EFP 2026

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Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstitutePLENARY 5

Chairs: TBC

• KN-05 - The links between social and microbial ecologies: insights from wild primates and meerkats
  Krishna BALASUBRAMANIAM (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdo)

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteBehavioral Ecology (3)

Chairs: TBC

• BE-13 - Savannah chimpanzees use caves in northern Guinea
  Leonardo BERTAMINI (School of Biology, St Andrews University, St Andrews, United Kingdom)

• BE-14 - Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) use of a rock shelter in a savannah habitat: Dindefelo, Senegal
  Flavia PICCOLELLA (Dindefelo Biological Station, Jane Goodall Institute Spain in Senegal, Dindefelo, Kédougou, Senegal)

• BE-15 - Diverse prey and seasonal hunting in Issa chimpanzees from a savanna mosaic landscape in Tanzania
  Alex PIEL (Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom)

• BE-16 - Between-population differences in orangutan (Pongo spp.) social responses to fluctuating fruit availability
  Tom ROTH (Animal Behaviour & Cognition, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands)

• BE-17 - Can NDVI capture food availability in a semi-arid environment? A Bayesian field phenology framework from chacma baboons in Namibia
  Antoine LEQUEUX (ISEM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)

• BE-18 - Beyond omnivory: non-traditional isotopes reveal niche partitioning in wild chimpanzees and baboons
  Danaé GUISERIX (Archaeology, Environmental Change & Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium)

Auditorium - MSH-SudSociality (3)

Chairs: TBC

• S-17 - To stay or not to stay: how the social environment shapes dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas
  Victoire MARTIGNAC (Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• S-18 - Milestones of socio-emotional development and the developmental foundations of empathy in wild bonobos
  Marie-Laure POIRET (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)

• S-19 - Disentangling the contributions of maternal rank and male social behaviour on vervet integration post-dispersal
  Alba MOTES RODRIGO (Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)

• S-20 - Developmental and sex differences in sexual behaviour among wild immature chimpanzees
  Iulia BADESCU (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada)

• S-21 - Relaxed mothers, social offspring: linking maternal care style and juvenile behavior in capuchins
  Julia OMENA (Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

• S-22 - Rethinking maternal styles in human and nonhuman primates: A methodological application to wild chacma baboons
  Eléonore ROLLAND (University College London - Anthropology department, London, United Kingdom)

Panathénées room - MSH-SudCognition & social learning (4) / Tool use

Chairs: TBC

• CS-20 - The forms and structures of chimpanzee algae fishing
  Charlotte WILTSHIRE (University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom)

• CS-21 - What explains tool use differences between wild and sanctuary-living bonobos?
  Lara ZANUTTO (Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• CS-22 - Tool use in the pipeline? Cultural combinatory object play and its effect on tool use in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)
  Jeroen ZEWALD (Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria)

• CS-23 - Developmental drivers of tool use in children across cultures
  Ellen SOETERS (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland)

• CS-24 - Savanna chimpanzee social learning opportunities in the context of technological behaviours at Dindefelo, Senegal
  Andreu SÁNCHEZ-MEGÍAS (Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

Kouros room - MSH-SudHealth & Welfare

Chairs: TBC

• HW-01 - The sunshine vitamin: myth or reality of the role of vitamin D in Common marmoset`s behavioral changes
  Ruta VAICEKAUSKAITE (SILABE, Université de Strasbourg, Niederhausbergen, France)

• HW-02 - Zoos are places where humans and non-human primates experience interactions
  Audrey MAILLE (Eco-anthropologie (UMR 7206 EA), MNHN / CNRS / Université Paris Cité, Paris, France)

• HW-03 - Wellbeing in the wild: measuring welfare in wild primates
  Eleanor CROOKES (Anthropology, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom)

• HW-04 - Assessing environmental influences on the physiology of stress in free-living common marmoset
  Nicola SCHIEL (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil)

• HW-05 - Self-regulation and sociality in zoo-housed chimpanzees and bonobos
  Georgia SANDARS (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)

Botanic InstituteCoffee break

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteFilm, Closing remarks & EFP prizes