It's hard to overstate the impact Jane Goodall had on my life, both in terms of essentially birthing my field, but also her deeply, contagiously humanist (for want of a better word) spirit.

I've never been starstruck in my life except for the two occasions I met Jane, where I could barely talk.

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Important new work (from Elisa Bandini,
@ctennie.bsky.social, @sofiaforss.bsky.social et al.) addressing an elephant in the room - how weird are our weirdest apes, and how is that skewing research efforts?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chief among them: Kanzi was one of our subjects.

We KNOW that he could process NADs in spoken English, so what gives? This is not to say we should base what we think 'standard' bonobos can do on Kanzi, but rather that if even *Kanzi* doesn't perform in this task then we must think twice.

Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich.
Deadline March 15th.