Midwest Primate Interest Group

Professional association founded for #primatologists practicing in the midwestern US. #MPIG2024 hosted by @nkuedu October 25-26. Keeper: @AnimalWelfarist

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

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#MPIG2024 will be hosted at @nkuedu October 25-26! Abstracts are due September 9th by midnight. We can't wait to see you all there!

You can register and submit abstracts here: https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

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Congratulations to the winners of our student competition! @KaleHawks won for their poster and @fland_ won for their podium presentation! #MPIG2024

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We hosted a fantastic poster session featuring research from undergraduate and graduate students across universities! #MPIG2024

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To wrap up the podium session, @papio_anubis presented a case study on inter-troop kidnapping & adoption in olive baboons. She reported about a relationship between a resident male and the adopted infant. Her talks presents the importance of reporting rare behaviors! #MPIG2024

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Next up is @fland_ speaking about morbidity and mortality patterns in wild olive baboons. Her preliminary results found a pattern of infant sickness in certain months, highlighting the need for further investigation to understand factors that influence these patterns! #MPIG2024

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@CMitsdarfer from @lincolnparkzoo kicked off our afternoon session with a talk on Japanese macaque location preferences during cognition testing. Regardless of breeding season, he did find that individuals had strong preferences! #MPIG2024

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After lunch we had a panel discussion with faculty and undergraduates on how to involve and support undergraduates in research labs. We discussed everything from how to make stats less scary, making close knit communities, and much more! #MPIG2024

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

Dr. Leila Porter presented on evaluating the nutritional content of insect prey consumed by Weddell’s saddleback tamarins. Her group collected over 1,300 insects! #MPIG2024

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Dr. Mitch Irwin (MPIG VP) presented on the diet, seasonality, and role of nutrient content in food species selection in sympatric frugivorous (brown lemur) and folivorous (sifaka) lemurs. He found that these species did select almost exclusively different foods! #MPIG2024

[Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project @mbchimp]

🚨Paid research assistant position with savanna chimpanzees in the incredible #MoyenBafing. Come work with us and help us get to know this amazing landscape and wildlife! Deadline November 21, costs covered & small stipend. More details 👉 https://t.co/teg7zLPhsp

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Day 2 of #MPIG2024! Our president, Dr. Katie Amato, started us off with a presentation on how human foods affect the gut microbiome of wild brown howler monkeys in Brazil. She found a significant, but small effect size of human food supplementation on gut microbiome composition🐒

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Opening night of #MPIG2024 was kicked off with a talk by this year’s Distinguished Primatologist, Ben Freed of @eku! His talk described the importance of effective teaching strategies to instill conservation values in college students in primatology & across disciplines

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[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

#MPIG2024 is one week away! It is not too late to register to attend (see the link below).

This year's conference is hosted by @nkuedu with a special tour of the @CincinnatiZoo to kick off the conference on Friday!

https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

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🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨

The abstract deadline for #MPIG2024 has been extended to Sunday, September 15th, by 11:59pm.

Present new research or recycle some from a previous conference!

https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

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Last day to submit an abstract to #MPIG2024! Submit by midnight tonight 🐒

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

🔔🐒 Abstracts for #MPIG2024 due TOMORROW at midnight! 🐒🔔

Please submit abstracts and register using the link below! We can’t wait to see you all at @nkuedu

https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

🔔🐒 Abstracts for #MPIG2024 due TOMORROW at midnight! 🐒🔔

Please submit abstracts and register using the link below! We can’t wait to see you all at @nkuedu

https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

🔔Less than a week away from our abstract deadline!🔔

Submit your abstracts at the link below by 9/9! You are welcome to recycle talks from previous conference as well 🦍🐒

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

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#MPIG2024 will be hosted at @nkuedu October 25-26! Abstracts are due September 9th by midnight. We can't wait to see you all there!

You can register and submit abstracts here: https://t.co/AiKMmKd8ZP

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

Executive board of MPIG!

[Jocelyn Woods @AnimalWelfarist]

Thank you to @MidwestPrimates for allowing me to be apart of the executive board and return to my primatologist roots once a year 🐒 #MPIG2023 was a great success!

[Midwest Primate Interest Group @MidwestPrimates]

A huge thank you to @WUSTL and @stlzoo for a extremely successful #MPIG2023 meeting! If you missed the meeting, check out our tweets for details on the amazing podium presentations we had 🐒 🦍