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You are what you eat! Right?
We know that diet influences your relative fat mass, but still, people can have a genetic predisposition to be over- or underweight. And in bonobos, this is also the case!
Check out the study here and in the 🧵below:
doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23540
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ALT Graphical abstract of the paper. Body condition of all European bonobos was scored using a visual score system (score of 1 to 10). Example images together with standardized illustrations are provided. Results show that the European bonobo population showed no skew to being over- or underweight. Body condition score was not associated with sex, age, cardiovascular disease, nor diet, but was rather highly heritable (h² = 0.64).
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🐵 Always wanted to observe great apes?
🌟 This is your chance! Several positions are available to observe zoo-housed bonobos in the United States! ⬇️ See below for more information about the project 🐵🦠
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Always wanted to study the gut-vagina axis of zoo-housed bonobos within Europe? Join our lab in 2025! Contact @jonasrrtorfs for more info.
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New paper on #bonobo #welfare! 🐵 We applied QBA to see how humans score bonobo emotional expressivity. Check out the study published in @AW_TheJournal and in the thread (1/5):
doi.org/10.1017/awf.2024.29
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Excited to share our large-scale study comparing social co-feeding tolerance of bonobos and chimpanzees in 16 social groups across zoos and sanctuaries revealing no species-differences. Thanks to all coauthors and to all institutes for hosting us 🙌
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#DidYouKnow Body condition shows high heritability in zoo-housed bonobos #primatology Check out the full @AmJournalPrimat article by @jonasrrtorfs here: doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23540
Slim bonobos apperently have slim parents 🐵🤔 Catch one of the latest ZooScience (@ZOOscience_be) blogs, summarizing my recent study on the heritability of body condition in bonobos (available in English and Dutch): zooscience.be/en/blog/slim-b…
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@jonasrrtorfs Body condition shows high heritability in zoo-housed bonobos #health #primates #primatology #apes
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Very glad to see a chapter of my PhD thesis and our new paper on #gut #microbiome of DMRS out in @JEvBio ! 🥳 🥂 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #molerat #letsstartthesiswriting
Many thanks to all the European zoos to host us for data collection, and of course to all co-authors for their help in different aspects of the study: M. Eens, @dwlameris , @Jeronobo1 , @JonasVerspeek , JP Guery, and @NickyStaes
New paper out! We constructed social grooming networks of 22 groups of zoo-housed bonobos, and investigated the effects of individual (age, sex, rearing) and group-level characteristics (sex ratio, group size) on individual social network position🧵 (1/7)
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Many thanks to all zoos that allowed us to collect these data throughout the years (@Apenheul @valleedessinges @Ouwehand_Zoo @TwycrossZoo Wilhelma Stuttgart, @zoo_wuppertal @ZooFrankfurt @zooplanckendael) and to the students that helped in data collection. (6/7)
I would also like to acknowledge the help of all co-authors (@Jeronobo1 @JonasVerspeek @dwlameris Jean-Pascal Guery, Marcel Eens and @nickystaes,) and the funding I received for this work @FWOVlaanderen @ZOOscience_be @UAntwerpen (7/7)