EFP 2026

29 June to 3 July 2026 - MHS Sud - Montpellier - France

Bandeau - EFP 2026

Wednesday 1st July - Morning

08:00-09:00

Botanic Institute Coffee


09:00-10:00

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstitutePLENARY 3

Chairs: TBC

  • KN-03 - Tracing cooperation across ape societies
    Liran SAMUNI (German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany)

10:00-10:30

Flash talks

Chairs: TBC

10:00-10:05
  • FT-07 - Does female mate preference change during ovulation? Insights from salivary hormone measures in wild vervet monkeys
    Maria GRANELL RUIZ (ECO-ETHOLOGY, University Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
10:05-10:10
  • FT-08 - Nipple manipulation and sub-adult suckling in a group of orphaned chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a sanctuary environment
    Claire MAWDSLEY (Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdon)
10:10-10:15
  • FT-09 - Guinea baboons strategically use punishment and partner choice to promote cooperation
    Rayanne MARTIN (CRPN, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France)
10:15-10:20
  • FT-10 - ABO blood group typing in primates and verification of a point-of-care technique for use in great apes and gibbons
    Natasja DE GROOT (Genetics group, BPRC, Rijswijk, Netherlands)
10:20-10:25
  • FT-11 - Gastrointestinal parasites of black lion tamarins (leontopithecus chrysopygus) along a gradient of anthropogenic disturbances
    Olga SZCZODRY (Behavioural Biology Unit/ RU SPHERES, Liège University, Liège, Belgium)
10:25-10:30
  • FT-12 - Humans and chimpanzees use the same plants to treat the same symptoms (Taï: Southwest, Côte d’Ivoire)
    Alphonse BI ZAH (Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire ;)

10:30-11:00

Botanic InstituteCoffee break


PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:00-13:00

Auditorium - MSH-SudSymposium 4

The levels of power: from individual behavioral strategies to systemic social inequality

Chairs: Eve Davidian and Daniel Redhead

11:00-11:05
  • Introduction to the symposium
    Eve DAVIDIAN (Evolutionary Anthropology, ISEM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
11:05-11:20
  • S4-01 - Voluntary servitude vs. revolutionary coalitions: when and why subordinates accept or reject rank-related differences and inequality
    Bonaventura MAJOLO (School of Psychology, Sport Science & Wellbeing, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom)
11-20:11:35
  • S4-02 - Intersubjective representations of dominance hierarchy in macaques
    Romain LIGNEUL (Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, INSERM, Bron, France)
11:35-11:50
  • S4-03 - The network structure of leadership behaviours among Taiwanese children
    Daniel REDHEAD (Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands)
11:50-12:05
  • S4-04 - Mechanisms of reproductive inequality in chimpanzees: a developmental perspective
    Leveda CHENG (School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom)
12:05-12:20
  • S4-05 - Maintaining the balance of power within animal groups through levelling behaviours
    Danai PAPAGEORGIOU (Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
12:20-12:25
  • S4-06 - Social status as a developmental process in wild vervet monkeys: beyond maternal inheritance
    Chloé VILETTE (Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada)
11:25-12:30
  • S4-07 - Dominance hierarchies are structured similarly in females and males across primate groups
    Lucas SPICHER (Laboratory of Cognitive and Adaptative Neurosciences (LNCA), University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France)
12:30-12:35
  • S4-08 - Fluctuations in hierarchical steepness: Analysis of temporal, environmental, and demographic variations in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
    Florian GUYADER (ISEM, Université des Sciences de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
12:35-12:40
  • S4-09 - They got great personality - individual differences in hierarchical behavior in Chacma baboons
    Tal KLEINHAUSE-GEDALYAHOU GOLDMAN (Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier (ISEM), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
12:40-12:45
  • S4-10 - The effects of dominance rank on male reproductive success in social mammals
    Dieter LUKAS (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
12:45-13:00

Roundtable discussion

Chairs: Eve DAVIDIAN & Daniel REDHEAD


11:00-12:45

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteCommunication (2)

