Andreu Sánchez Megías
@sanchezmegias.bsky.social
PhD Student @ub.edu with a Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship from "La Caixa" Foundation
Studying wild chimps in Senegal
@psicologiaub.bsky.social
@JaneGoodallEspana.bsky.social
Studying wild chimps in Senegal
@psicologiaub.bsky.social
@JaneGoodallEspana.bsky.social
Podéis leer sobre mi investigación en el Boletín de la Asociación Primatológica Española de la mano de @runnerape.bsky.social
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October 6, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Podéis leer sobre mi investigación en el Boletín de la Asociación Primatológica Española de la mano de @runnerape.bsky.social
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This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools | New Scientist
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae
www.newscientist.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
Our new article is out!
To learn their technological behaviours, young chimpanzees get tools and fruit from others, observe and practise 🌿🪨
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
To learn their technological behaviours, young chimpanzees get tools and fruit from others, observe and practise 🌿🪨
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Frontiers | Savanna chimpanzee tool and fruit transfers facilitate the transmission of technological behaviours at Dindefelo, Senegal
Social learning is a key factor in the transmission of technological behaviours amongst primates. We studied chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) social intera...
www.frontiersin.org
September 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Our new article is out!
To learn their technological behaviours, young chimpanzees get tools and fruit from others, observe and practise 🌿🪨
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
To learn their technological behaviours, young chimpanzees get tools and fruit from others, observe and practise 🌿🪨
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Had a great time at the @efp2026.bsky.social discussing primate research!
July 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Had a great time at the @efp2026.bsky.social discussing primate research!
Reposted by Andreu Sánchez Megías
🔬 #RecercaUB | Com adapten els ximpanzés les seves eines per alimentar-se en entorns extrems?
https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/psicologia/detall/-/detall/un-estudi-amb-participacio-de-la-ub-analitza-com-els-ximpanzes-consumeixen-formigues-guerreres-en-entorns-de-sabana
#RecercaUB #PsicologiaUB
https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/psicologia/detall/-/detall/un-estudi-amb-participacio-de-la-ub-analitza-com-els-ximpanzes-consumeixen-formigues-guerreres-en-entorns-de-sabana
#RecercaUB #PsicologiaUB
June 3, 2026 at 7:44 AM
🔬 #RecercaUB | Com adapten els ximpanzés les seves eines per alimentar-se en entorns extrems?
https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/psicologia/detall/-/detall/un-estudi-amb-participacio-de-la-ub-analitza-com-els-ximpanzes-consumeixen-formigues-guerreres-en-entorns-de-sabana
#RecercaUB #PsicologiaUB
https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/psicologia/detall/-/detall/un-estudi-amb-participacio-de-la-ub-analitza-com-els-ximpanzes-consumeixen-formigues-guerreres-en-entorns-de-sabana
#RecercaUB #PsicologiaUB
And another new paper!
We report the first evidence of baobab pounding in Dindefelo, Senegal, a chimpanzee proto-tool use behaviour that occurs in the West African savanna.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We report the first evidence of baobab pounding in Dindefelo, Senegal, a chimpanzee proto-tool use behaviour that occurs in the West African savanna.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New evidence of baobab (Adansonia digitata) pounding by western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) - Primates
Percussive technology in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) shows significant behavioral variation across Africa. An example is baobab (Adansonia digitata) fruit pounding, which is only known to occur...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
And another new paper!
We report the first evidence of baobab pounding in Dindefelo, Senegal, a chimpanzee proto-tool use behaviour that occurs in the West African savanna.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We report the first evidence of baobab pounding in Dindefelo, Senegal, a chimpanzee proto-tool use behaviour that occurs in the West African savanna.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper alert!
Although savanna chimpanzees in Dindefelo (Senegal) exhibit unique strategies to find army ants...
We found that chimpanzee strategies to eat these ants do not differ in savannas compared to forests but rather depend on ant species' behaviour.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Although savanna chimpanzees in Dindefelo (Senegal) exhibit unique strategies to find army ants...
We found that chimpanzee strategies to eat these ants do not differ in savannas compared to forests but rather depend on ant species' behaviour.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chimpanzee army ant consumption strategies show no habitat-specific pattern - Scientific Reports
Variation in army ant consumption strategies highlights cultural differences between chimpanzee communities in forest habitats. Since these strategies have not been studied in detail in savannas, vari...
www.nature.com
May 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM
New paper alert!
Although savanna chimpanzees in Dindefelo (Senegal) exhibit unique strategies to find army ants...
We found that chimpanzee strategies to eat these ants do not differ in savannas compared to forests but rather depend on ant species' behaviour.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Although savanna chimpanzees in Dindefelo (Senegal) exhibit unique strategies to find army ants...
