Roman WITTIG Director of ResearchApe Social Mind Lab, Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ISC), CNRS UMR 5229, Bron, FranceDirector of Tai Chimpanzee ProjectTai Chimpanzee Project, IRL ChiMP4IC, CSRS en Cote d'Ivoire, Adiopodoume, Cote d'IvoirePrinciple InvestigatorEvolution of Brain Connectivity, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, GermanyScientific DirectorIRL on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (ChiMP4CI), IRL 2041 CNRS / CSRS en Cote d'Ivoire, Adiopodoume, Cote d'IvoireDeputy DirectorInstitut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229 CNRS / Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 67 Bvd Pinel, 69500 Bron, France

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roman-wittig

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0000-0001-6490-4031

Présentation

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.

Publications

Article dans une revue (54)

Versatile use of chimpanzee call combinations promotes meaning expansion Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Christof Neumann,Tatiana Bortolato,Emiliano Zaccarella,Angela Friedericiet al. Science Advances , 2025, 11 (19), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adq2879⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05097525v1
Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) Indicate Mammalian Abundance Across Broad Spatial Scales Paul Kazaba,Lars Kulik,Ghislain Beukou Choumbou,Christelle Douhin Tiémoko,Funmilayo Oniet al. Ecology and Evolution, 2025, 15 (3), ⟨10.1002/ece3.71000⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05399185v1
Emotions mediate nonlinear phenomena production in the vocalizations of two ape species Floriane Fournier,Léo Perrier,Cedric Girard-Buttoz,Sumir Keenan,Tatiana Bortolatoet al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 380 (1923), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2024.0013⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05024735v1
Emotions mediate nonlinear phenomena production in the vocalizations of two ape species Floriane Fournier,Léo Perrier,Cedric Girard-Buttoz,Sumir Keenan,Tatiana Bortolatoet al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025, 380 (1923), ⟨10.1098/rstb.2024.0013⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05389527v1
Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation Vesta Eleuteri,Jelle van der Werff,Wytse Wilhelm,Adrian Soldati,Catherine Crockfordet al. Current Biology, 2025, 35, pp.2448 - 2456.e4. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05097531v1
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-Buttozet al. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, pp.4485. ⟨10.1038/s41467-025-59254-8⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05097482v1
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 Ferrariet al. Communications Biology, 2025, 8 (1), pp.509. ⟨10.1038/s42003-025-07885-4⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05409968v1
Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees Aleksey Maro,Aaron Sandel,Bi Blaiore,Roman M. Wittig,John Mitaniet al. Science Advances , 2025, 11 (38), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adw1665⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05399146v1
Maternal gregariousness and female audience effects mediate mother–infant proximity in wild chimpanzees Pawel Fedurek,Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Patrick Tkaczynski,Catherine Hobaiter,Klaus Zuberbühleret al. Animal Behaviour, 2025, 223, pp.123156. ⟨10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123156⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05399162v1
Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees Harrison Ostridge,Claudia Fontsere,Esther Lizano,Daniela Soto,Joshua Schmidtet al. Science, 2025, 387 (6730), ⟨10.1126/science.adn7954⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04972202v1
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 Ferrariet al. Communications Biology, 2025, 8 (1), pp.509. ⟨10.1038/s42003-025-07885-4⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05399171v1
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 Raysonet al. Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9 (8), pp.1571 - 1582. ⟨10.1038/s41562-025-02176-8⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05355013v1
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 Budingeret al. Nature Methods, 2024, 21 (6), pp.1122-1130. ⟨10.1038/s41592-024-02270-1⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782857v1
PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition Otto Brookes,Majid Mirmehdi,Colleen Stephens,Samuel Angedakin,Katherine Corogeneset al. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024, 132 (8), pp.3086-3102. ⟨10.1007/s11263-024-02003-z⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782855v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782864v1
Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees Mathieu Malherbe,Liran Samuni,Sonja Ebel,Kathrin Kopp,Catherine Crockfordet al. PLoS Biology, 2024, 22 (5), pp.e3002609. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3002609⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05399204v1
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 Behringeret al. Journal of Medical Primatology, 2024, 53 (5), ⟨10.1111/jmp.12739⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782861v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782868v1
Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees Mathieu Malherbe,Liran Samuni,Sonja Ebel,Kathrin Kopp,Catherine Crockfordet al. PLoS Biology, 2024, 22 (5), pp.e3002609. ⟨10.1371/journal.pbio.3002609⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782866v1
Functional host-specific adaptation of the intestinal microbiome in hominids M. Rühlemann,C. Bang,J. Gogarten,B. Hermes,M. Groussinet al. Nature Communications, 2024, 15 (1), pp.326. ⟨10.1038/s41467-023-44636-7⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782823v1
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment Timothy Eppley,Kim Reuter,Timothy Sefczek,Jen Tinsman,Luca Santiniet al. Conservation Letters, 2024, 17 (2), ⟨10.1111/conl.13007⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782839v1
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 Herbingeret al. International Journal of Primatology, 2024, 45 (4), pp.721-725. ⟨10.1007/s10764-024-00420-y⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782844v1
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 Wittiget al. American Journal of Primatology, 2024, 86 (8), ⟨10.1002/ajp.23652⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782851v1
Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution Angela Friederici,Roman Wittig,Alfred Anwander,Cornelius Eichner,Tobias Gräßleet al. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2024, 17, pp.1299087. ⟨10.3389/fnint.2023.1299087⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782830v1
Strontium isotopes track female dispersal in Taï chimpanzees Renee Boucher,Roman Wittig,Sylvain Lemoine,Aleksey Maro,Xueye Wanget al. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024, 184 (4), ⟨10.1002/ajpa.24981⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782849v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04304784v1
