Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups. Study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #primatology #wildlife #biology #Science #SciChat

"Dominant capuchin monkeys donate to socially close and similarly ranked group members in a group service paradigm"

An interesting look at prosociality & oxytocin in capuchins! Congrats @matthewbabb.bsky.social 👏🎉

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Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups Scientists have recorded a wild chimpanzee group engaging in a 'civil war' in Uganda's Kibale Nation...

Scientists have recorded a wild chimpanzee group engaging in a 'civil war' in Uganda's Kibale National Park. A once unified group split, leading to coordinated attacks and deaths. The cause may be shifting social hierarchies. #Primatology #Primatology #News

Great Apes Match Each Other’s Laugh Faces with Surprising Precision A new study on orangutans and chimpanzees suggests the fine-tuning of facial mimicry runs deep in primate evolution

New research finds orangutans and chimpanzees match each other’s laugh faces with surprising precision — and the ability likely traces back 10–16 million years to our last common ancestor. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Emotions www.primatology.net/p/great-apes...

When Former Friends Become Enemies: The Ngogo Chimpanzee Fission and What It Says About Collective Violence A community of nearly 200 chimpanzees in Uganda split into two rival groups and descended into years of lethal conflict — without ideology, ethnicity, or language.

Chimps in Uganda’s Kibale National Park split into rival groups and descended into years of lethal conflict — no ideology, no ethnicity, just collapsing social networks. New research in Science challenges what we think drives collective violence. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Anthropology

Delighted to share the special issue “Frans de Waal’s Legacy: Looking Back and Forward” (#Behaviour, April 2026)
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Honouring #FransdeWaal, this collection reflects on his transformative impact on #Primatology, #Empathy, #Morality and #SocialBehaviour across species.

We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2026 admission into our graduate program—International Course in #Primatology and #Wildlife Research at Kyoto University. cicasp.ehub.kyoto-u.ac.jp/program/appl...

They said don’t name them. Don’t get close. Don’t see them as individuals.

Jane Goodall did anyway and changed science.

In City of Science: Jane Goodall and Her Legacy, Kristin Andrews reflects on why it still matters.

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April 3rd was the day Jane Goodall was born.

Now that she has passed, it has become the official Jane Goodall Day. A day to celebrate and honour her life, work, and, most importantly, her activism in support of nature and life.

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Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter#Apes #Biology #Borneo #Chimpanzees #Environment #Forests #humanity #Humans #JaneGoodall #Orangutan #Primates #Primatology #Rescue #Wildlife #Wildlifereintroduction

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars - Volume 8

New publication from our Dr. Ammie K. Kalan www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Galdikas changed the face of science and opened the world’s eyes to how similar humans are to orangutans and other primates.

28) Another obituary regarding Dr Birute Galdikas #orangutan #orangutans #primatology #primates
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Remembering Dr. Biruté Galdikas and honoring the legacy of the Trimates — three women who changed primate science forever. 🦧 #FounderFriday #BiruteGaldikas #Primatology #Orangutans #fyp TikTok video by For the Love of Primates

Remembering Biruté Galdikas and honoring the legacy of the Trimates — three women who changed primate science forever. 🦧 #FounderFriday #BiruteGaldikas #Primatology #Orangutans #primateconservation

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The Ape Culture Wars Are Not Really About Apes How a decades-long fight between primatologists says as much about scientific culture as it does about chimpanzee culture

The “ape culture wars” have raged for 50+ years — not over whether chimps have culture (they do), but what kind and how it spreads. A new paper maps the battle and argues both sides are missing hidden common ground. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/the-ape-cu...