We found that chimpanzee strategies to eat these ants do not differ in savannas compared to forests but rather depend on ant species' behaviour.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We've had a super interesting talk by Gabriela Oliveira (@neoprego.org) about her research with capuchin monkey tool use in Brasil 🐒🪨🥔🥜🕷
September 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We've had a super interesting talk by Gabriela Oliveira (@neoprego.org) about her research with capuchin monkey tool use in Brasil 🐒🪨🥔🥜🕷
I talked about chimps, ants, tools and revisits at #IPS2025 #IPSMadagascar
Happy to be surrounded by so many amazing researchers and conservationists! 🐒🇲🇬
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social
Happy to be surrounded by so many amazing researchers and conservationists! 🐒🇲🇬
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I talked about chimps, ants, tools and revisits at #IPS2025 #IPSMadagascar
Happy to be surrounded by so many amazing researchers and conservationists! 🐒🇲🇬
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social
Happy to be surrounded by so many amazing researchers and conservationists! 🐒🇲🇬
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social
Avui podeu llegir a @elperiodico.com sobre la meva recerca de doctorat com a becari de la Fundació "la Caixa"
Hoy podéis leer en @elperiodico.com sobre mi investigación de doctorado como becario de la Fundación "la Caixa"
www.elperiodico.cat/ca/societat/...
Hoy podéis leer en @elperiodico.com sobre mi investigación de doctorado como becario de la Fundación "la Caixa"
www.elperiodico.cat/ca/societat/...
Andreu Sánchez Megías, doctorand en Biodiversitat: "Estudio els ximpanzés per entendre millor els humans"
EL PERIÓDICO i Fundació La Caixa donen veu als perfils socials, culturals i científics que amb el seu esforç estan creant una societat amb més oportunitats per a tothom.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Avui podeu llegir a @elperiodico.com sobre la meva recerca de doctorat com a becari de la Fundació "la Caixa"
Hoy podéis leer en @elperiodico.com sobre mi investigación de doctorado como becario de la Fundación "la Caixa"
www.elperiodico.cat/ca/societat/...
Hoy podéis leer en @elperiodico.com sobre mi investigación de doctorado como becario de la Fundación "la Caixa"
www.elperiodico.cat/ca/societat/...
Podéis escucharme en @cienciaes.bsky.social hablando sobre cómo los chimpancés encuentran y extraen hormigas escondidas a lo largo de los años 🐜🕳🌿
@janegoodall.org @psicologiaub.bsky.social
@ub.edu
@janegoodall.org @psicologiaub.bsky.social
@ub.edu
Andreu Sánchez Mejías explica cómo los chimpancés utilizan la memoria espacial y episódica, junto a herramientas elaboradas con ramitas para cazar hormigas guerreras. Podcast "Hablando con Científicos. #hablandoconcientificos
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@cienciaes
December 27, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Podéis escucharme en @cienciaes.bsky.social hablando sobre cómo los chimpancés encuentran y extraen hormigas escondidas a lo largo de los años 🐜🕳🌿
@janegoodall.org @psicologiaub.bsky.social
@ub.edu
@janegoodall.org @psicologiaub.bsky.social
@ub.edu
Reposted by Andreu Sánchez Megías
#RecercaUB | 🐒 Un estudi de la #UniBarcelona i l’Institut Jane Goodall a Espanya descriu com els ximpanzés fan ús de diferents memòries per identificar amagatalls de formigues.
🎓 Lideren Andreu Sánchez-Megías i Adriana Hernández-Aguilar, de @psicologiaub.bsky.social.
👉 web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
🎓 Lideren Andreu Sánchez-Megías i Adriana Hernández-Aguilar, de @psicologiaub.bsky.social.
👉 web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
December 9, 2024 at 10:37 AM
#RecercaUB | 🐒 Un estudi de la #UniBarcelona i l’Institut Jane Goodall a Espanya descriu com els ximpanzés fan ús de diferents memòries per identificar amagatalls de formigues.
🎓 Lideren Andreu Sánchez-Megías i Adriana Hernández-Aguilar, de @psicologiaub.bsky.social.
👉 web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
🎓 Lideren Andreu Sánchez-Megías i Adriana Hernández-Aguilar, de @psicologiaub.bsky.social.
👉 web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
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Andreu Sanchez-Megias @psicologiaub.bsky.social presents on social learning and tool transfer in chimpanzees from Dindefelo
#UniBarcelona
#JaneGodallEspana
#IXIPC
#UniBarcelona
#JaneGodallEspana
#IXIPC
November 22, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Andreu Sanchez-Megias @psicologiaub.bsky.social presents on social learning and tool transfer in chimpanzees from Dindefelo
#UniBarcelona
#JaneGodallEspana
#IXIPC
#UniBarcelona
#JaneGodallEspana
#IXIPC
Reposted by Andreu Sánchez Megías
Super happy to see this paper finally published!!! 🙌🙌 How do chimpanzees in the wild find hidden food resorces, like army ants? Check it out to get an answer😉👇
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Wild chimpanzees remember and revisit concealed, underground army ant nest locations throughout multiple years - Communications Biology
Wild chimpanzees revisit hidden, subterraneous army ant nests and inspect them in search of ants through several years, suggesting that they use spatial and episodic-like memory to exploit concealed s...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Super happy to see this paper finally published!!! 🙌🙌 How do chimpanzees in the wild find hidden food resorces, like army ants? Check it out to get an answer😉👇
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...