EFP News

The bi-annual conference of the European Federation for Primatology (EFP), which would be a joint meeting with the German Primatological Society (GfP), has been postponed from 2021 to

February 9-11, 2022 at the Royal Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, NL

To keep the flame alive though, we, as organizers, have decided to host an online seminar series in February 2021.  

​Please register via: https://www.efp-gfp2022arnhem.com/2021-seminar-series

​You will receive  further information for the Microsoft Teams meetings.

 ​For now, please see our exciting program below, and check the abstracts here

Jorg Massen* & Liesbeth Sterck (organizers)

*Assistant Professor, Animal Ecology, Utrecht University, Secretary General, Austrian Research Center for Primatology

 

 1. Charlotte Canteloup (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

 From whom to learn? Social learning biases in wild vervet monkeys 

2. Daria Valente (Università di Torino, Italy)

Similarities and differences in lemur vocal behaviour: a comparative approach

3. Dietmar Crailsheim (Universitat de Girona, Spain)

Assessing the sociability of former pet and entertainment chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by using a monolayer and a multiplex social network approach

 1.Vedrana Šlipogor (Universität Wien)

 Unique, just like everyone else? Integrative approach to the study of personality in

 common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

 2. Alex Mielke (University of Oxford, UK)

Replicability and reproducibility in primate sociality studies 

3. Jaimie Morris (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)

Genetic and morphological analyses of historic and contemporary populations of western lowland gorilla: A multidisciplinary approach for the conservation of

a critically endangered primate

1.Iván García-Nisa (Durham University, UK)

Investigating the contribution of communication to social learning opportunities in Barbary macaques

 2.Cécile Sarabian (Kyoto University, Japan)

From cognition & behavior to infection: primate responses to parasitic threat

3.Pooja Dongre (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Immigrants trigger novel food acquisition in a wild primate

1.Eva Gazagne (Université de Liège, Belgium) 

From the ground to the sky: Habituation, surveys, and areal monitoring technologies in primatological fieldwork

2.Francesca De Petrillo (Institute for Advanced Study of Toulouse, France)

Ecological variation in primate decision-making

3. Grégoire Boulinguez-Ambroise (Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity-Paris)

Infant-holding: The forgotten behavior in primate developmental and evolutionary studies

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 September 8 - 11, 2019

Last EFP congress was in Oxford, United Kingdom

" Our primate heritage, our primate legacy "

Organizers:

• Primate Research Group, Univesrity of Oxford
• Oxford Brokkes University
• Primate Society of Great Britain

University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University hosted  the EFP-PSGB Conference.

Spread over four days and multiple venues in an iconic city, the conference organized five excellent keynote speakers

and a full programme of talks, posters, workshops, and symposia, as well as a banquet in an Oxford college.

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Thanks to 270 participants, 5 outstanding keynote speakers,

numerous oral and poster presentations  the meeting was a scientific and social success !