@maelmleroux.bsky.social ANR project #APELANG is going well! 🐵

In the meantime in Uganda 😍 with the #APELANG project on full speed.

I’ll let you enjoy these cute #chimp #twins 😚 captured by YijunYang 😌

#APELANG team is thriving in Uganda 🇺🇬😍
Look at that chimp 🙈

With a new year comes a new field season for the #APELANG team! Celebrating their first night in the forest 🐵
Welcome to the latest addition to the team @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social 😍
Looking forward to the next 3 years together !

Spent a wonderful week in Aurich with Simon Townsend and Katie Slocombe to talk about the next step of the @agencerecherche.bsky.social project #APELANG!

Stay tuned ;)
Ps: meetings in the river = best meetings 🏊‍♂️

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻

Clement and Sophie in the field

Chimp chilling on a branch

#APELANG little update from the field! Clement and Sophie are nailing data collection in Kibale forest! Lots of amazing videos of chimps doing chimp stuff! Also, they do communicate 😏😌
Pic by Katie Slocombe (left) and Sophie Kurilla (right)

Back from the field!
Didn’t all go as planned, but what a gorgeous time it has been! Super glad to see this #APELANG project started! An amazing team of 3 post docs and 3 research assistants collecting data in 3 #chimpanzee field sites in Uganda! Stay tuned!
Also, I am officially leaving X today!
🐵

Finallyyyyy!
Back with the chimps 😍
Sound on 🔊
#APELANG

Last day of quarantine!
Today is getting some work done in a very difficult, challenging field environment…
#APELANG @agencerecherche.bsky.social

Baboon

Blue monkey

Black and white colobus

Bushbuck

A little quarantine time at camp before being able to enter the forest. The occasion to appreciate the non-chimp folks 😌❤️
Baboons, blue monkeys, black and white colobus… and a bushbuck 😏
#APELANG

Let’s go! #APELANG
Leaving for the field for 15days to set up 6 amazing researchers to conduct fieldwork with #chimpanzees in Uganda for the next 3months.
I’ll try and document the trip here, and post cool(er) pictures to wish you all a very happy new year 2025 🎉