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André Gonçalves

@fieryangelsfell.bsky.social

Postdoc at the Indianapolis Zoological Society. Interested in primatology, cognition, anthropology, history, & comparative thanatology.

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André Gonçalves@fieryangelsfell.bsky.social · yesterday

Very happy to announce there's a new Evothan Symposium my colleagues and I have been organizing. Interested in how animals respond to death? Come join us! #EvoThan2026 #ComparativeThanatology

EvoThan@evothan.bsky.social · yesterday

📢 A New EvoThan Symposium is coming! Join us Sept. 14–15, 2026 at UCL, London (and online) for EvoThan2026: International Symposium on Comparative Evolutionary Thanatology. Come learn how animals respond to death and dying. Free to attend! Link: evothanatology.wixsite.com/evothan #EvoThan2026

EvoThan2026 Poster depicting a higanbana flower drawing at the center and surrounding animal drawings at the edges (leopard seal, horse, honey bee, dice snake and a gorilla. Topics including: " grief in animals , undertaking in bees, death-feigning in snakes, corpse carrying in primates, animal concepts of death, hominid burials & more". Free attendance. Website: https://evothanatology.wixsite.com/evothan
Jason GRIZZLED Bittel@bittelmethis.bsky.social · 2w ago

When it comes to geometric intuition, it'd been thought that there was a line in the sand between monkeys & humans. But baboons can do some amazing stuff when nutritious fruit snacks are on the line! By @krcallaway.bsky.social, feat. @cantlonlab.bsky.social 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/s...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

nytimes.com

Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 3w ago

The case for protecting primates centers on "preventing our closest living relatives from sliding toward extinction. This study adds a blunter argument. Where primates thrive, so do carbon storage, clean water, steady soil, the biodiversity of an entire region." #primates #anthropology #conservation

Protecting primates could safeguard entire forest ecosystems

Saving primates, such as monkeys and apes, from extinction could protect thousands of other species that occur in forest habitats.

earth.com

Ethological Society@ethoges.bsky.social · last mo.

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Can chimpanzees keep a beat? 🐒🥁 Brooks et al. report spontaneous rhythmic drumming in a captive chimpanzee, including tool-assisted patterns that vary in tempo and technique, highlighting flexible, structured use of percussion-like behavior in a non-human primate. doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Spontaneous Rhythmic and Tool‐Assisted Drumming Across Variable Tempo and Technique in a Captive Chimpanzee

A captive chimpanzee named Toon performed an unusual long-lasting drumming session using different implements (e.g., limbs and tools) and techniques (e.g., drumstick-on-drum). He drummed faster with ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Ammie Kalan@ammiekalan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

theconversation.com/why-do-male-... Here's a summary of our recent field work studying the accumulative stone throwing behavior of chimpanzees. Thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for funding this research!

Why do male chimpanzees throw rocks at the same trees for more than a decade? We travelled to remote Guinea-Bissau to find out

To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.

theconversation.com