Chairs: TBC

11:00-11:15
  • C-07 - Effects of risk and cost of misunderstandings on the use of stereotypical facial communication
    Peter CLARK (School of Psychology, Sport Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom)
11:15-11:30
  • C-08 - Emergence of individual singing patterns through rhythmic analyses and recurrence plots
    Marco GAMBA (Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Torino, Torino, Italy)
11:30-11:45
  • C-09 - Dual sound sources in siamangs generate rhythmic vocal emissions
    Lia LAFFI (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)
11:45-12:00
  • C-10 - Collective rhythm in non-human primate duet singing
    Silvia LEONETTI (Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy)
12:00-12:15
  • C-11 - When the foot replaces the infant: a case for communicative pretending in Barbary macaques?
    Clémence LOCHIN (Laboratoire Eco-anthropologie (EA), UMR 7206, MNHN, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France)
12:15-12:30
  • C-12 - Social influence on multimodal communication in a Neotropical primate
    Sabrina NASCIMENTO (Laboratory of Ethnobiology, Ethology and Conservation, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil)
12:30-12:45
  • C-13 - Communicative efforts to solve conflicts are shaped by relationship value, emotions, and risk in wild geladas
    Luca PEDRUZZI (Centre d’Etude en Ethologie et Cognition (CEEC) - U.M.R 6552, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France )

11:00-12:45

Panathénées room - MSH-SudBehavioral ecology (2)

Chairs: TBC

11:00-11:15
  • BE-06 - How a landscape of fear shapes chimpanzee foraging across territorial boundaries
    Noah ATKIN (Cooperative Evolution, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany)
11:15-11:30
  • BE-07 - Socioecology and the role of scramble competition
    Andreas BERGHÄNEL (Zoology and animal ecology, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany)
11:30-11:45
  • BE-08 - Rock with me: how social interaction shapes spontaneous motor tempo in Baboons’ stone rubbing
    Siham BOUZIANE (CRPN, UMR 7077, AMU, CNRS, Marseille, France)
11:45-12:00
  • BE-09 - Risk-taking in grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)
    Heike LAHUSEN (xx)
12:00-12:15
  • BE-10 - Risk-prone foraging and social-grouping in eastern chimpanzees (P. t. schweinfurthii)
    Harmonie KLEIN (Wild Minds lab, University of St Andrews, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, St Andrews, United Kingdom)
12:15-12:30
  • BE-11 - Interactional success: the use of repair mechanisms in East African chimpanzees
    Kayla KOLFF (Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany)
12:30-12:45
  • BE-12 - Approach me if you can! How social density, composition and behavioural state modulate approach decisions in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)
    Adam PROVIN (UMR7206 Eco Anthropology, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - CNRS, Paris, France)

11:00-12:30

Kouros room - MSH-SudEvolution and phylogeny (1)

Chairs: TBC

11:00-11:15
  • EP-01 - Evolutionary origin of Tarsius pelengensis
    Miguel CAMACHO SÁNCHEZ (iomE, Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
11:15-11:30
  • EP-02 - Demographic buffering of adult mortality in primates: evidence from a comparative life-history study across mammals
    Jad DAOU (Primate Behavior and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany)
11:30-11:45
  • EP-03 - Beyond pedigrees: realised relatedness shapes social behaviour in rhesus macaques
    Annika FREUDIGER (Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany)
11:45-12:00
  • EP-04 - Ancestral range estimation and population structure of Sulawesi tarsiers
    Laura HAGEMANN (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
12:00-12:15
  • EP-05 - Neither the Andean night monkey is entirely Andean, nor is the Caribbean night monkey entirely Caribbean: Phylogeography of night monkeys in northern South America
    Sebastián MONTILLA (Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Fundación Proyecto Primates Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia)
12:15-12:30
  • EP-06 - Cochlear evolution in primates: assessing the influence of phylogeny and functional requirements
    Myriam MARSOT (UMR 6282 CNRS/uBe/EPHE Biogéosciences, Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, France)

13:00-14:30

Botanic InstituteLunch