New paper with Kokolopori Bonobo Research and Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in PNASNews – pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… - Kokolopori bonobos maintain clear and distinct social identities despite peacefully hanging out together for days and weeks at a time!! (1/n)

Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵 To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861 But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything

Holy shit. A lot of wild stuff in this new bird phylogeny. Most notably, their radiation of modern birds is completely unrelated to the KPg mass extinction. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

When MaudMouginot started on this collaboration with Martin Surbeck Kokolopori Bonobo Research, we thought it would just confirm what everyone already knew: male bonobos are less aggressive than chimpanzees. Instead we found more frequent aggression by male bonobos: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ivyQ3QW8S6D…

My latest story for National Geographic explores why bonobo males, surprisingly, are more often aggressive to other males than chimpanzee males are, featuring MaudMouginot, Michael Wilson and Martin Surbeck (Kokolopori Bonobo Research). nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

New York Times piece on MaudMouginot's comparison of aggression among Gombe chimpanzees and Kokolopori Bonobo Research bonobos: nytimes.com/2024/04/12/sci…

France24 also interviwed MaudMouginot about aggressive bonobos france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Here's The Guardian's take on MaudMouginot et al.'s paper on aggression in chimpanzees and bonobos Kokolopori Bonobo Research : theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Here's the Mongabay's take on MaudMouginot et al.'s piece on aggression in bonobos and chimpanzees: news.mongabay.com/2024/04/bonobo…

Doing ecological studies during a biodiversity crisis is difficult. In 2002 I began studying Marsh Tits in an ancient woodland to see how a functioning population worked. After 10 yrs I realised I was now documenting their slide towards local extinction: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, an effort led by Vivek V. Venkataraman, is now published: authors.elsevier.com/c/1j2qf3tz496Y…

Delighted to announce Elihuruma Wilson Kimaro's first paper from his dissertation research, demonstrating forest regeneration in the village land forest reserves around Gombe! Dr. Jennifer Powers Lilian Pintea Lilian Pintea Jane Goodall sciencedirect.com/journal/global…