Jonas R. R. Torfs

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[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

You are what you eat! Right?

We know that diet influences your relative fat mass, but still, people can have a genetic predisposition to be over- or underweight. And in bonobos, this is also the case!

Check out the study here and in the 🧵below:
https://t.co/ISBTAoTdCg
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[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

👀 Looking for a dissertation topic or research internship?
🐵 Always wanted to observe great apes?
🌟 This is your chance! Several positions are available to observe zoo-housed bonobos in the United States! ⬇️ See below for more information about the project 🐵🦠

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

🚨Looking for a thesis project?🚨

Always wanted to study the gut-vagina axis of zoo-housed bonobos within Europe? Join our lab in 2025! Contact @jonasrrtorfs for more info.

https://t.co/SXoeqkDWBB

[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

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Excited to share our large-scale study comparing social co-feeding tolerance of bonobos and chimpanzees in 16 social groups across zoos and sanctuaries revealing no species-differences. Thanks to all coauthors and to all institutes for hosting us 🙌

https://t.co/L1ug0z2Tm5

[AmSoc Primatologists @ASPvoice]

#DidYouKnow Body condition shows high heritability in zoo-housed bonobos #primatology Check out the full @AmJournalPrimat article by @jonasrrtorfs here: https://t.co/xAHNCz71Wt

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

Slim bonobos apperently have slim parents 🐵🤔 Catch one of the latest ZooScience (@ZOOscience_be) blogs, summarizing my recent study on the heritability of body condition in bonobos (available in English and Dutch): https://t.co/orS3dIhWsH

[AmJournalPrimatology @AmJournalPrimat]

@jonasrrtorfs Body condition shows high heritability in zoo-housed bonobos #health #primates #primatology #apes
https://t.co/iPGtbnebKu

[Hanna Bensch @HannaBensch]

Very glad to see a chapter of my PhD thesis and our new paper on #gut #microbiome of DMRS out in @JEvBio ! 🥳 🥂 https://t.co/is6DPXZwv8 #molerat #letsstartthesiswriting

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

@ZOOscience_be @UAntwerpen @FWOVlaanderen Many thanks to all the European zoos to host us for data collection, and of course to all co-authors for their help in different aspects of the study: M. Eens, @dwlameris , @Jeronobo1 , @JonasVerspeek , JP Guery, and @NickyStaes

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

You are what you eat! Right?

We know that diet influences your relative fat mass, but still, people can have a genetic predisposition to be over- or underweight. And in bonobos, this is also the case!

Check out the study here and in the 🧵below:
https://t.co/ISBTAoTdCg
(1/4)

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

@ZOOscience_be @UAntwerpen @FWOVlaanderen

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

@zakhiyapc The igraph package in R

[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

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

I would also like to acknowledge the help of all co-authors (@Jeronobo1 @JonasVerspeek @dwlameris Jean-Pascal Guery, Marcel Eens and @nickystaes,) and the funding I received for this work @FWOVlaanderen @ZOOscience_be @UAntwerpen (7/7)

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

Many thanks to all zoos that allowed us to collect these data throughout the years (@Apenheul @valleedessinges @Ouwehand_Zoo @TwycrossZoo Wilhelma Stuttgart, @zoo_wuppertal @ZooFrankfurt @zooplanckendael) and to the students that helped in data collection. (6/7)