Primate Research

passing along research and news in primatology and biological anthropology

[Sasha Winkler, PhD @ScienceSquil]

In print @AmJournalPrimat this month! My first empirical paper from grad school and a culmination of my MA thesis project. We looked at patterns of social and solitary play across the lifespan in 38 wild white-faced capuchin monkeys that were observed over 18+ years. 🧵

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Last 8 hours!!! Way beyond our expectations, there have already been an equivalent of ~$150,000 in donations. If we reach ~$162,000 we can purchase (the very expensive) medicine for 6 of 8 HCV infected chimpanzees - please donate if you can!
https://t.co/mHJUmYux6T

[Primate Research @prime8research]

✨🌻Please consider supporting our crowdfunding project!! ❤️‍🩹✨
https://t.co/mHJUmYdu4T

After publishing our paper about the long-term health effects on chimpanzees who were used in invasive biomedical research and became chronically infected with Hepatitis C virus, we ..(1/6)

[Robin Morrison @DrRobinMorrison]

New paper out @AnimalConserv🦍📈 We examined demographic patterns and population trends across the more than 50 years @SavingGorillas have been studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda https://t.co/Kax1zroQwY @FelixNd7 @ve_vecellio

[Luca Pozzi (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 @PozziLab]

Who doesn't like to sleep? But *where* to sleep is the real question. New paper now published online on @AmJBioAnth on the effects of body size, activity, and phylogeny on primate sleeping ecology (co-authors: Malte Voskamp & Peter Kappeler) https://t.co/CqKNFjoyQM

[Primate Research @prime8research]

@GDezecache in this example, chimpanzees and gorillas may share cultural behaviors - they even observed young chimpanzees beating their chests like gorillas do (^.^) https://t.co/8HAVfrFBck

[Primate Research @prime8research]

@alecia_carter @Matilda_Brindle ah, bummer... japan is a little far (^.^;)

[Primate Research @prime8research]

We reached our goal to provide HCV treatment to one chimpanzee, Yukio! ㊗️ Please consider donating to help us reach the second goal for chimpanzee Akina 🙏🙏

https://t.co/mHJUmYux6T

[京都大学野生動物研究センターWildlife Research Center @WRC_KyotoUniv]

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[MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @MPI_animalbehav]

The birth of a new baby is a joyous event for parents and😀🎉🥂....siblings?

It's not just humans who have trouble welcoming a new brother or sister. A new study @eLife shows that the birth of a sibling triggers long-lasting stress in young bonobos 1/2

https://t.co/cKPfBi2tJV

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Crowdfunding has started! Link here (unfortunately all in Japanese, but donations are accepted from anywhere!):

https://t.co/mHJUmYdu4T

Please share! 🌻

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection reduces the lifespan of chimpanzees used in biomedical research | Biology Letters @royalsociety @WRC_KyotoUniv @KyotoU_News

https://t.co/iuRrqWh3cH

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Currently, treatment is available for chronic HCV infection, however, it is too expensive to be administered widely to chimpanzees. The authors will start crowdfunding to provide this medicine to HCV carriers at Kumamoto Sanctuary. Please support them - link coming soon!! 💞

[Primate Research @prime8research]

sent in Japanese, depending on the donation. @WRC_KyotoUniv @KyotoU_News @JpnMonkeyCentre

*If you have any questions, please send me a message here on Twitter!

Thank you for your consideration! And please share this post 💞

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[Primate Research @prime8research]

✨🌻Please consider supporting our crowdfunding project!! ❤️‍🩹✨
https://t.co/mHJUmYdu4T

After publishing our paper about the long-term health effects on chimpanzees who were used in invasive biomedical research and became chronically infected with Hepatitis C virus, we ..(1/6)

[Primate Research @prime8research]

* Sign up to the @READYFOR_cf website is necessary to donate, and any credit card should work.

* Unfortunately, we are not able to send a thank-you present abroad. However, a thank-you email, reports, pictures and/or videos about the chimpanzees will be ..(5/6)

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Looking at sexual swellings, behavior and hormones, the authors found that female bonobos disperse at an early pubertal stage before sexual maturation (ovulatory signs ~1-2 years after dispersal), which may provide benefits when settling into a new group

https://t.co/uW8KbXp7Ps

[Primate Research @prime8research]

The function of a chimpanzee exaggerated loud scratch gesture depends on the community and social context during grooming

https://t.co/dd6DBGAvH5

[Primate Research @prime8research]

Most chimpanzee greetings are directed toward adult males, so it's nice to see the focus on females in this new paper! 👋 Between females at Mahale, 42% of greetings were tactile or gestural greetings, not vocalizations (pant grunts)

https://t.co/kj33p2QDDJ