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BERG meeting, Wednesday 27 January, 16:00
by Pawel Fedurek 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a quick reminder that we have a meeting this Wednesday (27 January, 16:00) with Dr Patrick Tkaczynski (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Tai Chimpanzee Project) giving a presentation about his work on maternal effects on offspring development in apes (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 03-Feb-20, 16:00 Alexander Georgiev (Bangor university) “Zanzibar Red Colobus Project” 10-Feb-20, 16:00 Donna Kean (University of Stirling) TBC 17-Feb-20, 16:00 Stefano Kaburu (University of Wolverhampton) “Human-macaque interactions” (tentative) 03-Mar-20, 16:00 Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln) “All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions” 10-Mar-20, 16:00 Adrian Soldati (University of Neuchatel) “Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting” 17-Mar-20, 16:00 Jo Setchell (Durham University) “Decolonising Primatology” 24-Mar-20, 16:00 Drew Enigk (University of New Mexico) “Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees”(tentative) 31-Mar-20, 16:00 Maël Leroux (University of Zurich) ”Chimpanzee call combinations”(tentative) 07-Apr-20, 16:00 Maureen McCarthy (University of Southern California) “PanAf project” (tentative) 14-Apr-20, 16:00 TBC 21-Apr-20, 16:00 Guillaume Dezecache (Université Clermont Auvergne) “Social cognition in extremis” 28-Apr-20, 16:00 Erin Wessling (Harvard University) “Ecology and behaviour of the 'savannah' chimpanzees (Fongoli, Senegal)” (tentative) Best wishes, Pawel and Sarah Link to the meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.mic…> ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG meeting today, 16:00
by Pawel Fedurek 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a quick reminder that we have a meeting today at 16:00 with Dr Jessica Hartel giving a presentation about her conservation work for the Kibale Chimpanzee Project (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 27-Jan-20, 16:00 Patrick Tkaczynski (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) “Maternal effects on offspring development in wild apes” 03-Feb-20, 16:00 Alexander Georgiev (Bangor university) “Zanzibar Red Colobus Project” 10-Feb-20, 16:00 Donna Kean (University of Stirling) TBC 17-Feb-20, 16:00 Stefano Kaburu (University of Wolverhampton) “Human-macaque interactions” (tentative) 03-Mar-20, 16:00 Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln) “All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions” 10-Mar-20, 16:00 Adrian Soldati (University of Neuchatel) “Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting” 17-Mar-20, 16:00 Jo Setchell (Durham University) “Decolonising Primatology” 24-Mar-20, 16:00 Drew Enigk (University of New Mexico) “Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees”(tentative) 31-Mar-20, 16:00 Maël Leroux (University of Zurich) ”Chimpanzee call combinations”(tentative) 07-Apr-20, 16:00 Maureen McCarthy (University of Southern California) “PanAf project” (tentative) 14-Apr-20, 16:00 TBC 21-Apr-20, 16:00 Guillaume Dezecache (Université Clermont Auvergne) “Social cognition in extremis” 28-Apr-20, 16:00 Erin Wessling (Harvard University) “Ecology and behaviour of the 'savannah' chimpanzees (Fongoli, Senegal)” (tentative) Best wishes, Pawel and Sarah Link to the meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.mic…> ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Fw: Research Study Interviews - Great Ape Personhood
by Pawel Fedurek 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, You might be interested in helping out the student with her dissertation project (please see below). Best wishes, Pawel ________________________________ From: Phyllis Lee <phyllis.lee(a)stir.ac.uk> Sent: 19 January 2021 16:07 To: Hannah Buchanan-Smith <h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk>; Pawel Fedurek <pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: Research Study Interviews - Great Ape Personhood Hi guys, this was sent to me. Do you think we should circulate to BERG members? Best wishes P Phyllis C. Lee Emeritus Professor of Psychology Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK direct line +44 (0) 1786 467656 fax+44 (0) 1786 467641 mobile +44 (0) 7802 427132 ________________________________ From: Charlotte O'Neill <B00338473(a)studentmail.uws.ac.uk> Sent: 19 January 2021 09:22 To: Phyllis Lee <phyllis.lee(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: Research Study Interviews - Great Ape Personhood CAUTION: This email originated from outside University of Stirling. Do not follow links or open attachments if you doubt the authenticity of the sender or the content. ________________________________ To whom it may concern, I am currently studying at the University of the West of