Ellen Soeters

PhD student at @UZH_en | Aspiring biological anthropologist currently researching the evolution of tool use with the @APE_Group_UZH ✨🦍🧠👩🏼‍🎓👶🏽✨ (she/her)

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

We had a fantastic symposium at the International Primatological Society conference on Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Material Culture

Super proud of @APE_Group_UZH members for their outstanding contributions 🤩🥳 @UZH_Science @snsf_ch

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

The 30th International Primatological Society (IPS) conference is off to a great start!! 🥳 @APE_Group_UZH united in Madagascar!! 🤩 @UZH_Science @JGISchweiz

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

The APE Group has a typical bonobo/chimpanzee-like fission-fusion social structure 😄 This foraging sub-group (or ‘party’) is saying goodbye to our emigrating female Anaïs! We so enjoyed your stay with us!! @APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science @Univ_Toulouse

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Such a treat to have the fabulous @LirSamuni visit and present her stellar research on chimpanzees and bonobos 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

I’m so incredibly lucky to get to work with this fabulous group of people!!!! 😍 (And Doggo, of course! 🐕‍🦺) Happy holidays to the APE Group! 🍕🙌🥂@APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Had a fab time culture conferencing with these lovely folks!!! (… definitely the bright side of postponed fieldwork!) 😄 Great presentations and great chats! 🥳👍@APE_Group_UZH @sheinalew @TheNudeApe @ellensoeters @Avmaj9

Thanks @CultConf!!!!

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

Wooo!! Go, Ben! 🐒🇿🇦🍅 @AlldaysAnd

[Russell Hill @Prof_R_Hill]

Great talk by @BenWalton10 on how crop foraging baboons in South Africa use space and manage risk at @PrimateSociety conference #PSGB2024

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

The honour of a lifetime to present on 20 years of chimpanzee research in the Nimba Mountains to the one and only Dr Jane Goodall ❤️ Huge thanks @JGISchweiz for organising this amazing event 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science @UZH_en

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

And that’s a wrap!!! 🦧🦍 Our 3.5 weeks great ape behaviour course was a super duper success with fantastic student projects! ❤️ @UZH_Science Such a pleasure to teach with our fantastic APE team 💪@APE_Group_UZH 🤩 @JakeFunkhouser @TheNudeApe @ellensoeters @Avmaj9

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

It was a real treat to host @KatarinaWarren in our Evo Anthro Colloquium series @APE_Group_UZH 🐵🤩 Exciting primate archaeology research @primobevolab and lovely opportunity to catch up!🍺🥘@JakeFunkhouser @ellensoeters @TheNudeApe @Avmaj9 @DrRobinMorrison

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

🌿 Exciting news! My friend @AliceLArmstrong just helped to launch @conservequity, a project committed to diversifying conservation!

Follow them for news on much-needed paid internship opportunities for young, black conservationists! 🌳 #StayTuned #ConservationOpportunities

[The Conservation Equity Project @conservequity]

We are the Conservation Equity Project, a newly established organisation hoping to diversify conservation by offering paid conservation internships at leading institutions to the next generation of budding black conservationists. Follow for our latest opportunities ✊🏾✊🏿🌎 🦒

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

We had a great time hosting @KJHockings at our Evolutionary Anthropology colloquium and loved hearing all about human-chimpanzee coexistence in Guinea-Bissau @APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

Proud of have started this journey with @TheNudeApe and that we are *officially* in our second year with @APE_Group_UZH !! 💖

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Feeling incredibly lucky to work with this group of fabulous people @APE_Group_UZH ❤️🦍 together with @ellensoeters @TheNudeApe welcoming @JakeFunkhouser 🙌 @UZH_Science

[Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group @APE_Group_UZH]

We are very proud of @ellensoeters and @TheNudeApe for successfully presenting their PhD proposals!!! 🥳🎊🤩 Huge thanks to all the wonderful committee members! Can’t wait to see all the cool research that will come out of this!!! 😀@UZH_Science @snsf_ch

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

A miniature (desk) forest is an essential component of reviewing literature, right?

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

Chimpanzee docuseries AND Mahershala Ali as a narrator?! We are not worthy 🙌🏼

[Netflix @netflix]

To live in the jungle you must fight to survive.

Narrated by Mahershala Ali and from the co-director of My Octopus Teacher, Chimp Empire premieres April 19

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Such a wonderful day with the fabulous @ejcvanleeuwen who gave a stellar anthropology seminar 🙌 followed by a perfect pizza party🍕 @APE_Group_UZH @ellensoeters @GoldsboroughZoe @JessieAdriaense @ForssSofia @DamienFarine @LucyMAplin

[Ellen Soeters @ellensoeters]

Kitties and plants, how else to celebrate a birthday as a PhD student 🪴🦍🐈

@TheNudeApe #birthdaycelebrations #piscesseason