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 Zuberbühleret al. Royal Society Open Science, 2023, 10 (11), pp.231073. ⟨10.1098/rsos.231073⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04782871v1
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 Mildneret al. NeuroImage, 2023, 276, ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120202⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04304813v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04304778v1
Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology Tobias Gräßle,Catherine Crockford,Cornelius Eichner,Cédric Girard‐buttoz,Carsten Jägeret al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, 14 (8), pp.1906-1924. ⟨10.1111/2041-210x.14039⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04304794v1
Slow development of vocal sequences through ontogeny in wild chimpanzees (&lt;i&gt;Pan troglodytes verus)&lt;/i&gt; Tatiana Bortolato,Roger Mundry,Roman M Wittig,Cédric Girard‐buttoz,Catherine Crockford Developmental Science, 2022, 26 (4), pp.e13350. ⟨10.1111/desc.13350⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04304823v1
Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Emiliano Zaccarella,Tatiana Bortolato,Angela Friederici,Roman Wittiget al. Communications Biology, 2022, 5 (1), pp.410. ⟨10.1038/s42003-022-03350-8⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03875007v1
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 Deschneret al. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2022, 76 (4), pp.50. ⟨10.1007/s00265-022-03133-5⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03875031v1
Population-specific call order in chimpanzee greeting vocal sequences Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Tatiana Bortolato,Marion Laporte,Mathilde Grampp,Klaus Zuberbühleret al. iScience, 2022, 25 (9), pp.104851. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2022.104851⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03875099v1
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‐paiset al. American Journal of Primatology, 2022, 85 (1), pp.e23453. ⟨10.1002/ajp.23453⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04300264v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03875019v1
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies Samuel Ellis,Rufus Johnstone,Michael Cant,Daniel Franks,Michael Weisset al. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022, 6 (11), pp.1766-1776. ⟨10.1038/s41559-022-01872-2⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03874978v1
Maternal effects on the development of vocal communication in wild chimpanzees Aisha Bründl,Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Tatiana Bortolato,Liran Samuni,Mathilde Gramppet al. iScience, 2022, 25 (10), pp.105152. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2022.105152⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03874962v1
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-Buttozet al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, 377 (1841), pp.20200455. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2020.0455⟩ Article dans une revue (data paper) hal-05043995v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455425v1
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 Deschneret al. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2021, 75 (1), pp.1. ⟨10.1007/s00265-020-02935-9⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455902v1
Leprosy in wild chimpanzees Kimberley Hockings,Benjamin Mubemba,Charlotte Avanzi,Kamilla Pleh,Ariane Düxet al. Nature, 2021, 598 (7882), pp.652-656. ⟨10.1038/s41586-021-03968-4⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04972213v1
The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis Catherine Crockford,Fernando Colchero,José Manuel Aburto,Elizabeth A Archie,Christophe Boeschet al. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455948v1
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 Gomeset al. eLife, 2021 Article dans une revue hal-03455896v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455899v1
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 Fruthet al. Communications Biology, 2021, 4, pp.1119. ⟨10.1038/s42003-021-02641-w⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455956v1
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-Buttozet 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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455415v1
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 Wittiget al. Frontiers in Zoology, 2020, 17, pp.1. ⟨10.1186/s12983-019-0343-8⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455907v1
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 Fruthet al. Journal of Human Evolution, 2020, 147, pp.102869. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102869⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455925v1
Systematic mapping of developmental milestones in wild chimpanzees Aisha Bründl,Patrick Tkaczynski,Grégoire Nohon Kohou,Christophe Boesch,Roman Wittiget al. Developmental Science, 2020, 24 (1), pp.108090. ⟨10.1111/desc.12988⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04972210v1
Information transfer efficiency differs in wild chimpanzees and bonobos, but not social cognition Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Martin Surbeck,Liran Samuni,Patrick Tkaczynski,Christophe Boeschet al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020, 287 (1929), pp.20200523. ⟨10.1098/rspb.2020.0523⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04798133v1
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⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455432v1
Increased Sensitivity and Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Diffusion-Weighted MRI using Multi-Echo Acquisitions Cornelius Eichner,Michael Paquette,Toralf Mildner,Torsten Schlumm,Kamilla Pléhet al. NeuroImage, 2020, 221, pp.117172. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117172⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03455941v1
Vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social-cognitive processes Catherine Crockford,Roman M. Wittig,Klaus Zuberbühler Science Advances , 2017, 3 (11), pp.1701742 Article dans une revue (data paper) hal-05043669v1

Pré-publication, Document de travail (2)

Rule-based sequences in sooty mangabey vocal communication Auriane Le Floch,Cédric Girard-Buttoz,Tanit Souha Azaiez,Natacha Bande,Roman M Wittiget al. 2025 Pré-publication, Document de travail hal-05376927v1
Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox) Fabian Leendertz,Carme Riutord-Fe,Jasmin Schlotterbeck,Lorenzo Lagostina,Leonce Kouadioet al. 2025 Pré-publication, Document de travail hal-05399229v1

Communication dans un congrès (1)

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. Wittiget al. 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Mar 2022, Denver, United States. pp.19, ⟨10.1002/ajpa.24514⟩ Communication dans un congrès hal-04933595v1

Ouvrages (1)

The chimpanzees of the Tai Forest: 40 years of research Roman M. Wittig,Christophe Boesch 2019, 9781108481557 Ouvrages hal-05045040v1