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… ________________________________ 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.