Chimp & See Talk

New paper: Nocturnal activity in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Evidence for flexible sleeping patterns and insights into human evolution

  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    The Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf) in collaboration with Dr. Nikki Tagg Nama (PGS Cameroon, Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp) have just published a research paper investigating the nocturnal activities of wild chimpanzees. Using data from camera trap videos annotated on Chimp&See and from the PanAf collection, the researchers have been interested in the influence of different environmental factors that could lead to more nighttime activities of chimpanzees and possibly disturb their sleeping patterns.

    After starting and curating the Chimp&See “nightchimps” collection, two citizen scientist moderators got the chance to join the project to get a different perspective on the data analysis side of Chimp&See. Anja has so kindly written up a blog post on the new paper so please go visit it here! https://chimpandsee.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-publication-using-chimp-data.html

    and to read the new paper go here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23478

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  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    Nikki Tagg sent me this today 😃 http://www.flanderstoday.eu/chimpanzee-research-could-lead-good-nights-sleep

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  • Snorticus by Snorticus in response to MimiA's comment.

    Congratulations to all the authors of this study! It is always so odd and interesting to see the chimps in the night time clips.

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