Many thanks for your participation. No more suspense, I give you the answers: Picture tourist group 1: As you can see in the picture, there is a monkey lying on the ground with his head up. This is fingers. He is lying this way 80% of the time! Picture green group: There are 2 monkeys […]
New paper published by members of the Barbary Macaque Project
A new paper from our team has just been published in the journal African Zoology: Kaburu SSK, MacLarnon A, Majolo B, Qarro M, Semple S (2012). Dominance rank and self-scratching among wild female Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). African Zoology., 47: 74-79. Here is the abstract: Measuring rates of self-scratching provides a powerful index of anxiety […]
Where is Wally?
More interesting posts coming soon, in the mean time I propose to our blog readers to play a little game that everybody knows: where’s Wally? or Ou est Charlie? (For French speakers). The principle is easy, where is the monkey(s) in the pictures. Tourist group 1 Green group Tourist group 2 I will give […]
Pregnancy test
Pregnancy test As you might be aware, we are currently in birth season. However this year, we have got a quite strange birth season. First, the birth seasons in the previous years used to occur at the end of March, around the 20th. This year, the first birth in the tourist group occurred the 5th […]
ASAB Easter Conference 2012
In April, I was pleased to attend the ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) Easter conference at the University of Aberystwyth. Conferences are the perfect venue to be updated on the recent advances from several fields of research, to discuss your own research and get valuable feedbacks from experts, and to network with […]