EFP 2017

* Participants in the student award competition

Plenary Session

Facial Communication in Primates

Bridget Waller

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Coffee break Sponsored by     

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Parallel Symposia and Oral Communications

Communicative complexity in nonhuman primates’ gestural signaling?

Chairs: Émilie Genty and Catherine Hobaiter

• Complexity in Monkey Communication: Gestural Signalling in Red-Capped Mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus) is Intentional
  Anne Marijke Schel, Axelle Bono, Simone Pika, Alban Lemasson

• The Multiple Timescales of Ape Gesture: Reconciling Evolution, Ontogeny and Iconicity
  Marcus Perlman

• Developmental Effects on Gestural Employment of Chimpanzees in the Wild
  Marlen Fröhlich, Gudrun Müller, Claudia Zeiträg, Roman M. Wittig, Simone Pika

• Studying Multi-Component Facial Behavior in Primates
  Brittany Florkiewicz*, Erica Cartmill

• Combining Signals Within and Across Modalities in Great Ape Communication
  Erica Cartmill

• Complex Patterns of Signalling in Bonobo Communication: When Specificity Lies in Gestures
  Émilie Genty*, Christof Neumann, Klaus Zuberbühler

• Do Chimpanzee Signal Combinations Provide Refinement or Redundancy in Meaning?
  Catherine Hobaiter, Adrian Soldati, Klaus Zuberbühler

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Ecology

Chairs: Shelly Masi and Giuseppe Donati

• The Energetics of Reproduction in a Wild Malagasy Primate
  Cécile Garcia, Luca Morino, Amélie Chimenes, Hantanirina Rasamimanana, Vonjy Andrianarimalala, Ruva Fiandry, Alexandre Zahariev, Stéphane Blanc, Bruno Simmen

• First Evidence of Geophagy in a Free-Ranging Group of Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix flavicauda) at ‘La Esperanza’, Peru
  Vinciane Fack, Régine Vercauteren Drubbel, Sam Shanee, Martine Vercauteren, Hélène Meunier

• Behavioural Flexibility of Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) Living in a Savanna-Woodland Fragment in Tanzania
  Valentina D. Rindal, Trond Reitan, Glenn-Peter Sætre, Sood A. Ndimuligo, Addisu Mekonnen, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar

• Lemur Abundance in the Lowland Rainforest of Tsitongambarika, Southeastern Madagascar: Altitudinal and Latitudinal Comparisons
  Giuseppe Donati, Michela Balestri, Megan Phelps, Julie Mauguière, Marco Campera

• Energy Expenditure and Body Composition of Verreaux’s Sifakas in Forest Fragments of the Arid South of Madagascar
  Bruno Simmen, Luca Morino, Hantanirina Rasamimanana, Alexandre Zahariev, Stéphane Blanc, Bernard Riera, Edmond Roger, Vonjy Marie Prisca Andrianarimalala, Ruva Fiandry, Rado Ramahandrison, Cécile Garcia

• Exploring Niche Partitioning in Strepsirrhines: Lepilemur fleuretae and Avahi meridionalis in the Lowland Rainforest of Southeastern Madagascar
  Michela Balestri*, Marco Campera, Kai Nekaris, Giuseppe Donati

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3D imaging for functional studies in primatology

Chairs: Sébastien Couette and Judit Marigó

• Is Ear Pneumatization Functional, or Just a Heritable Trait?
  Margot Bernardi*, Sébastien Couette, Sophie Montuire

• Shape And Function Of The Hominid Auditory Region
  Alexander Stoessel, Romain David, Philipp Gunz, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Fred Spoor

• Just a matter of size? The influence of cranial size variation on ear functions
  Sébastien Couette, Margot Bernardi, Sophie Montuire

• Geometric Morphometric Approaches to Infer Bite Force and Diet in Extinct Strepsirrhines
  Anne-Claire Fabre, Maitena Dumont, Christine E. Wall, Elizabeth Dumont, Laurie Godfrey, Anthony Herrel

• What Can The Shape of The Calcaneus Tell Us About Locomotion in Extinct Primates?
  Judit Marigó, Anne-Claire Fabre, Doug M. Boyer

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Lunch

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Oral Communications and Parallel Symposium

Communication

Chairs: Marie Bourjade and Stuart Semple

• Linguistic Laws In Chimpanzee Gestural Communication
  Stuart Semple, Raphaela Heesen, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Catherine Hobaiter

• Gestural Communication in Olive Baboons (Papio anubis): Repertoire and Properties
  Sandra Molesti, Adrien Meguerditchian, Marie Bourjade

• The Informative Value of Recipient and Signaler Disagreement for The Study of Intentional Communication in Wild Chimpanzees
  Christine Sievers, Thibaud Gruber, Klaus Zuberbühler

• Macaques are Less Likely to Attack Others Producing Stress Behaviour
  Jamie Whitehouse*, Jérôme Micheletta, Bridget M. Waller

• Specific Facial Replications in Chimpanzees and Orang-Utans During Social Play
  Diane Austry, Guillaume Dezecache, Violet Burek, Cristina Costantini, Elke Zimmermann, Kim Bard, Marina Davila-Ross

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Ecology (continued)