Scotland and I am contacting you regarding a research study I am conducting for my 4thyear dissertation. Titled: A Qualitative Study into the Classification of Great Apes as Persons. Results of this study will allow me to draw conclusions as to whether great apes should be granted personhood. I am aware that you have a Primatology department within your university, and I would greatly appreciate it if this email could be distributed among any lecturers, postgraduate or PhD students that may be interested in completing an interview for this study. Please find attached the Participant Information Sheet for this research. The consent form will be sent to any willing participants. I am aiming to complete the interviews by the end of February-beginning of March. Please take time to read the participant information sheet and contact me if you have any questions. Any willing participants can contact me via this email address or through my personal email addressc.s.oneill(a)hotmail.co.uk<mailto:c.s.oneill@hotmail.co.uk>to arrange a consent form and a date and time for the interview. Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing from you, Kind Regards, Charlotte O’Neill ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Fw: ASAB & ABS Twitter Conference Next Week!
by Pawel Fedurek 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, This might be of interest to some of you (please see below) Best wishes, Pawel ________________________________ From: Craig Roberts <craig.roberts(a)stir.ac.uk> Sent: 19 January 2021 12:36 To: Pawel Fedurek <pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: FW: ASAB & ABS Twitter Conference Next Week! Hi Pawel This might be of interest to BERG members? C ________________________________ From: ASAB Communications Officer <asabwebeditor(a)gmail.com<mailto:asabwebeditor@gmail.com>> Sent: 19 January 2021 11:54 To: Colin Hendrie <C.A.Hendrie(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:C.A.Hendrie@leeds.ac.uk>> Subject: ASAB & ABS Twitter Conference Next Week! More information about the conference, schedule, and how to attend. View this email in your browser<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.m…> Good morning, It's just one week until our first ever Twitter conference on January 26th and 27th! We have partnered with the Animal Behavior Society to put together the Global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference (#AnimBehav2021)<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>. We have finalised our schedule<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>, which covers two days of amazing animal behaviour research from ~130 presenters around the world and includes plenaries by Dr. Bibiana Rojas<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>, Prof. Bob Wong<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>, Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>, and Prof. Colette St. Mary<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>. You don't need to register for the conference - you just show up on the day, and can either follow the #AnimBehav2021 hashtag<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> on Twitter or watch the tweets through the feed on our website<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>. If you're new to Twitter conferences or to Twitter in general, here's a helpful video explaining how to participate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4onft-L3bg&feature=youtu.be If you have any questions about #AnimBehav2021, we have lots of helpful information on the conference website<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> and you can contact the conference organising team at animaltwitconf(a)gmail.com<mailto:animaltwitconf@gmail.com> Tweet to you soon! Kirsty Graham ASAB Communications Officer asabwebeditor(a)gmail.com<mailto:asabwebeditor@gmail.com> [Twitter]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> [Facebook]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> [Website]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> Copyright © 2021 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, All rights reserved. You are a member of ASAB Our mailing address is: The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Department of Zoology Cambridge, Cam CB1 0 Add us to your address book<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…> or unsubscribe from this list<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasab.us11…>. [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mailch…> ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG meeting (Wednesday, 20 January, 16:00)
