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Fw: Robin Dunbar talk
by Pawel Fedurek 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Dear BERGers, You may be interested: Robin Dunbar is giving a Zoom seminar today (5pm) about social evolution. Please see below for details. Best wishes, Pawel ________________________________ From: Craig Roberts <craig.roberts(a)stir.ac.uk> Sent: 09 February 2021 20:17 To: Pawel Fedurek <pawel.fedurek(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: Robin Dunbar talk Hi Pawel, Please could you forward this to BERGers? Professor Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford A Darwin Day talk: "Social Evolution in Darwin's World" Wednesday February 10th, 5pm Free on Zoom, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darwin-day-lecture-tickets-138923300331<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.event…> Thanks! Craig ________________________________ 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 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear BERGers, This is a reminder that today Donna Kean (University of Stirling) will be giving a presentation about her PhD project on the potential for cumulative culture in monkey species (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Looking forward to seeing you later today! Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 17-Feb-21, 16:00 Stefano Kaburu (University of Wolverhampton) “Investigation of the drivers of human-macaque interactions: a Coupled Natural and Human Systems approach” 03-Mar-21, 16:00 Laetitia Marechal (University of Lincoln) “All about that face: facial features as potential drivers for human-primate interactions” 10-Mar-21, 16:00 Adrian Soldati (University of Neuchatel) “Audience effects of chimpanzee pant hooting” 17-Mar-21, 16:00 Jo Setchell (Durham University) “Decolonising Primatology” 24-Mar-21, 16:00 Drew Enigk (University of New Mexico) “Social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult wild chimpanzees”(tentative) 31-Mar-21, 16:00 Maël Leroux (University of Zurich) ”Chimpanzee call combinations”(tentative) 07-Apr-21, 16:00 Maureen McCarthy (University of Southern California) “PanAf project” (tentative) 14-Apr-21, 16:00 Cátia Caeiro (Kyoto University) TBC 21-Apr-21, 16:00 Guillaume Dezecache (Université Clermont Auvergne) “Social cognition in extremis” 28-Apr-21, 16:00 Erin Wessling (Harvard University) “Ecology and behaviour of the 'savannah' chimpanzees (Fongoli, Senegal)” (tentative) 5-May-21, 16:00 Giacomo Melis (University of Stirling) TBC 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, Wednesday 10 February, 16:00
by Pawel Fedurek 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a quick reminder that we have a meeting this Wednesday (10 February, 16:00) with Donna Kean (University of Stirling) giving a presentation about her PhD project on the potential for cumulative culture in monkey species (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday! Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 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 Cátia Caeiro (Kyoto University) 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 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a reminder that we have a meeting today (16:00) with Dr Alexander Georgiev (Bangor University; Zanzibar Red Colobus Project) giving a presentation about his work for the Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Looking forward to seeing you later today! Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 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 Cátia Caeiro (Kyoto University) 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, Wednesday 3 February, 16:00
by Pawel Fedurek 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a quick reminder that we have a meeting this Wednesday (3 February, 16:00) with Dr Alexander Georgiev (Bangor University; Zanzibar Red Colobus Project) giving a presentation about his work for the Zanzibar Red Colobus Project (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday! Below are the other talks taking place this semester: 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 seminar today, 16:00
by Pawel Fedurek 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Dear BERGers, This is just a reminder that today (16:00) Dr Patrick Tkaczynski (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Tai Chimpanzee Project) will give a seminar about his work on maternal effects on offspring development in apes (abstract attached). The link to the session is below this email. We hope to see you all later today! 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, 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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