The Jane Goodall Institute USA Remembers Dr. Biruté Galdikas for Her Orangutan Research and Conservation Advocacy Dr. Biruté Galdikas taught us so much about orangutans and worked admirably for their protection. Together with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Dr. Galdikas inspired many people, especially women, to…

Birute Galdikas, the last of the remarkable triumvirate of women primatologists, has passed. Like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she made major contributions to our knowledge about our closest primate kin. RIP
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Famed primatologist Biruté Galdikas dead at 79 | CBC News Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She was the last living member of the renowned primatologists known as "trimate...

www.cbc.ca/news/science... "The last of the 'trimates' alongside Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey" with major achievements not only in science but in conservation. #primatology

The Three-Room Apartment in the Primate Ear New research suggests the vestibular system is not one organ, but two distinct evolutionary modules.

New research on primate inner ears reveals a tripartite system, not a bipartite one. Gravity and rotation sensors evolve independently, changing how we interpret the fossil record. #Evolution #Anthropology #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/the-three-...

#News: Great #apes tease and prank each other 🤡😛🦍🦧🐵🐒 just as humans do. Incl. body-slamming, hair-pulling, waving objects in front of each other’s faces – new #research study finds #sentience #primatology #primates #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife wp.me/pcFhgU-7gR

W1 Professorship in Primatology – Tübingen, Germany | HigherJobz Apply for W1 Professorship in Primatology at University of Tübingen, Germany. Open faculty position for PhD holders. Deadline: 6 Apr 2026.

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Phylogenetic analysis of 100 primate taxa finds lethal and mild aggression are evolutionarily decoupled. Killing frequency doesn't track bickering frequency. Socio-ecological models need rethinking. #Primatology #ComparativeBehavior #SocialEvolution

Killing Is Not Just Fighting Turned Up A new comparative study of 100 primate species finds that lethal and mild aggression have decoupled evolutionarily — and that how often a species bickers tells you almost nothing about whether it kill

New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social

Finishing abstract submission for @efp2026.bsky.social
I'll present data and discuss the capuchin monkey's tool use cultural diversity and conservation!
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A 13-Million-Year-Old Jaw and the Origins of the Howler Monkey's Diet New mandibular fossils from Colombia push back the earliest evidence of committed leaf-eating in South American primates

A 13-million-year-old jaw from a Colombian desert just gave us the earliest evidence of leaf-eating in New World primates — and it belongs to an ancient howler monkey relative larger than any platyrrhine previously known from the Miocene. #Primatology #Paleoanthropology #FossilRecord

If you're attending @awesomecon.bsky.social this coming weekend come find scientists from @bioanth.org committee at booth 911 (Science Fair) to share and learn about #primatology, #humanorigins, and #evolution! Also check out our panel on Friday afternoon! @leakeyfoundation.org

The Bonobo Myth: Why the Peaceful Ape Story Doesn't Hold Up A new large-scale study finds that Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are equally aggressive — they just hit different targets.

New research: chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos. The real difference is in direction — who hits whom. The peaceful bonobo image may say more about sampling bias than evolution. #HumanEvolution #Primatology #Anthropology www.primatology.net/p/the-bonobo...

If you're attending @awesomecon.bsky.social this coming weekend come find scientists from @bioanth.org committee at booth 911 (Science Fair) to share and learn about #primatology, #humanorigins, and #evolution! Also check out our panel on Friday afternoon! @leakeyfoundation.org

My personal Collection of variously aquired and sourced fossil hominin and great ape crania 3d scans and 3d replicas.
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Grass in the Ear, Grass in the Rectum: What Chimpanzee Fads Reveal About the Origins of Culture A sanctuary in Zambia accidentally documented something strange about why animals — and maybe humans — copy each other.

A chimp named Juma stuck grass in his ear. Within a week, his whole group was doing it. Then he put grass in his rectum. They copied that too. What this tells us about the origins of culture is genuinely unsettling. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/grass-in-t...

What Chimpanzees Do With Crystals Tells Us Something Strange About Ourselves A new study tested whether our closest relatives share our ancient attraction to quartz and calcite — and the results are hard to explain away.

Chimps given crystals held them up to their eyes, sorted them from pebbles, and refused to give them back. A new study asks what that tells us about why Homo erectus collected quartz 780,000 years ago. #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology #Primatology www.primatology.net/p/what-chimp...