by Pawel Fedurek 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a quick reminder that we have our first BERG meeting this Wednesday (20 January) at 4pm with Jessica Hartel (University of North Georgia) giving a talk about chimpanzee conservation (please find the abstract below this email). Please use the below link to join all our meetings this semester (I will resend this link at the start of every week for those who don't have it in their calendar): https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.mic…>  [https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/hashedassets-launcher/favicon/favicon-9…]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.mic…> Join conversation<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.mic…> teams.microsoft.com Abstract of Jess's talk: "Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda Uganda’s Kibale National Park is home to one of the largest populations of eastern chimpanzees. Historically, high poaching rates in the park have produced equally high snare injury rates in chimpanzees and other wildlife – approximately one-third of Ugandan chimpanzees have permanent snare injuries. Snares threaten the integrity of a chimpanzee’s daily life and health as well as their conservation as a species. Since 1987, the Kibale Chimpanzee Project (KCP) has been working in the Kanyawara region of the park to expand our knowledge of chimpanzee behavioral ecology while also implementing and maintaining many successful conservation initiatives that focus on this threat. Since 1997, our Kibale Snare Removal Program (KSRP) has deployed more than 5000 patrols and removed over 10,000 snares throughout the park, leading to a reduced rate of snare-setting in the Kanyawara home range and therefore a decline in the frequency of snare-related chimpanzee injuries. To complement this effort, in January 2020, we established the Chimpanzee Health, Intervention, and Monitoring Program (CHIMP), which is managed by an onsite Ugandan wildlife veterinarian. CHIMP adopts a One-Health approach to 1) improve chimpanzee health monitoring, 2) mitigate (anthropo)zoonotic disease transmission, 3) elevate veterinary emergency response to disease outbreaks and snare injuries, and 4) engage local communities in public awareness campaigns relating to chimp conservation. While CHIMP is still in its infancy, its establishment has been extraordinarily timely given the additional COVID-19 pandemic conservation challenges. All of our conservation efforts are in collaboration with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Jane Goodall Institute." We very much hope to see you on Wednesday! Best wishes, Pawel and Sarah ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG meeting, 20 January
by Pawel Fedurek 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a nice Xmas break and are ready for 2021! I am writing to let you know that our first BERG meeting will take place on Wednesday the 20th of January. We will be hosting Dr Jessica Hartel (Kibale Chimpanzee Project; University of North Georgia), who will tell us about her conservation work on Kanyawara chimpanzees (please see the abstract attached). We very much hope to see you all during the meeting. We will use MSTeams so you should receive a link to the meeting soon. Below, I also put a list of speakers for January - March. Date Time Speaker Affiliation Presentation topic (tentative) 20-Jan-20 16:00 Jessica Hartel University of North Georgia Landmines in the forest: Assessing and mitigating the threats of snares to wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda 27-Jan-20 16:00 Patrick Tkaczynski Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Maternal effects on offspring development in wild apes 03-Feb-20 16:00 Alexander Georgiev Bangor University Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (tentative) 10-Feb-20 16:00 TBC 17-Feb-20 16:00 Stefano Kaburu University of Wolverhampton Human-macaque interactions (tentative) 03-Mar-20 16:00 Laetitia Marechal University of Lincoln All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions 10-Mar-20 16:00 Adrian Soldati University of Neuchatel Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting 17-Mar-20 16:00 Jo Setchell Durham University Decolonising Primatology 24-Mar-20 16:00 Drew Enigk University of New Mexico Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees (Kanyawara, Uganda) If you would like to give a talk or to invite someone to present for us, just let us know! Best wishes, Pawel and Sarah ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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BERG
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

I think you may have sent a message out to folk this morning but I don't think it arrived.....I only heard through BERG bounce notification as a list owner. Did you use berg(a)lists.stir.ac.uk ? Can you try again, or send the message to me to send? I saw the programme and it looks absolutely FANTASTIC! Thank you, Hannah Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: <https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925> https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/257464 http://marmosetcare.com/ http://www.animalconcepts.eu/247animalwelfare/ http://refiningdogcare.com/ ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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For Auld Lang Syne, my Dear BERGers
