Our new publication is out and offers some interesting (and creepy) insights for the management of zoo-housed geladas! Yes, monkeys kidnap infants sometimes! Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
@geladasbridges.bsky.social 🐒

Presenting 🐒 at the XXVIII International Congress of Ethology @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata, India 🇮🇳
@geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social

Presenting our research on gelada flexible communication and emotion recognition during post-conflict interactions at #Behaviour2025
in Kolkata (India)! 🐒
@geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social @behaviour2025.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out! We report encounters between wild geladas and free-roaming dogs in an unprotected area in Ethiopia, highlighting the behavioral adaptability of our amazing geladas! @ethos-research.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org
Free to read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

🚨New paper alert! 🐵 We compared yawning in geladas vs hamadryas baboons and guess what? Differences in the sociobiology of the two species seem to be reflected in the expression of the behaviour OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@ethos-research.bsky.social

🚨Our study on mutual gaze and facial mimicry in rhesus macaques and their possible link to joint commitment is out!! :)
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

🚨New paper! We found that in rhesus macaques spontaneous triadic affiliation after conflicts is common, increases with the victim-bystander bond and victim distress signals. This challenges traditional despotic-tolerant dichotomies🐒 free to read here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It might look like I’m posing but I’m actually desperate trying to identify the too many geladas in front of me 😅
@geladas_bridges #fieldlife

Last week we presented first data from our @geladas_bridges project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour @sie_etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo @TheLeakeyFndtn

Last week I had the great opportunity of presenting the work we are doing at the @EFP_2024 in Lausanne #EFP2024 !yawn vocalizations in geladas, facial mimicry and mutual gaze in joint play in rhesus macaques… and more 🐒

Kings and queens of the Ethiopian highlands 🇪🇹 @geladas_bridges

Pics by @bettapalagi

Just come back from a preliminary mobility to Ethiopia for our collab. project between @Unipisa and @AddisAbabaUnive !
A lot of bureaucratic stuff… but also lots of amazing geladas in amazing landscapes!
Thanks to the PI @bettapalagi and to Dr. Bezawork Afework!

Just finished a data collection for my PhD on the gelada colony at Rheine NaturZoo (n=106, the largest in world zoos!😱) it was amazing and I’m very excited (and nervous about identification) to analyze all the video and acoustic data collected! @bettapalagi @Unipisa @EthosLabo

It has already passed a month since I started my PhD with @Unipisa and @UnivRennes1 (@EthosLabo)! For the next three years I will work with my two supervisors @bettapalagi and Alban Lemasson to study empathy-related processes in monkeys! Wish me good luck 😬

I’ve been working for some months now at the Giardino Zoologico di Pistoia as guide/educator for visitors during weekends, a great opportunity to talk about the importance of zoos in Conservation & about Animal behaviour (& to work with wonderful animals)!! @EAZAFund

Talking again about our study on yawn contagion in mangabeys at the XXXIX meeting of the Italian Ethological Society!
The study:#SIE_Padova2022
@bettapalagi @VeronicaMaglie2 @AychetJuliette
@EthosLabo @Unipisa @ortobotanicopd @UnivRennes1 @DiBio_UniPD

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Do you want to know more about the social life of cows? Come to our poster (n 26) at the XXXIX meeting of the Italian Ethological Society!! #SIE_2022Padova #science
@bettapalagi @Unipisa @sie_etologia
@DiBio_UniPD @UniPadova @ortobotanicopd

Today I had the pleasure to talk about our study on yawn contagion at the European Conference on Behavioural Biology in Groningen, Netherlands 🐵
@AychetJuliette @VeronicaMaglie2 @bettapalagi

@ecbb2022
#ECBB2022 #animalbehavior