Antoine Valet

Antoine Valet is a current PhD student working under the supervision of Catherine Crockford and Roman Wittig. He is part of the Ape Social Mind Lab at the ISC CNRS, is collaborating with the Tai Chimpanzee Project, and is a part of the Evolution of Brain Connectivity Project. His main focus is the evolution of language, specifically the complexity and flexibility of chimpanzees' vocal combinatorial system. Using vocal and behavioral data, Antoine’s research aims to analyze the development and the role of context-specific variant calls in vocal sequences in wild chimpanzees from the Taï population in Côte d’Ivoire. In the past, Antoine studied the flexibility of non-vocal sounds in chimpanzees from the Tacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone, and worked for 8 months in Tai Chimpanzee Project as a field assistant. He is also a wildlife photographer.