EFP 2026

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Panathénées room - MSH-SudSymposium 5

Human-primate co-existence

Chairs: TBC

• S5-01 - Primate exaptation to anthropogenic environments
  Sofia FORSS (Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• S5-02 - Cultural stone-play and stone-tool use in long-tailed macaques living in anthropogenic habitats
  Camilla CENNI (Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany)

• S5-03 - Cultural contexts shape human–capuchin coexistence in Brazil
  Patrícia IZAR (Experimental Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

• S5-04 - Living with urban fear: vervet monkey response to an evolutionarily new predator
  Benjamin ROBIRA (Dpt of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• S5-05 - Road use patterns by olive baboons on an asphalt road crossing Kibale National Park, Uganda
  Louise ROBINET (Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive UMR 6024 Équipe Éthologie Social, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France)

• S5-06 - Risk it for the ‘biscuit’: combining a risk-taking experiment with behavioral data to measure personality in semi-urban vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
  Valeria SIMEONOVA (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Animal Behaviour and Cognition Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands)

• S5-07 - Effects of female sterilization on social and sexual interactions in synanthropic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
  Gwennan GIRAUD (Research Unit SPHERES, Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium)

Discussion round

Auditorium - MSH-SudSymposium 6

Personality & cognition

Chairs: TBC

• S6-01 - Association between personality differences and dyadic cooperation in macaque societies
  Debottam BHATTACHARJEE (Department of Behavioral Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany)

• S6-02 - Assessing personality in macaques: a cross method validation and cross species comparison of behavioural observations and caretaker ratings
  Tieme DOLSTRA (Animal behaviour and cognition, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands)

• S6-03 - Curiosity in grey mouse lemurs (microcebus murinus): repeatability of exploration and links with cognitive performance
  Arnout LINDEMAN (Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology Unit, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany)

• S6-04 - Who takes the risk to forage? Testing consistent individual behavioural variation in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
  Charlotte CANTELOUP (Inkawu Vervet Project, Swart-Mfolozi, South Africa ; 2 Conserving Wild, Strasbourg, France)

• S6-05 - Multisensory communication and personality in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) using VerTIGo touchscreen system
  Vedrana ŠLIPOGOR (Institute of Microbiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland)

• S6-06 - Acquisition and use of social information in wild Assamese macaques
  Sofia PEREIRA (Department for Behavioral Ecology, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany)

• S6-07 - Ratings, reliability, and circularity: rethinking personality–cognition links in nonhuman primates
  Julia FISCHER (Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany)

Discussion round

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteCognition & social learning (2)

Chairs: TBC

• CS-06 - Tool use traditions in robust capuchin monkeys: diversity and ecology
  Tiago FALÓTICO (Neotropical Primates Research Group, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

• CS-07 - Sequential tool Uise in chimpanzees: experimental evidence for socially mediated technical strategies
  Saray PASCUAL-MOLINER (Departament d’Història i Història de l’Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)

• CS-08 - Stone tool use facilitates structured handedness in wild macaques
  Rohit NEGI (Technological Primates Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)

• CS-09 - Shiny reflective object manipulation in Gibraltar Barbary macaques: a novel hedonistic primate tradition
  Martin NICOURT (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)

• CS-10 - Do social tolerance, age and rank shape neophobia in two macaque species?
  Théo LEMEUX (Laboratory of Cognitive and Adaptative Neurosciences (LNCA), University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France)

• CS-11 - Behavioural variability in leaf-clipping in neighbouring wild chimpanzee communities
  Marine CUVILLIEZ (Ape Social Mind Lab, Institut of Cognitive Sciences UMR 5229 CNRS / University of Lyon 1, Bron, France)

• CS-12 - Play, objects, and social minds: a framework for studying triadic engagement in bonobos
  Elisa DEMURU (Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)

Kouros room - MSH-SudPhysiology, health, and disease (2)

Chairs: TBC

• GP-08 - Exploring microbial contribution to reproductive olfactive communication in wild tamarins (Callitrichidae)
  Alice POIRIER (Development of Olfactory Communication & Cognition Lab, Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, INRAE & Institut Agro Dijon, UMR CSGA, Dijon, France)

• GP-09 - Phylogeny, diet and habitat determine gut microbiota patterns of Mexican primates inhabiting a gradient of ex situ conditions
  Ella VÁZQUEZ-DOMÍNGUEZ (Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)

• GP-10 - Too similar yet too different: a comparison of parasite loads between varied white-faced capuchins (cebus versicolor) and black-capped capuchin (sapajus apella)
  Nelson GALVIS (Animal Behavior, Max Planck Institute, Konstanz, Germany)

• GP-11 - Parasite transmission risk at the urban human-macaque-dog Interface
  Laëtitia MARÉCHAL (University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom)

• GP-12 - Testing the dilution effect on the gastrointestinal parasites of a Bornean primate community
  Kenneth KEUK (Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan)

• GP-13 - Wounds and wound-tending behaviours: an integrated framework and its application to Central-African chimpanzees and beyond
  Alessandra MASCARO (Comparative BioCognition, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany)

Botanic InstituteCoffee break

National Societies’ Assemblies

Auditorium - MSH-SudEFP

Kouros room - MSH-SudGfP

Panathénées room - MSH-SudSFDP

Broc-CaféPaths & perspectives: connecting across career stages