Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology

Gräßle, Tobias; Crockford, Catherine; Eichner, Cornelius; Girard‐Buttoz, Cédric; Girard-Buttoz, Cédric; Jäger, Carsten; Kirilina, Evgeniya; Lipp, Ilona; Düx, Ariane; Edwards, Luke; Jauch, Anna; Kopp, Kathrin S.; Paquette, Michael; Pine, Kerrin; EBC Consortium; Haun, Daniel B.M.; Haun, Daniel B. M.; McElreath, Richard; Anwander, Alfred; Gunz, Philipp; Morawski, Markus; Friederici, Angela D.; Weiskopf, Nikolaus; Leendertz, Fabian H.; Wittig, Roman M.; Albig, Karoline; Amarasekaran, Bala; Angedakin, Sam; Aschoff, Daniel; Asiimwe, Caroline; Bailanda, Laurent; Beehner, Jacinta C.; Belais, Raphael; Bergman, Thore J.; Blazey, Birgit; Bernhard, Andreas; Bock, Christian; Carlier, Pénélope; Chantrey, Julian; Deschner, Tobias; Escoubas, Géraldine; Ettaj, Malak; Fedurek, Pawel; Flores, Karina; Francke, Richard; Fortun, Jorge Gomez; GoneBi, Zoro Bertin; Gruber-Dujardin, Eva; Hartel, Jess; Henshall, Michael; Hobaiter, Catherine; Hofman, Noémie; Jaffe, Jenny E.; Kahemere, Stomy; Klopfleisch, Robert; Knauf-Witzens, Tobias; Kouima, Guy Landry Mamboundou; Lange, Bastian; Langergraber, Kevin; Lawrenz, Arne; Liptovszky, Matys; Theron, Tobias Loubser; Lumbu, Christelle Patricia; Nzassi, Patrice Makouloutou; Mätz-Rensing, Kerstin; McLennan, Matthew; Mezö, Zoltan; Moittie, Sophie; Møller, Torsten; Morgan, David; Mugabe, Timothy; Muller, Martin; Müller, Matthias; Njumboket, Inoussa; Olofsson-Sannö, Karin; Ondzie, Alain; Otali, Emily; Pika, Simone; Pizarro, Andrea; Pléh, Kamilla; Rendel, Jessica; Reichler-Danielowski, Sandra; Robbins, Martha M.; Forero, Alejandra Romero

doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14039

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Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Zoo Animal Welfare (2025)
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Liptovszky, M., & Polla, E. (2025). Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Zoo Animal Welfare. Zoo Biology, https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.70008

The thorough, objective, and regular assessment of animal welfare in zoos and aquariums is rapidly becoming an essential task for these institutions. Traditional welfare assessment methods are, however, difficult to scale to the number of species and... Read More about Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Zoo Animal Welfare.

Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Great Apes in Human Care (2025)
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Liptovszky, M., Reeves, C., Jarvis, R., Baiker, K., Dobbs, P., White, K., & Moittié, S. (2025). Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Great Apes in Human Care. Zoo Biology, https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21908

Reliably assessing vitamin D status in nonhuman great apes presents unique challenges, including the optimal collection, handling and storage of appropriate samples, assay selection, and interpretation of results. In recent decades, significant scien... Read More about Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Great Apes in Human Care.

Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network (2025)
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Becker, Y., Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Bock, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Gräßle, T., Deschner, T., Zuberbühler, K., Wood, K., Wibbelt, G., Weiskopf, N., Walker, S., Unwin, S., Ulrich, R., Tanga, T., Szentiks, C. A., Southern, L., Stidworthy, M. F., Steiner, J., …Anwander, A. (2025). Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 4485. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59254-8

The arcuate fascicle (AF) is the main fibre tract in the brain for human language. It connects frontal and temporal language areas in the superior and middle temporal gyrus (MTG). The AF’s connection to the MTG was considered unique to humans and has... Read More about Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network.

Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution (2024)
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Friederici, A. D., Wittig, R. M., Anwander, A., Eichner, C., Gräßle, T., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., Lipp, I., Düx, A., Edwards, L. J., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jauch, A., Kopp, K. S., Paquette, M., Pine, K. J., Unwin, S., Haun, D. B. M., Leendertz, F. H., McElreath, R., Morawski, M., …Zuberbühler, K. (2024). Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17, Article 1299087. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.1299087

To decipher the evolution of the hominoid brain and its functions, it is essential to conduct comparative studies in primates, including our closest living relatives. However, strong ethical concerns preclude in vivo neuroimaging of great apes. We pr... Read More about Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution.

Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology (2023)
Journal Article
Gräßle, T., Crockford, C., Eichner, C., Girard‐Buttoz, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., Lipp, I., Düx, A., Edwards, L., Jauch, A., Kopp, K. S., Paquette, M., Pine, K., EBC Consortium, Haun, D. B., Haun, D. B. M., McElreath, R., Anwander, A., Gunz, P., …Forero, A. R. (2023). Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(8), 1906-1924. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14039

1. The selection pressures that drove dramatic encephalisation processes through the mammal lineage remain elusive, as does knowledge of brain structure reorganisation through this process. In particular, considerable structural brain changes are pre... Read More about Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology.