Primate Paths

13/09/2024

A Wonderful talk this morning at the European Society for Human Evolution Conference, in Zagreb by René Bobe Gorongosa National ParkJoão Coelho and Paleo Primate Project Gorongosa Team! Gorongosa in Croatia today!
Trogle ManZé TátiasMaria PintoThomas PüschelMark SierVasco GalanteMegan Beardmore-HerdMelissa KateFelipe Martinez

19/07/2024

Tool skill impacts the archaeological evidence across technological primates:
https://nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67048-z
Congratulations Lydia Luncz Katarina Warren & all co-authors! A pleasure to collaborate on a great piece of work adding to the good Primate Archaeology literature! ICArEHB Gorongosa National Park

The archaeological record offers insights into our evolutionary past by revealing ancient behaviour through stone and fossil remains. Percussive foraging is suggested to be particularly relevant for the emergence of tool-use in our lineage, yet early hominin percussive behaviours remain largely unde...

11/07/2024

Congratulations to René Bobe and Bernard Anthony Wood for achieving the Top Cited paper for Evolutionary Anthropology journal, from all published papers in 2022-2023! Fantastic news 🥳
ICArEHB Gorongosa National Park ://x.com/primhevo

10/07/2024

What an exciting moment! Rassina Assane Farassi is about to give her Plenary Talk at the XX Congress of the Primatological Society of Brazil! Sociedade Brasileira de Primatologia We are so proud at Gorongosa National Park, and we hope you all enjoy learning about the Primates of Mozambique! Vasco Galante

05/07/2024

Another incredibly important publication led by Elodie Freymann on bark feeding behaviour and the potential medicinal value of this behaviour for apes. Elodie is on fire publishing her PhD papers at high speed - and I am so very proud of her work, and the work of all the collaborators who accepted her in Budongo, closely guided the field work and made Elodie's research possible in the lab: Cat Hobaiter Budongo Conservation Field Station Mike Huffman Daniel Sempebwa and all.

Check the tread with summary of findings:
https://x.com/ElodieFreymann/status/1809159930655408380

And check Elodie's paper here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10764-024-00445-3

The ingestion of bark has been observed across the animal kingdom and is well documented in free-ranging chimpanzees. Thus far, the best-supported hypothesis for the adaptive function of this behavior is the fallback food hypothesis, which asserts that chimpanzees consume bark and cambium when prefe...

21/06/2024

Super congratulations to Dr Elodie Freymann, the amazing team that worked so hard at Budongo Conservation Field Station, to Dr Fabien Schultz Ethnopharmacology Lab, to Cat Hobaiter for the amazing guidance and mentoring, and Mike Huffman -- with infinite knowledge about this topic. It was an honour for me to see this work develop & to be part of the journey. The article is everywhere in the world news today, and it is well deserved. It is important to spread the news in multiple languages, so that the science can be understood by all. 🙌🐵🌿

Estudo, que envolveu uma investigadora portuguesa, sugere que os chimpanzés doentes procuram plantas específicas pelos seus efeitos medicinais, nomeadamente antibióticos e anti-inflamatórios.

02/05/2024

And another publication on the Gorongosa baboons by Lucy Katherine Baehren is out. I love this piece and how Lucy revisited a classic piece of work and tested its tenets using our wonderful primates of Gorongosa National Park :) Congratulations everyone involved in making this research happen 🙌🌺

Research Article Open Access Conceptual Archaeology of a Temporal Place: Albert and Kessler (1976) Applied to Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus) Lucy Baehren1 and Susana Carvalho1,2,3 1 Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom2 G...