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Message from Sarah Kraemer and Pawel Fedurek Dear BERGers, Pawel and I would love to 🎄thank you all for coming to the holiday party and making it a memorable one! 🎄I've attached the various screenshots and group photos we managed to gather at the end. One of my screenshots did not save, unfortunately, but I believe we are all represented in at least one of these! Special thanks Hannah, Craig, and Sabrina for sharing those screen grabs over e-mail or in the chat. 💚❤️💚 The powerpoint is linked here, for nostalgia and/or posterity. https://youtu.be/LvRBPbaV8XI [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LvRBPbaV8XI/hqdefault.jpg]<https://youtu.be/LvRBPbaV8XI> BERG Holiday Party 2020<https://youtu.be/LvRBPbaV8XI> Sarah Kraemer's amazing BERG PowerPoint - you will need to pause it to play at home for "spot the difference game" etc. youtu.be We are on the BERGe of a new year, and at least we have said good-bye to this one with a proper send-off! Letting 2020 Bygones Be(r)Gone, (these puns are getting more and more convoluted) -Sarah and Pawel* *Official 2020 Holiday Cheermeister* ❄️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA ❄️ [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.885EEwOGmj95bRIT6TXuLQHgFo&pid=Api]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA> Auld Lang Syne (with lyrics)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA> Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne As sung by Dougie MacLean on the album Tribute. www.youtube.com ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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For Auld Lang Syne, my Dear BERGers
by Sarah Kraemer 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Sarah Kraemer has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below. <https://stir-my.sharepoint.com/personal/sbk1_stir_ac_uk/Documents/Pictures/…> [https://r1.res.office365.com/owa/prem/images/dc-pptx_20.png]<https://stir-my.sharepoint.com/personal/sbk1_stir_ac_uk/Documents/Pictures/…> BERG Holiday Party 2020.pptx<https://stir-my.sharepoint.com/personal/sbk1_stir_ac_uk/Documents/Pictures/…> Dear BERGers, Pawel and I would love to 🎄thank you all for coming to the holiday party and making it a memorable one! 🎄I've attached the various screenshots and group photos we managed to gather at the end. One of my screenshots did not save, unfortunately, but I believe we are all represented in at least one of these! Special thanks Hannah, Craig, and Sabrina for sharing those screen grabs over e-mail or in the chat. 💚❤️💚 The powerpoint is also attached, for nostalgia and/or posterity. We are on the BERGe of a new year, and at least we have said good-bye to this one with a proper send-off! Letting 2020 Bygones Be(r)Gone, (these puns are getting more and more convoluted) -Sarah and Pawel* *Official 2020 Holiday Cheermeister* ❄️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA ❄️ [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.885EEwOGmj95bRIT6TXuLQHgFo&pid=Api]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA> Auld Lang Syne (with lyrics)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA> Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne As sung by Dougie MacLean on the album Tribute. www.youtube.com ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Bah HumBERG-- Holiday Party Reminder
by Sarah Kraemer 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Dear BERGers, This is your friendly reminder that Tomorrow at 6pm (UK time) is the annual holiday party!! The link for the Teams party can be found here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3aac34448fee7942bdabcc065540ad7841… If you have not already done so, please send in your ice breaker Photo to Sarah Kraemer by 12pm tomorrow! And participate in the pre-party quiz, found here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/skraemer42/berg-christmas-quiz-5fuhalhhnv Come prepared with your own: ✅Holiday sweater / hat / festive get-up ✅Libations / snacks This is the season of giving. If you happen to have a single misgiving, Dump it to Crumpit! See you all tomorrow! Sarah and Pawel E-mail for Pawel [Lecturer in Psychology at Stirling; meetings coordinator of BERG]: pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk E-mail for Sarah [PhD Student at Stirling; occasional coordinator of BERG]: s.b.kraemer(a)stir.ac.uk The link to add people to the mailing list or unsubscribe to these e-mails is here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.stir…> ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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