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Treetop Tutorials: Orangutans learn how to build their beds by ‘peering’ at others and a lot of practice!

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:00:00 GMT

In the wild, nest-building is key to survival for orangutans – University of Warwick scientists show they learn this skill by watching others and practicing themselves.

Ape ‘vocabularies’ shaped by social mingling — like in humans

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:12:00 GMT

Social mingling shapes and transforms the ‘vocabularies’ of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the University of Warwick.

Forest conservation policies must safeguard indigenous peoples’ rights, researchers urge

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:30:00 GMT

Global policy commitments on conservation such as the recent COP 26 declaration on Forest and Land Use are a step in the right direction but policy-makers must be inclusive of indigenous peoples and ensure that any initiatives learn from the long and problematic history of forest conservation, argues an international consortium of indigenous scholar activists and social, cultural, environmental, and behavioural scientists in correspondence published today [13] in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.