Skip to content
University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews news
  • News room
  • Corporate Communications
  • Photo gallery
  • Facts and figures
  • News archive

Search by tag: catherine hobaiter

Scrumped fruit key to chimpanzee life and a major force of human evolution.

New research examines the crucial, but until now, overlooked, role of ‘scrumped’ fruit in the lives of great apes and the origins of human feasting. 

Date
31 July 2025
Category
University news

How “great” an ape are you?

Online test reveals if humans instinctively understand our closest relatives

Date
20 July 2017
Category
Research

We Are Family

Social bonds are crucial for adoption in wild chimpanzees

Date
5 August 2014
Category
Research

All in hand

Researchers work out what chimp gestures mean

Date
4 July 2014
Category
Research

Most read

Council green light for University’s flagship ‘New College’ plan St Andrews to elect new Chancellor Karen Solie wins prestigious poetry prize Bubble netting knowledge spread by immigrant humpback whales Daughters of Donbas bring powerful testimony and music to St Andrews New AI tool removes bottleneck in animal movement analysis AI model to predict neural network degeneration in ALS  Ranking success for St Andrews Arts and Humanities University of St Andrews academic supports UN disaster response St Andrews’ student crowned golf champion

Related links

  • University Events
  • Research showcase
  • University stories
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Categories

  • Awards
  • Business
  • Community
  • Covid community response
  • Covid-19
  • Events
  • Fundraising
  • Government
  • Message from the Principal
  • Public interest stories
  • Research
  • Sport
  • Student experience
  • Sustainability
  • University news

Contact us

Press Office
Corporate Communications
University of St Andrews
Bute Medical Building
Queen’s Terrace
St Andrews
KY16 9TS

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2530

© The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.

  • Cookie notice
  • Accessibility statement
  • Terms and conditions
  • Website help
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Cookie preferences