Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979. Follow us: @taichimpproject.bsky.social
Lyon, France
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Here, we offer a quantitative and comparative framework distinguishing combinatorial systems from simpler ones. We do so by integrating new work, demonstrating diverse meaning-bearing combinatorial signalling strategies in natural animal communication.
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To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…...
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Congratulations to Dr. Mathieu Malherbe for successfully defending his PhD on Cultural Variability and Cultural Loss in Taï Chimpanzees" today at the University of Leipzig. All the best for the future career 🎉🎉🎉
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📢Job alert 📢
Come and join the @TaiChimpProject as camp manager. Two years job with a possible prolongation for 3rd year. Join a vibrant research project in the middle of the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire.
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/IR…
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📢 JOB alert 📢 soon we will open applications for a new camp manager @TaiChimpProject. Starting January 1, 2026, the job is for 2 years with 1 year prolongation possibility in the middle of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Please stay tuned and RT
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The IRL ChiMP4IC will be led by Unit Director Inza Koné and Scientific Director, Roman Wittig, Director @TaiChimpProject here with the delegation of @CNRS and members of th IRL
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Congratulations to Auriane Le Floch, who successfully completed her viva on Wednesday at the University of Neuchatel, in co-tutelle with University of Lyon 1. Well done Dr. Le Floch and best wishes for the next steps.
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Thanks to Derry Taylor and Antoine Valet the Taï Chimpanzee Project was represented at the International Ethological Conference 2025 in Kolkata, India. Job well done ...
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We received the sad news that our colleague Agustin K. Basabose passed away. He was an inspiration for many of us. RIP youtu.be/UK2VXJkOMT8?si=13PG…
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New video on the TCP YouTube channel: talk during the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on "Is learning from knowledgeables others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees"
youtu.be/x3uOJxIg1Hs?si=6G4t…
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Today, our collaborator and friend, Inza Kone, DG of CSRS en Côte d'Ivoire and DU of the new IRL Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures was awarded the Ivorian National Prize for Excellence in Research. Congratulations and well deserved.
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News coverage of our paper on Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees:
Male chimps ask for sex in different 'dialects'
doi: 10.1126/science.zmq0xon
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Congratulations to Oscar Nodé-Langlois for successfully defending his PhD project on "peering to facilitate social learning in wild chimpanzees" yesterday in the amphitheater of the ISC. Well done Dr. Oscar
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Congratulations to Dr. Eléonore Rolland, who has successfully defended her PhD project today about "Attachment and Mothering Styles in wild chimpanzees". Newest doctor at the @TaiChimpProject and the @ISC_MJ and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
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Leaving the forest and returning to Abidjan after two weeks of visiting the project and the chimpanzees. On the way out I had meetings in Guleako, Taï and I met old friends in Ponan. Thanks to all who made this visit a success.
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Day 3 of quarantine: discussing science and project management. Also trying to catch up with the news from the forest: newborn chimps, new alphas, who befriended whom, who got injured when ... all news exchanged in North Camp.
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Day 3 of quarantine: discussing science and project management, preparing the next steps. Also trying to catch up with news from the forest: newborn chimps, new alphas, intergroup encounters, new leopard attacks on chimps, who befriended whom ... all info exchange in North camp.
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Great Video: Adult play in chimpanzees fosters cooperation: youtube.com/watch?v=tu-E3xEu…
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Arrived in the quarantine camp of TCP at midnight after an exhausting drive over the piste from Guiglo to Taï. We finally entered the National Park long after dark and were greeted by a young female leopard who would walk in front of our car for 30 min. Great welcome.
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New paper alert 📢
Chimpanzees playing bouts fosters cooperation in adults! @LirSamuni and colleagues from the @TaiChimpProject show how playing between adult chimpanzees predict cooperation between adults in the group. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.1…
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Today on the way to Taï: the car breaks down just before Guiglo. TCP driver Sidiki is taking care that the garage in Guiglo fixes the problem. Hope to be able to continue to reach the forest tonight.
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Arrived in San Pedro for the yearly workshop of OIPR ZSO about their work in Taï National Park. After 4 hour drive from Abidjan to San Pedro, TCP co-director Liran Samuni and I have lunch at the beach with WCF director Emma Normand before diving deep into discussions at the GIZ.
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Arrived in Abidjan. Next morning wake up calls by grey parrots in the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (@CSRS_CIV) at the lagoon Èbrié.
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Started this morning in Lyon to travel to Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire (at the border to Liberia). Mont Blanc greeted me in the sunrise to send me off. Great view ...
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Today in Japan: Bill Sutherland receives the Cosmos Prize for his achievements in conservation biology. 👏
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Chimpanzee researcher Eleonore Rolland of the @TaiChimpProject and the Ape Social Mind Lab @ISC_MJ presents at the Science Movie Festival in Grenoble.
