Laura van Holstein

📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate

@KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH @BulindiChimps @GMERC_TZ Many carrying styles were atypical to those of living healthy & sick infants, suggesting that chimps are aware of the difference... These carrying modes included draping the corpse over the shoulders/back, carrying the corpse in the mouth, by the head/neck or tucked in the groin.

@KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH Until now, ICC in chimps had only been documented in habituated groups via direct observation. But what about the many chimpanzee populations that aren't habituated? Using camera traps, we recorded ICC in 7 unhabituated communities, at *twice* the frequency of existing reports.

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 *Camera Traps Document Infant Corpse Carrying Behaviour in Multiple Unhabituated Chimpanzee Populations* A multi-site collaboration across Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼, Guinea🇬🇳, Uganda🇺🇬 & Tanzania🇹🇿 Now published in @Ecol_Evol Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…) we document a bizarre tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵(1/12)