05.- 07. June 2024

Angèle, Marlen and Wytse are going to attend the 10th meeting of the European Federation for Primatology in Lausanne (CH).

April 2024

Our Ph.D. student Deborah Galeone sets off to collect data on Sumatran orangutans at the SUAQ field station in Indonesia.

13.- 16. March 2024

The team of the "Pathways to Language" working group attended the Gesellschaft for Primatology (GfP) conference in Konstanz, Germany.
Angèle gave a talk on "Individual differences and plasticity in the communicative behaviour of captive and semi-wild chimpanzees".
As well as many interesting talks, the programme included a visit to the Affenberg in Salem.

26.- 28. January 2024

Angèle and Deborah took part in the retreat for doctoral students organised by EVEREST: Evolution and Ecology Research School Tübingen.

January 2024

We are very happy to welcome two new PhD students, Deborah Galeone and Wytse Wilhelm, to our group.
Deborah will focus on individual variation and plasticity in communicative interactions of wild and zoo-housed orang-utans, while Wytse will assess the communication for social coordination of human children in large-scale industrial and small-scale traditional societies.

23. August 2023 

Marlen gave a virtual talk on nonvocal communicative repertoires in immature orang-utans at the International Primatology Congress in Kuching, Malaysia, as part of the symposium “Coordinated interactions in primates”

27.- 28. September 2023

Angele and Marlen attended the Protolang meeting in Rome, Europe’s largest interdisciplinary conference for researchers interested in language evolution. Marlen gave her first-ever plenary talk, titled “Plasticity in great ape gesture: from individual- to species-level variation”.

16. October 2023

The new semester begins! In WiSe 2023/2024 Marlen will teach lectures in “Primate Evolution” and “Perspectives in Human Evolution”,
as well as the undergraduate seminar “Primate Behavioural Ecology” together with Angele