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The arcuate fascicle (AF) is the main fibre tract in the brain for human language. It connects frontal and temporal language areas in the...

Have you ever wondered how your childhood relationship with your parents shaped the person you are today? Scientists have long known that...

Asanti and Akuna in full action (c) Liran Samuni / TCP Language is a combinatorial communication system able to generate an infinite...

Listen to what Catherine Crockford explains about chimpanzee communication https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/chimpanzee-sex-dialects-1...

Male chimpanzee trying to attract the attention of a female with an estrous swelling Asking for mating with females, males from different...

For the next three days researchers and conservationists meet at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences in Lyon to celebrate and discuss 45...

The earliest evidence for complex tool use in the archaeological record dates to 3.3 Ma. While wooden tools may have been used by our...

We offer a PhD position documenting the cultural behavior of the Tai chimpanzees and investigating the effect of illegal human activity...

Established in 1979 by the late Christophe Boesch, the Tai Chimpanzee Project operates since 45 years to conduct research on the the wild...

Published today, a new paper explains what steps have been taken by the members of the Evolution of Brain Connectivity Consortium to...

Founded in 1979, the Tai Chimpanzee Project is running this year since 45 continuous years. This is another big milestone for TCP. We are...

Fabian Leendertz is working with TCP since over 20 years, investigating the disease outbreaks in the Tai chimpanzees. He and his team do...

One universal of human language is its versatility in communicating about juxtapositions of everyday events. Versatile combinatorial...

We are looking for a veterinarian that is interested in wildlife vet medicine and pathology, working with wild chimpanzees. We offer a...

We seek a research assistant to observe the chimpanzees of the Tai National Park. Please check the job offers under taichimps.org and...

We are looking for a lab assistant for our field laboratory located in North Camp of TCP in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. TCP is...

Roman Wittig received his nomination as Directeur de Recherche 1er class from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques last...

Members of TCP are meeting some of their new neighbours from field primatology in France: amongst them members of the Mandrillus Project,...

Yesterday we launched our new website that can be found through three different domains: www.taichimps.org www.taichimpproject.org...