Chairs: Shelly Masi and Giuseppe Donati

• Orangutan Population Structure in a Marginal Habitat and its Implications for Conservation
  Alison Ashbury*, Stephanie Spehar, Yaya Rayadin, Maria van Noordwijk, Carel van Schaik

• Dialium and Seed Reingestion from Feces in Western Gorillas: A Source of Protein and ‘Cooking’ Effect
  Shelly Masi, Thomas Breuer

• New Evidence of Well Digging in Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Kahensa, Tanzania
  Sood A. Ndimuligo, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Shadrack M. Kamenya, Nils C. Stenseth

• Seasonal Variation in Indicators of Climatic and Ecological Stress in Savanna-Dwelling Chimpanzees
  Erin Wessling*, Hjalmar Kuehl, Tobias Deschner, Roger Mundry, Jill Pruetz

• Nesting Patterns of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a Savanna Habitat, Dindefelo, Senegal
  Denise Enthoven*, Liliana Pacheco, Manuel Llana, Trond Reitan, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar

• The Relationship between Food Distribution and Contest Competition: Evidence from a Non-Primate Species, the Asian elephant, in southern India
  Hansraj Gautam*, Vidya TNC

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Social networks in primates: From individuals’ attributes to network diffusion

Chairs: Ivan Puga-Gonzalez and Sebastian Sosa

• Fitness Benefits of Sociality: Macaques With More Social Partners Form Higher-Quality Sleeping Huddles
  Liz AD Campbell, Patrick J Tkaczynski, Julia Lehmann, Mohamed Mouna, Bonaventura Majolo

• Age Differences on Affiliative Interaction Patterns and Social Roles in Wild Rhesus Macaque
  Zhijie Liao*, Sebastian Sosa, Wu Chengfeng, Peng Zhang

• Using Social Networks to Study the Transmission of Novel Behaviour in Primates
  William Hoppitt

• Macaques, Networks and Parasites - (How) Do Network Positions Predict Parasite Transmission?
  Nadine Müller*, Mathias Franz, Christina Strube, Michael Heistermann, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke

• The Evolutionary Origins of Social Network Regulation
  Tamas David-Barrett

Individual-based models and social behaviour

Chairs: Sebastian Sosa

• Proximate Mechanisms Underlying Primates’ Complex Social Networks: A Modelling and Comparative Approach
  Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke, Sebastian Sosa, Bernard Thierry, Cedric Sueur

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Coffee break

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Parallel Oral Communications

Communication (continued)

Chairs: Marie Bourjade and Stuart Semple

• The Timing of Vocal Accommodation in Common Marmosets (Callithrix Jacchus)
  Yvonne Zürcher*, Judith M. Burkart

• Identity and Contextual information in Alarm Calls of Titi Monkeys
  Mélissa Berthet*, Christof Neumann, Geoffrey Mesbahi, Cristiane Cäsar, Klaus Zuberbühler

• The Evolution of Crying: Distress Calls and Infants’ Needs in Wild Chimpanzees
  Guillaume Dezecache, Klaus Zuberbühler, Marina Davila-Ross, Christoph D. Dahl

• The Structure and Function of Female Chimpanzee Pant-Hoots
  Eve Holden*, Charlotte Brand, Charlotte Grund, Liran Samuni, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter

• The Specificities of Chimpanzee Vocalisations and their Relationship to the Vocal Apparatus
  Marion Laporte, Philippe Martin, Didier Demolin

• On the Origin of Hemispheric Specialization for Language: Hand & Brain Asymmetries using MRI in Baboons (Papio anubis)
  Adrien Meguerditchian, Damien Marie, Konstantina Margiotoudi, Olivier Coulon, Muriel Roth, Bruno Nazarian, Jean-Luc Anton, Alice Bertello, Scott Lovea, Romain Lacoste

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Health

Chairs: Victor Narat and Augusto Vitale

• Considering the Diversity of Human – Nonhuman Primate Contacts for Disease Emergence
  Victor Narat, Stephanie Rupp, Tamara Giles-Vernick

• High Prevalences and a Wide Genetic Diversity of Simian Retroviruses in Non-human Primate Bushmeat in Rural Areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo
  Magnant Mukulumanya Mubonge*, Ahuka Mundeke Steve

• PCR Detection of Entamoeba Histolytica in Captive, Semi aptive and Wild Primates in The Amazon Region of Ecuador
  Sarah Martin-Solano*, Gabriel Carrillo Bilbao, Sandra Minda-Aluisa, Washington Benitez-Ortiz, Bertrand Losson, Marie-Claude Huynen, Bruno Levecke

• Vaginal Cytology as a Non-Invasive Method to Follow the Oestrus Cycle in Two Species of Non-Human Primates: Crab-eating Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) and Black Lemur (Eulemur macaco)
  Camille Truchard*, Manon Dirheimer, Fanélie Wanert

• Study of Prevalence of Cestodosis in Wildlife and Primates in the Centre de Primatologie of Strasbourg
  Nicolas Brion*, Julie Brunet, Manon Dirheimer, Cécile Lang, Pierrick Regnard, Fanélie Wanert, Ermanno Candolfi

• Non-human Primates in Neuroscience Research: The Case Against its Scientific Necessity
  Jarrod Bailey, Katy Taylor

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EFP General Assembly - Awards & Farewell

* Participants in the student award competition