Our new paper on yawn vocalizations in geladas is out on iScience!
Happy holidays to you all :)
OA here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our new publication is out and offers some interesting (and creepy) insights for the management of zoo-housed geladas! Yes, monkeys kidnap infants sometimes! Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
@geladasbridges.bsky.social 🐒
Our new publication is out and offers interesting insights for the management of zoo-housed geladas🐒 (yes it could be a little bit creepy)
We are so happy to tell you that finally our documentary about our project🇪🇹 has been released on YouTube. We hope you’ll find some time to watch it, to learn about our adventures and the wonderful work we are doing ❤️
Huge thanks to Alberto Alessi for making this possible! WATCH IT!
Presenting 🐒 at the XXVIII International Congress of Ethology @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata, India 🇮🇳
@geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social
Presenting our research on gelada flexible communication and emotion recognition during post-conflict interactions at #Behaviour2025
in Kolkata (India)! 🐒
@geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social @behaviour2025.bsky.social
Latest research from our project! 🐒🐕
It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée:
www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...
A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi:
unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...
We are also working on zoo-housed groups of geladas, check out this new paper :)
Talking about our latest research on The Conversation! 🐒
Check out this video on our new research! 🔊🐒
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It’s finally out!! Our new study shows that wild geladas seem to recognize prosocial vocal affiliation to victims of aggression! A key insight into the evolution of empathy in primates 🔊🐒 @geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Life on the field 🐒
With great joy and surprise, we received more donations, and we wasted no time! Today, we could donate school supplies to the 76 students of Godo Elem. School, where many of our friends and "field assistants" study. A perfect way to end an unforgettable year in Ethiopia❤️
A thoughtful gelada under the wind of the Ethiopian highland
Pic by @bettapalagi
Just the time to arrive in Ethiopia and tomorrow our project PI @bettapalagi will give a seminar at the Addis Ababa University about primate sociality 🐒
@Dip_Bio_Unipi
@TheLeakeyFndtn
It might look like I’m posing but I’m actually desperate trying to identify the too many geladas in front of me 😅
@geladas_bridges #fieldlife
We finally delivered the first part of the materials for the schools of Debre Libanos purchased thanks to the donations of many of you 📚It was a day filled with joy and strong emotions. Your generosity and trust mean a lot to us! For more info and pics, see our Ig/Fb pages
We are back on the field🐒 already facing the many challenges of field life! But as geladas do… we also quickly adapt!
@TheLeakeyFndtn @Dip_Bio_Unipi @EthosLabo
🚨 Presenting our new publicationon @IntJPrimatology at the conference of the Italian Society for Zoology (UZI) in Pisa! 🐒 @TheLeakeyFndtn geladas and baboons interspecies interactions!
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
A congress with (also) gelada gadgets, that’s what we like 😎
Italian Society of Zoology, 83rd conference, University of Pisa (designed by Fosca Mastrandrea
Last week we presented first data from our @geladas_bridges project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour @sie_etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo @TheLeakeyFndtn
Can’t wait to be there to meet colleagues and friends and present the fiiiirst results from our project!🐒
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🚨 Exciting news! The first paper from our project out in @IntJPrimatology 🐒 We report positive interspecies interactions between tolerant geladas and olive baboons in an unprotected area in Ethiopia 🫱🏾🫲🏼@TheLeakeyFndtn @EthosLabo Full story here:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Missing life on the field while planning our next data collection!
Stay tuned 🐒
#research #primatology
@TheLeakeyFndtn
Thanks to all the people who came yesterday to know about our project 🐒 and who helped us with the fundraising 👫 (check previous posts to know more)
We thank Equitiamo for hosting us in such a beautiful location in San Rossore (Pisa)
@TheLeakeyFndtn
And remember to leave a message indicating the purpose of the donation (something like “Donation for schools” is enough for @GalottiAlice ) ❤️
Here the link if easier than QR code, for those using PayPal:
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We have already collected almost 600€!! Huge thanks to all friends and colleagues. Please help us and ask for any info. Every penny counts! 🫶🏾
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