EFP 2026

Hall - Botanic Institute Meeting registration

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Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteOpening Remarks

• The organizing committee

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PLENARY 2

Chairs: TBC

• KN-02 - The arrogant ape: the myth of human exceptionalism and why it matters
  Christine WEBB (New York University, New York, United States)

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Flash talks

Chairs: TBC

• FT-01 - Are aggressiveness and sociability consistent personality traits in a basal primate model, the grey mouse lemur?
  Lena SEITZ (Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover, Germany)

• FT-02 - Ecological factors influencing object manipulation in Balinese long-tailed macaques
  Brooke THIRD (Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)

• FT-03 - Behavioural development in wild chacma baboon offspring under varying socio-environmental conditions
  Martin GOURDON (Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom)

• FT-04 - What do infants experience during carrying practices? Early sensorimotor stimulations in primates
  Camille NOZIÈRES (Laboratoire Éthologie Cognition Développement, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France)

• FT-05 - Ape Research Index (ARI): applications of archiving research histories of captive chimpanzees
  Siddharth GIRISH (Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Faro, Algarve, Portugal)

• FT-06 - Effects of stimulus novelty and socioemotional cues on curiosity in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
  Saein LEE (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

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PARALLEL SESSIONS

Auditorium - MSH-SudSymposium 1

Ilithology: the comparative study of birth

Chairs: TBC

• S1-01 - The study of birth across species and its implications for animal minds
  Christine WEBB (Department of Environmental / Animal Studies, New York University, New York, USA)

• S1-02 - Comparative evidence for the gradual obstetric compromise hypothesis
  Nicole M. WEBB (Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)

• S1-03 - Is the pelvic-floor of tailed primates comparable to that of modern humans? An anatomical study of five non-human primates testing the pelvic floor hypothesis
  Pierre FREMONDIERE (ADES UMR 7268, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France)

• S1-04 - Humans are not unique in having complicated births: a comparative analysis of primate cephalopelvic fit
  Lia BETTI (Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom)

• S1-05 - Humans are not exceptional: birth complications and associated mortality are common among placental mammals
  Nicole D.S. GRUNSTRA (Dept. Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)

• S1-06 - “Tight Squeeze”: parturitional behaviours and the obstetric dilemma in nonhuman primates
  Alecia CARTER (Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom)

Panathénées room - MSH-SudCommunication (1)

Chairs: TBC

• C-01 - From calls to gestures: how common marmosets in the wild coordinate grooming interactions
  Filipa ABREU (Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany)

• C-02 - Beyond Language: investigating compositionality in the cognition of Guinea baboons (Papio papio)
  Thomas AUGIER (Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences, UMR7077, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France)

• C-03 - Information in the acoustic structure of male chimpanzee pant-grunts
  Montserrat BELINCHÓN (Departament of Psychobiology and Behavioural Research Methods, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

• C-04 - What can baboons tell us about the evolution of language? A systematic and quantitative approach to intentionality and flexibility in animal communication
  Elisa FERNÁNDEZ FUEYO (Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, London, United Kingdom )

• C-06 - Development and plasticity of multimodal communication during the joint action of German children
  Wytse WILHELM (University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)

Kouros room - MSH-SudCognition & social learning (1)

Chairs: TBC

• CS-01 - From emulation to overimitation: developmental patterns of human social learning in Agta hunter-gatherers
  Deepshika ARUN (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• CS-02 - Individual differences in and behavioral correlates of experimentally measured curiosity in wild sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii)
  Siti Nur BADRIYAH (Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• CS-03 - Does the emotional valence of prior interactions with a demonstrator influence overimitation in children?
  Rachel HARRISON (Anthropology Department, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)

• CS-04 - Assessing social influences on emotional arousal in free-ranging Japanese macaques using thermal imaging
  Miranda VENTRELLA (C4D Lab, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)

• CS-05 - Comparing wild and captive cognition: testing environment affects novelty responses but not problem-solving performance in chimpanzees
  Isabelle LAUMER (Development and Evolution of Cognition, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany)

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteBehavioral ecology (1)

Chairs: TBC

• BE-01 - travelpaths: Simplifying and streamlining animal path analysis in R
  Alison ASHBURY (Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany)

• BE-02 - Perspectivizing the nocturnal black box: nocturnal behavior patterns in wild Tibetan macaques
  Peipei YANG (Anhui University, Hefei, China)

• BE-03 - Nocturnal mating behavior in Tibetan macaques: the low-ranking male's path to mating success
  Tong ZHANG (Anhui University, Hefei, China )

• BE-04 - Variation in positional repertoire of Sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi) across three structurally distinct forests
  Pauline WAGNER (UMR 7206 - EA, CNRS-MHNH-UPC, Paris, France)

• BE-05 - Energetic evaluation of sifaka locomotion: A combined laboratory/field approach
  François DRUELLE (UMR 7268 ADES, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS, Marseille, France)

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