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After 3 days and 28 talks across all topics under research at @TaiChimpProject participants enjoy the blue sky over Lyon.
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Tomorrow we start celebrating 45 years of research on and conservation of the wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park. People from everywhere, from Abidjan, Göttingen, Greisfwald, Neuchatel, Liverpool, and allover France are arriving, gathering tomorrow at the ISC in Lyon.
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📢New paper alert: The archaeological visibility of chimpanzee nut-cracking.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢Funded PhD position: We are looking for a PhD candidate documenting cultural behaviour in 4 neighbouring communities of Taï chimpanzees and investigating the effects of illegal human activity on their cultures. Start between Oct 1 and Feb 1. Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctor…
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Last night we said goodbye to our project administrator Jing, who will start a new job with new challenges. Excellent Ethiopian cuisine at Messob in Lyon. We wish you all the best, Jing.
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Yannik Becker presenting the results of the Brain Project's (EBC) scans on AF in chimpanzees during a flash talk at #efp2024
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Oscar Nodé-Langlois presenting part of his PhD project on peering and social learning in Taï chimpanzees at #efp2024
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Eleonore Rolland presenting her study on attachment in Taï chimpanzees at the #EFP conference in Lausanne
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Report of Business 24, TV station in Côte d'Ivoire, reporting from the memorial for Christophe Boesch, late founder of @TaiChimpProject and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, on April 30 at @CSRS_CIV
youtu.be/awxVgFWqemw
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A second memorial for the late Christophe Boesch, founder of @TaiChimpProject and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation took place on May 2, 2024, in Taï. Local and traditional authorities, actual and former staff members of TCP and WCF as well as the local population remembered Christophe.
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Memorial ceremony for the late founder of the @TaiChimpProject and the president of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Prof. Dr. Christophe Boesch, on Tuesday April 30, 2024 at the @CSRS_CIV. Christophe Boesch was honored as the father of Ivorian Primatology by Inza Kone (DG CSRS).
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Today meeting at SwissTPH in Allschwil, CH: former PhD students at @CSRS_CIV (1996 - 1998) : Jürg Utzinger, Inza Kone & Roman Wittig (left to right). Today directors of @SwissTPH , @CSRS_CIV and @TaiChimpProject .
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📢JOB ALERT - applications possible until positions filled!
We are seeking a Project Vet and Research Assistants @TaiChimpProject in the beautiful Tai NP with all its wildlife, especially the wild chimpanzees.
Project VET: taichimpproject.org/_files/u…
RAs: taichimpproject.org/_files/u…
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📢JOB ALERT📢
We are seeking a PROJECT VETERINARIAN and RESEARCH ASSISTANTS to join us at @TaiChimpProject in the beautiful Tai National Park with all its wildlife, especially the wild chimpanzees. Apply now, RT
Project VET: taichimpproject.org/_files/u…
RAs: taichimpproject.org/_files/u…
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📢Job alert 📢
We are looking for a RESEARCH ASSISTANT to come and work with us at @TaiChimpProject for 12 month, collecting behavioural data on wild chimpanzees in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire. Please apply here
taichimpproject.org/jobs
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Today Dr. Soro Kafana, Université Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan Abobo, Ivory coast, visited the @TaiChimpProject at the @ISC_MJ in Lyon presenting the newest developments at the Station CRE in Taï and discussing the collaboration between the two partners. Thank you.
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Fond memories from the beginning of @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Director Christophe Boesch and his first cohort of PhD students @TaiChimpProject: Catherine Crockford, Ilka Herbinger, Tobias Deschner and Roman Wittig, together with first Department Secretary Astrid Eckstein at Inselstr.
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The Taï chimpanzees have lost their greatest champion. Christophe Boesch, founder of the @TaiChimpProject and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, has passed away, age 72. His dedication to the science and protection of chimpanzees is an inspiration to all of us. He will be hugely missed.
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PhD student Oscar Node-Langlois of the @TaiChimpProject is presenting drawings of the chimpanzees in the gallery La Maison MaoL in Paris from Jan 14 - Feb 2, 2024! Drawings are absolutely superb. Go and visit! Or check out his drawings on instagram: oscar_nodelanglois
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📢JOB ALERT📢
We are looking for a new Camp Manager to manage the @TaiChimpProject in Ivory Coast. Managing data collection, 35 local staff and international students (taichimps.org). PhD possibility optional. Start 1.4.24. Deadline 1.2.24. RT
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UM…
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This year @TaiChimpProject will celebrate its 45 YEAR anniversary. 45 years of dedication to chimpanzee research and protection. Thanks to all the ivorian and international researchers that have followed and follow the Taï chimpanzees on a daily basis. Stay tuned for more info.
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