Roman WITTIG

Director of Research Ape Social Mind Lab, Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ISC), CNRS UMR 5229, Bron, France Director of Tai Chimpanzee Project Tai Chimpanzee Project, IRL ChiMP4IC, CSRS en Cote d'Ivoire, Adiopodoume, Cote d'Ivoire Principle Investigator Evolution of Brain Connectivity, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Scientific Director IRL on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (ChiMP4CI), IRL 2041 CNRS / CSRS en Cote d'Ivoire, Adiopodoume, Cote d'Ivoire Deputy Director Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229 CNRS / Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 67 Bvd Pinel, 69500 Bron, France
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  • Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229 (ISC-MJ)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie = Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA)
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I am a Behavioural Ecologist and Evolutionary Anthropologist observing and researching wild chimpanzees and other non-human primates to understand the evolution of human behaviour and cognition. I am working in intersdisciplinary and international teams on questions addressing the evolution of conflict management, cooperation, cognition, culture and the hominoid brain.


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Versatile use of chimpanzee call combinations promotes meaning expansion

Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Christof Neumann , Tatiana Bortolato , Emiliano Zaccarella , Angela Friederici et al.

Science Advances , 2025, 11 (19), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adq2879⟩

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Emotions mediate nonlinear phenomena production in the vocalizations of two ape species

Floriane Fournier , Léo Perrier , Cedric Girard-Buttoz , Sumir Keenan , Tatiana Bortolato et al.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 380 (1923), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2024.0013⟩

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Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) Indicate Mammalian Abundance Across Broad Spatial Scales

Paul Kazaba , Lars Kulik , Ghislain Beukou Choumbou , Christelle Douhin Tiémoko , Funmilayo Oni et al.

Ecology and Evolution, 2025, 15 (3), ⟨10.1002/ece3.71000⟩

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Social tolerance and role model diversity increase tool use learning opportunities across chimpanzee ontogeny

Oscar Nodé-Langlois , Eléonore Rolland , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Liran Samuni , Pier Francesco Ferrari et al.

Communications Biology, 2025, 8 (1), pp.509. ⟨10.1038/s42003-025-07885-4⟩

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Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network

Yannick Becker , Cornelius Eichner , Michael Paquette , Christian Bock , Cédric Girard-Buttoz et al.

Nature Communications, 2025, 16, pp.4485. ⟨10.1038/s41467-025-59254-8⟩

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Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation

Vesta Eleuteri , Jelle van der Werff , Wytse Wilhelm , Adrian Soldati , Catherine Crockford et al.

Current Biology, 2025, 35, pp.2448 - 2456.e4. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019⟩

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Emotions mediate nonlinear phenomena production in the vocalizations of two ape species

Floriane Fournier , Léo Perrier , Cedric Girard-Buttoz , Sumir Keenan , Tatiana Bortolato et al.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 380 (1923), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2024.0013⟩

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Maternal gregariousness and female audience effects mediate mother–infant proximity in wild chimpanzees

Pawel Fedurek , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Patrick Tkaczynski , Catherine Hobaiter , Klaus Zuberbühler et al.

Animal Behaviour, 2025, 223, pp.123156. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123156⟩

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Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees

Aleksey Maro , Aaron Sandel , Bi Blaiore , Roman M. Wittig , John Mitani et al.

Science Advances , 2025, 11 (38), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adw1665⟩

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Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees

Harrison Ostridge , Claudia Fontsere , Esther Lizano , Daniela Soto , Joshua Schmidt et al.

Science, 2025, 387 (6730), ⟨10.1126/science.adn7954⟩

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Evidence of organized but not disorganized attachment in wild Western chimpanzee offspring (Pan troglodytes verus)

Eléonore Rolland , Oscar Nodé-Langlois , Patrick J Tkaczynski , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Holly Rayson et al.

Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9 (8), pp.1571 - 1582. ⟨10.1038/s41562-025-02176-8⟩

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Social tolerance and role model diversity increase tool use learning opportunities across chimpanzee ontogeny

Oscar Nodé-Langlois , Eléonore Rolland , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Liran Samuni , Pier Francesco Ferrari et al.

Communications Biology, 2025, 8 (1), pp.509. ⟨10.1038/s42003-025-07885-4⟩

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Functional host-specific adaptation of the intestinal microbiome in hominids

M. Rühlemann , C. Bang , J. Gogarten , B. Hermes , M. Groussin et al.

Nature Communications, 2024, 15 (1), pp.326. ⟨10.1038/s41467-023-44636-7⟩

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The archaeological visibility of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut-cracking

Tomos Proffitt , Serge Soiret Pacome , Jonathan Reeves , Roman Wittig , Lydia Luncz

Journal of Human Evolution, 2024, 195, pp.103582. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103582⟩

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Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees

Mathieu Malherbe , Liran Samuni , Sonja Ebel , Kathrin Kopp , Catherine Crockford et al.

PLoS Biology, 2024, 22 (5), pp.e3002609. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3002609⟩

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Detailed mapping of the complex fiber structure and white matter pathways of the chimpanzee brain

Cornelius Eichner , Michael Paquette , Christa Müller-Axt , Christian Bock , Eike Budinger et al.

Nature Methods, 2024, 21 (6), pp.1122-1130. ⟨10.1038/s41592-024-02270-1⟩

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PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition

Otto Brookes , Majid Mirmehdi , Colleen Stephens , Samuel Angedakin , Katherine Corogenes et al.

International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024, 132 (8), pp.3086-3102. ⟨10.1007/s11263-024-02003-z⟩

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Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Stone in a Wild Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes verus ) in Côte d'Ivoire

Jenny E. Jaffe , Kerstin Mätz-Rensing , Markus Ulrich , Tobias Gräßle , Verena Behringer et al.

Journal of Medical Primatology, 2024, 53 (5), ⟨10.1111/jmp.12739⟩

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Bonobos and people at Wamba: 50 years of research By Takeshi Furuichi, Gen'ichi Idani, Daiji Kimura, Hiroshi Ihobe, Chie Hashimoto, Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023. pp. 1–589. ISBN: 978‐981‐99‐4787‐4

Roman Wittig

American Journal of Primatology, 2024, 86 (9), ⟨10.1002/ajp.23663⟩

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Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees

Mathieu Malherbe , Liran Samuni , Sonja Ebel , Kathrin Kopp , Catherine Crockford et al.

PLoS Biology, 2024, 22 (5), pp.e3002609. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3002609⟩

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Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment

Timothy Eppley , Kim Reuter , Timothy Sefczek , Jen Tinsman , Luca Santini et al.

Conservation Letters, 2024, 17 (2), ⟨10.1111/conl.13007⟩

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Christophe Boesch (1951–2024): Primatology Pioneer with a Long-Term Vision for Research and Conservation

Catherine Crockford , Mimi Arandjelovic , Tobias Deschner , Zoro Bertin Gone Bi , Ilka Herbinger et al.

International Journal of Primatology, 2024, 45 (4), pp.721-725. ⟨10.1007/s10764-024-00420-y⟩

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Oesophagostomum stephanostomum causing parasitic granulomas in wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ) of Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire

Jenny Jaffe , Sonja Metzger , Kerstin Mätz-Rensing , Alexis Ribas , Roman Wittig et al.

American Journal of Primatology, 2024, 86 (8), ⟨10.1002/ajp.23652⟩

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Strontium isotopes track female dispersal in Taï chimpanzees

Renee Boucher , Roman Wittig , Sylvain Lemoine , Aleksey Maro , Xueye Wang et al.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024, 184 (4), ⟨10.1002/ajpa.24981⟩

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Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution

Angela Friederici , Roman Wittig , Alfred Anwander , Cornelius Eichner , Tobias Gräßle et al.

