STEM professionals: royalsociety.org/grants/science-community...

Thrilled that our elephant gesture work got featured in the latest National Geographic PhotoArk edition @natgeophotos.bsky.social @angelastoeger.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social. Photo Ark uses the power of photography to inspire people to help protect at-risk species before it’s too late.