Jonas Verspeek

post-doc at Antwerp Centre for Research and Conservation @APELAB2 • #ZOOscience • Fascinated by the origin of #cooperation

[ManyBirds Project @TheManyBirds]

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 "Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade" is now available in pre-print: https://t.co/MrGhV9JjOb and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

[De Morgen @demorgen]

Een generatie Britten overleeft als werklozen of ‘werkende armen’: laat dit een les zijn voor onze regeringsonderhandelaars https://t.co/650iR0EcDn

[daan laméris @dwlameris]

New paper on #bonobo #welfare! 🐵 We applied QBA to see how humans score bonobo emotional expressivity. Check out the study published in @AW_TheJournal and in the thread (1/5):
https://t.co/GnLEvfpnUB

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

New paper out! We constructed social grooming networks of 22 groups of zoo-housed bonobos, and investigated the effects of individual (age, sex, rearing) and group-level characteristics (sex ratio, group size) on individual social network position🧵 (1/7)

https://t.co/0JZdVjAu4y

[AmJournalPrimatology @AmJournalPrimat]

@JonasVerspeek ; @Jeronobo1
Bonobos respond behaviourally and emotionally to unequal payoffs in a token exchange paradigm #bonobos #primates #behavior #apes
https://t.co/uxReS59lp5

[Pralle Kriengwatana @b_kriengwatana]

A wonderful day of learning about the variety of #research happening at @zooplanckendael & @zooantwerpen !!!

Had a great time presenting our project @M3BIORES and I loved making this visual summary
#sciart

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

Very proud to see this paper come out about behavioral and physiological response to inequity in bonobos

[AmJournalPrimatology @AmJournalPrimat]

@dwlameris; @JonasVerspeek; @Jeronobo1
Bonobo performance on a pictorial emotional Stroop task #bonobo #apes #primatology #cognition
https://t.co/1lErEV6mgs

[APELAB @APELAB2]

@APELAB2 members represented at #EFP_GfP2022. Check out @Jeronobo1 @dwlameris @jonasrrtorfs in welfare session D1 (10.30-12.15am), @JonasVerspeek in cognition session B3 (4.15pm) and @NickyStaes in genetics session C3 (4.15pm)

[APELAB @APELAB2]

New @APELAB2 collaborative paper shows how friendship predicts dyadic cofeeding tolerance around a non-monopolizable food source in bonobos and chimps @NickyStaes @k_vermeulen2 @Jeronobo1 @jonasrrtorfs @JonasVerspeek @ejcvanleeuwen @ZOOscience_eng https://t.co/FFNC7lwKTq

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

@SharonRedrobe One defintion: Behaviours that are intended to benefit others, without the actor necessarily incurring extra costs to provide these benefits

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

1/4 4th chapter of my Phd is out in @PeerJLife
Adult bonobos show no prosociality: important nuance in the existing field of prosociality research in bonobos https://t.co/Sp7w91jPDR @ejcvanleeuwen @dwlameris @NickyStaes @Jeronobo1
@UAntwerpen @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

@ElseVerbeek Thank you! The very first step will be to get my results on inequity aversion in bonobos published and to defend my Phd. A future step will be to study ecologically relevant cooperative behaviors and paradigms in bonobos

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

4/4 Popular view of prosocial bonobo mainly based on food-provisioning of subadult subjects. Lack of prosociality corresponds to cooperative breeding hypothesis and suggests that proactive prosociality is not part of the self-domestication syndrome in bonobos

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

3/4 Using the group service paradigm for the first time in bonobos, adults did not show prosociality. Subadults provisioned group members at a rate much lower than reported for chimpanzees

[daan laméris @dwlameris]

Thrilled (and a little nervous 🥲) to share our new paper on attention in bonobos 👀 We examined how social and nonsocial stimuli influence the bonobos’ performance on an emotional Stroop task. Check the paper here: https://t.co/dqU6wvI12w

[Dr Heather Browning (Veit) @zoophilosophy]

Zookeepers are often told to use 'naturalistic' enrichment to improve visitor experience, but this study found visitors respond more to the behaviour elicited by the enrichment than its appearance - we should focus on what enrichment does, not how it looks
https://t.co/OX0sbQxIOW

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

Excited to share our new paper on time-lag of urinary and salivary cortisol response after a psychological stressor in #bonobos! Click to learn more about the importance of selecting appropriate time windows for cortisol sampling. https://t.co/NlDpmFC5S1 @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

Interesting work from our lab on abnormal behavior in bonobos

[APELAB @APELAB2]

Proud to present this new APELAB paper on "the influence of sex, rearing history, and personality on abnormal behavior in zoo housed bonobos". Well done @DLameris and the rest of the team! @ZOOscience_eng https://t.co/Tu02fK8JZ1