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2024, 17, pp.1299087. ⟨10.3389/fnint.2023.1299087⟩

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Social uncertainty promotes signal complexity during approaches in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys)

Mathilde Grampp , Liran Samuni , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Julián León , Klaus Zuberbühler et al.

Royal Society Open Science, 2023, 10 (11), pp.231073. ⟨10.1098/rsos.231073⟩

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High angular resolution susceptibility imaging and estimation of fiber orientation distribution functions in primate brain

Dimitrios G Gkotsoulias , Roland Müller , Carsten Jäger , Torsten Schlumm , Toralf Mildner et al. Article dans une revue hal-04304813v1
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Chimpanzees show the capacity to communicate about concomitant daily life events

Tatiana Bortolato , Angela D Friederici , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Roman M Wittig , Catherine Crockford

iScience, 2023, 26 (11), pp.108090. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2023.108090⟩

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Chimpanzees make tactical use of high elevation in territorial contexts

Sylvain R T Lemoine , Liran Samuni , Catherine Crockford , Roman M Wittig

PLoS Biology, 2023, 21 (11), pp.e3002350. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3002350⟩

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

Tobias Gräßle , Catherine Crockford , Cornelius Eichner , Cédric Girard‐buttoz , Carsten Jäger et al.

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, 14 (8), pp.1906-1924. ⟨10.1111/2041-210x.14039⟩

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Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties

Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Emiliano Zaccarella , Tatiana Bortolato , Angela Friederici , Roman Wittig et al.

Communications Biology, 2022, 5 (1), pp.410. ⟨10.1038/s42003-022-03350-8⟩

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Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species

Oliver Schülke , Simone Anzà , Catherine Crockford , Delphine de Moor , Tobias Deschner et al.

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2022, 76 (4), pp.50. ⟨10.1007/s00265-022-03133-5⟩

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Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes verus)</i>

Tatiana Bortolato , Roger Mundry , Roman M Wittig , Cédric Girard‐buttoz , Catherine Crockford

Developmental Science, 2022, 26 (4), pp.e13350. ⟨10.1111/desc.13350⟩

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Population-specific call order in chimpanzee greeting vocal sequences

Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Tatiana Bortolato , Marion Laporte , Mathilde Grampp , Klaus Zuberbühler et al.

iScience, 2022, 25 (9), pp.104851. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2022.104851⟩

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Parochial cooperation in wild chimpanzees: a model to explain the evolution of parochial altruism

Sylvain Lemoine , Liran Samuni , Catherine Crockford , Roman Wittig

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022, 377 (1851), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2021.0149⟩

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Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies

Samuel Ellis , Rufus Johnstone , Michael Cant , Daniel Franks , Michael Weiss et al.

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022, 6 (11), pp.1766-1776. ⟨10.1038/s41559-022-01872-2⟩

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The importance of well protected forests for the conservation genetics of West African colobine monkeys

Tânia Minhós , Filipa Borges , Bárbara Parreira , Rúben Oliveira , Isa Aleixo‐pais et al.

American Journal of Primatology, 2022, 85 (1), pp.e23453. ⟨10.1002/ajp.23453⟩

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Maternal effects on the development of vocal communication in wild chimpanzees

Aisha Bründl , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Tatiana Bortolato , Liran Samuni , Mathilde Grampp et al.

iScience, 2022, 25 (10), pp.105152. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2022.105152⟩

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Leprosy in wild chimpanzees

Kimberley Hockings , Benjamin Mubemba , Charlotte Avanzi , Kamilla Pleh , Ariane Düx et al.

Nature, 2021, 598 (7882), pp.652-656. ⟨10.1038/s41586-021-03968-4⟩

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The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis

Catherine Crockford , Fernando Colchero , José Manuel Aburto , Elizabeth A Archie , Christophe Boesch et al.

