Mélissa Berthet
@BerthetMelissa
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Researcher in primatology 🐒 and #AnimalLinguistics 🎤🙊 Titi monkeys & bonobos ❤️🦍 Postdoc at Dpt of Evolutionary Anthropology @UZH_en 🇨🇭 She/Her
Joined February 2018
Well, this place truly has become toxic and stressful, and it won't stop there. If you want more science, ethics, open-mindedness and kindness, join us at Bluesky! The community is growing and is just waiting for you😊 You can find me under @berthetmelissa.bsky.social
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Thanks to many collaborators, we got face images of lots of primates😊! If your species are not listed blue below and you have images of them to share with us, please send me DM or email! Green...need only immature images, Orange...need both adult and immature images.
📢Call for collaboration Do you have primate face images🐵? We are starting a project exploring the form and function of 'babyness' in primate faces. Contact us if you can help! https://t.co/uV8DiGVf7R
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some coverage from the @BBCNews about our new study comparing empathic tendencies of bonobos and chimpanzees 🐵🐵 https://t.co/7d9xEBLPOV
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Durham University finds that chimpanzees are as likely to console as the 'more empathic' bonobo.
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Join @Cornell for Kanzi’s Legacy, a workshop honoring the bonobo who transformed our understanding of interspecies communication. 📅 Apr 19 | 🕐 1–6 PM ET 📍 Cornell University & online Speakers include Savage-Rumbaugh, Matsuzawa & more! 🔗 Register: https://t.co/NF34LIaM5K
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Wild bonobos—our closest living relatives—communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new Science study. https://t.co/55kOq9spsH
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Les bonobos combinent leurs cris pour former des messages plus complexes. L’éthologue @BerthetMelissa explique @LePoint comment ces grands singes utilisent, pour communiquer, une aptitude considérée comme propre à l’homme. Par @cdurandparenti
lepoint.fr
ENTRETIEN. L’éthologue Mélissa Berthet explique comment ces grands singes utilisent, pour communiquer, une aptitude considérée comme propre à l’homme.
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The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study suggests.
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Researchers spent months eavesdropping on wild bonobos at a rainforest in Congo. Their research suggests the animals can use some features of language to communicate.
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Exciting new methods and results by Mélissa Berthet, Martin Surbeck and Simon Townsend: https://t.co/WulUhpauJ7
science.org
In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings
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Very happy to share our new paper investigating compositionality in the vocal system of wild bonobos in @ScienceMagazine led by @BerthetMelissa w/@kokolopori! @snsf_ch @UZH_Science @NCCR_Language
https://t.co/r6pIEczd9A
science.org
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum...
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New paper @RSocPublishing investigating the representations underlying bonobo food and alarm calls w/Nicole Lahiff @zannaclay Amanda Epping, Jared Taglialatela and Katie Slocombe. @snsf_ch @UZH_Science @NCCR_Language
https://t.co/TBNAFozRS1
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Non-human vocalizations carrying information regarding external events have been likened to referential words and are thus integral for exploring the origins of linguistic reference. Previous...
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"C’est inacceptable" : pourquoi une association de défense des animaux souhaite que l'enseigne Decathlon prenne de meilleures résolutions pour 2025 https://t.co/RRmnM0H2sX
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#VoxPrimato #EquityDiversityInclusivity A long hard but so essential and rewarding work, we're delighted to support @BerthetMelissa & @MaelMLeroux in their #EDI initiative with @EFPrimatology 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏼 Get involved, contact them!
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#VoxPrimato #EquiteDiversiteInclusivite un travail long et dur mais essentiel et gratifiant sur l'équité la diversité et l'inclusivité, nous sommes ravi-es de soutenir @BerthetMelissa & @MaelMLeroux dans leur initiative #EDI avec @EFPrimatology 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿 Engagez vous, contactez les!
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New paper out now! 🥳Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task:
peerj.com
Many of the complex behaviours of humans involve the production of nonadjacent dependencies between sequence elements, which in part can be generated through the hierarchical organization of sequen...
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#VoxPrimato #news Ce compte est silencieux depuis peu. Nous sommes allé-es chercher des cieux plus bleus @lasfdp.bsky.social ! ☀️ Rejoignez-nous! Nous continuerons à poster un peu ici avant de quitter pour de bon. Pour toutes les infos: https://t.co/EJKFdc46PX ou la page FB!
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My colleagues are looking for (german-speaking) participants between the age of 18 and 65 to answer a 15 minute online questionnaire about wood forests for a super exciting study!🌲🌳 Please spread the word ✨ https://t.co/5qlyjwvCgu
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Our new paper using deep learning to describe primate facial gestures is now online! Please give it a read! https://t.co/nfNasYh856
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📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition @JohnsHopkins - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: https://t.co/o0pQPas6Sn And here: https://t.co/Qq73pcK933 And in QT'd thread
🚨 PhD position(s) in human, nohuman primate, and dog cognition! I am thrilled to be recruiting one or more PhD students to join the new Comparative Social Cognition research group, launching next summer at @JohnsHopkins @JHUArtsSciences. 1/
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Pour tout ceux qui partent bientôt sur le terrain, une formation de 1er secours🧑🏼🚒🛟🚑⛑️ est disponible en ligne avec 7jours offerts 👇🏼 https://t.co/30KUVosSzD Merci à notre @BerthetMelissa pour la trouvaille
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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025. OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠 Deadline 20 Nov 2024 https://t.co/hMXkHATe6h Spread the word 🙏🏽
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