Severine Hex is a comparative ethologist and behavioral ecologist who studies how animals living in complex societies navigate the challenges of their social worlds. Within a society, individuals deploy different social strategies depending upon their own...
I am a behavioural biologist and my research is driven by a fundamental question: how and why do animals communicate?
To answer this question, I investigate communicative and behavioural systems from comparative, ontogenetic, and adaptive perspectives. I...
Sofia is a PhD student in the Pan lab, where she studies the social behavior of wild bonobos. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from New York University.
Maisie received her BSc in Zoology from the University of Exeter and went on to complete a Master's in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London. During her Master's, she used genetic methods to investigate and quantify the diet of orangutans in...
Dr Miguel Gareta Garcia did his masters in Conservation and Evolution at the University of Valencia in Spain and completed his PhD at the University of Neuchâtel under the supervision of Prof. Redouan Bshary. He studied female vervet monkeys' social...
I study how motherhood shapes the social behavior of females using wild bonobos as a model organism. I specifically look at patterns of female sociality and social relationship formation.
My research focusses mainly on questions related to aspects of competition and cooperation within and between groups. I make use of our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees as referential models, to infer about potential selective pressures...