Nature Communications, 2021, 12, ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3⟩

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Early maternal loss leads to short-but not long-term effects on diurnal cortisol slopes in wild chimpanzees

Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Patrick J Tkaczynski , Liran Samuni , Pawel Fedurek , Cristina Gomes et al.

eLife, 2021

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Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage

Sven Grawunder , Natalie Uomini , Liran Samuni , Tatiana Bortolato , Cédric Girard-Buttoz et al.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, 377 (1841), pp.20200455. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2020.0455⟩

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Energetic management in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire

Prince D Valé , Jean-Claude K Béné , Antoine K N’guessan , Catherine Crockford , Tobias Deschner et al.

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2021, 75 (1), pp.1. ⟨10.1007/s00265-020-02935-9⟩

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Small Mirrors Do the Trick: A Simple, but Effective Method to Study Mirror Self-Recognition in Chimpanzees

Kathrin S Kopp , Sonja J Ebel , Roman M Wittig , Daniel B M Haun , Catherine Crockford

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2021, 8 (3), pp.391-404. ⟨10.26451/abc.08.03.05.2021⟩

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Group-level cooperation in chimpanzees is shaped by strong social ties

Liran Samuni , Catherine Crockford , Roman M Wittig

Nature Communications, 2021, 12, pp.539. ⟨10.1038/s41467-020-20709-9⟩

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Attractiveness of female sexual signaling predicts differences in female grouping patterns between bonobos and chimpanzees

Martin Surbeck , Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Liran Samuni , Christophe Boesch , Barbara Fruth et al.

Communications Biology, 2021, 4, pp.1119. ⟨10.1038/s42003-021-02641-w⟩

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Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage

Sven Grawunder , Natalie Uomini , Liran Samuni , Tatiana Bortolato , Cédric Girard-Buttoz et al.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part II), 377 (1841), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2020.0455⟩

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Information transfer efficiency differs in wild chimpanzees and bonobos, but not social cognition

Cédric Girard-Buttoz , Martin Surbeck , Liran Samuni , Patrick Tkaczynski , Christophe Boesch et al.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020, 287 (1929), pp.20200523. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2020.0523⟩

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Maternal effects on offspring growth indicate post-weaning juvenile dependence in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)

Liran Samuni , Patrick Tkaczynski , Tobias Deschner , Therese Löhrrich , Roman M Wittig et al.

Frontiers in Zoology, 2020, 17, pp.1. ⟨10.1186/s12983-019-0343-8⟩

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Systematic mapping of developmental milestones in wild chimpanzees

Aisha Bründl , Patrick Tkaczynski , Grégoire Nohon Kohou , Christophe Boesch , Roman Wittig et al.

Developmental Science, 2020, 24 (1), pp.108090. ⟨10.1111/desc.12988⟩

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Patterns of urinary cortisol levels during ontogeny appear population specific rather than species specific in wild chimpanzees and bonobos

Patrick J Tkaczynski , Verena Behringer , Corinne y Ackermann , Pawel Fedurek , Barbara Fruth et al.

Journal of Human Evolution, 2020, 147, pp.102869. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102869⟩

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Postweaning maternal care increases male chimpanzee reproductive success

Catherine Crockford , Liran Samuni , Linda Vigilant , Roman M Wittig

Science Advances , 2020, 6 (38), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.aaz5746⟩

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Increased Sensitivity and Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Diffusion-Weighted MRI using Multi-Echo Acquisitions

Cornelius Eichner , Michael Paquette , Toralf Mildner , Torsten Schlumm , Kamilla Pléh et al.

NeuroImage, 2020, 221, pp.117172. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117172⟩

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Vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social-cognitive processes

Catherine Crockford , Roman M. Wittig , Klaus Zuberbühler

Science Advances , 2017, 3 (11), pp.1701742

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Evidence for delta Zn-66 values as indicators of meat consumption in the Tai chimpanzees

R.D. Boucher , Klervia Jaouen , J. Riedel , C. Boesch , Roman M. Wittig et al.

91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Mar 2022, Denver, United States. pp.19, ⟨10.1002/ajpa.24514⟩

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